I am barely literate these days. :)
Personally, I haven't read that much around what I write about as I am a terrible student. Most of my view is from experience and spending time thinking about it. I should probably do some more reading, but I also want to think my own thoughts rather than onboard the ideas from others who are much smarter than me. Silly perhaps, but I would prefer to discover I am wrong, than be thoughtlessly right - if that makes sense.