In 2015 a buddy of mine basically shoved Elantris, Way of Kings, and Words of Radiance at me and said "You gotta read some Sanderson, he's the next big guy in fantasy." I started with Elantris and really enjoyed it, but admit that I was intimidated by how chonky Stormlight was and so they gathered dust for the next 5 years.
When 2020 rolled around, I had a lot of free time and decided to finally give Sanderson another try and picked up Era 1 of Mistborn instead of Stormlight to ease into the Cosmere and instantly fell in love. That was pretty much the jumping off point because I then went right into Stormlight (which have since become my favorite books of all time) and after that I went and read everything else in the Cosmere. It even pushed me to read Wheel of Time which I finished at the end of last year and had a blast reading (I didn't think the infamous slog was that bad tbh). So here I am waiting for SP3 to come out so I can get my fix of more Sanderson...