How would you like to read 4 books every week without speed
reading, now I know that sounds super scary, but I'm here to tell you that my
good friend Rosie Lee Dreiwitz does just that totaling two hundred books a year
dude.
I thought reading fifty books per year was good, Rosie read 16 books in February this year alone and these aren't just little fucking 26 pages Charlie Brown comics no I'm talking monsters like the 48 laws of power and even tools of titans 770 pages.
I thought reading fifty books per year was good, Rosie read 16 books in February this year alone and these aren't just little fucking 26 pages Charlie Brown comics no I'm talking monsters like the 48 laws of power and even tools of titans 770 pages.
So how can you do it
well, you need to know the three keys which I'm going to share with you now.
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- The most important key is Willingness.
- key is access.
- my personal more favorite.
- my personal more favorite.
- Understand Keith the radical perspectives.
- prepare yourself with popular contextual know-how before reading.
- Allow time after reading to process the information.
- Enjoys it.
Technique 1: The most important key is Willingness.
You have to want to
read as much as possible, yep. you have to sit down and read the bloody book
period.
Now a lot of us want
to read 200 books a year don't make reading a priority I understand though
you're busy studying for exams you're building a business or taking care of the
dog but this is the reality.
Technique 2: key is access.
Now the key to
developing a reading habit or any habit for that matter is to make it as simple
as possible, so always have a book on you like look at me man I'm going to
fucking bathtub look how many books I got around me that is access to.
So you can read in
those spare moments when people would otherwise reach for their phone on the
bus while waiting for meetings or even while driving I like to listen to an
audiobook while driving instead of absorbing the negative garbage on the radio.
You can also download
e-books to your phone with the Kindle app, I
mean everyone carries a phone on them so you will never not have a book with
you unless you have one of those Samsung Galaxy Note 8
The first two keys
are far more important than the following 7 techniques, they won't create more
time in the day but they will help you read faster and remember more.
Technique 3: My personal more favorite.
The first: practice holding your focus.
Consider the bazaar a tea of going from a nine-second
Facebook video to a full-length book, if you don't spend time on social media
and don't read much it's unrealistic to think you'll be able to read a book all
the way through with ease.
There are countless
ways to improve your focus Rosie likes to set aside time to learn French as fast
as
Possible on a daily basis you can also try meditation writing essays or
memorizing vocabulary.
She heavily praises
the books deep work by Cal Newport and the productivity project by Chris Bailey.
The second: technique cultivate relevant mental models.
Mental models are tools for rapid cognition understanding
and decision-making, check out my article on Thinking Fast and Slow which goes
into more detail one tool is the 80/20 principle understand that 80% of the
value in books comes from 20% of the information.
Particularly the
title blurb content the first chapter the last chapter and the first and last
paragraphs of each section, confirmation bias is another tool I'm acutely aware
of now this is your tendency to seek information that confirms your existing
beliefs and to ignore evidence that goes against it if you're not aware of this
this makes you closed-minded.
You sacrifice
standing near insights and perspectives, because you hold on too tightly to
pre-existing notions, this is why I'm equally likely to read The God Delusion and the Quran,
the Quran the cool.
The Kwan's the Quin on my quest for living an ultra spiritual life, rosy lists
other tools she uses like Occam's razor normal distribution survivorship bias
and more, check out our blog post for the full rundown.
Technique 4: Understand Keith the radical perspectives.
Understand feminism,
colonialism, structuralism and Marxism, it's also helpful to understand
ideology symbolism narrative and communication, these are like lenses and
through which you read that completely transform what you absorb.
It can mean the
difference between writing a book one star and five stars, to make it simple
take a walk pick out a random site and apply a theory to it.
Technique 5: Stay with us stop overloading your brain with information.
unless you're reading
a book treat your ability to focus on reading as a sacred ritual for Rosie this
means not watching TV never playing games and spending minimal time on social
media news feeds.
Technique 6: Prepare yourself with popular contextual know-how before reading.
This is my favorite
it speeds up your comprehension before you purchase a new phone you likely ask
your friends what they think if they have the same one.
Chances are you also
look at reviews and have an impression of the brand that creates the phone.
Now I suppose you
know I was going to make a joke about the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 sudden but nothing came to mind dude.
The same should be
applied to books I usually read book reviews on Goodreads.com
and Google the author before diving into
a book but one time I forgot to do this.
I read the
bulletproof diet by Dave Asprey and I thought it was the most amazing book ever,
but because I didn't do any initial research, I didn't realize he'd been
exposed by Joe Rogan yes our man Joe Rogan for stating false facts about
mycotoxins in his trademarked coffee which I was chugging down every day.
I now view the rest
of the information in this book with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Technique 7: Allow time after reading to process the information.
You could listen to
an audiobook while running on
the treadmill at the gym, so it's known as to why you do that but it was just an
example then reflect on what you read during the drive home.
Technique 8: Enjoys it.
This is extremely important people always ask me what are the best books
I should read Brandon well I used to recommend the stables like how to win
friends and influence people.
But now I say read what interests
you, don't force yourself to read something even hey you're 10 times more
likely to get through a book and remember more if you actually enjoy it.
Thank you for your attention guys
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