QUESTION: How to read more books?
Answer
Reading a large number of books is a useful habit that can be developed through proper organization of your daily routine and changing everyday habits. To make reading a regular part of your life, you should implement several proven practices.
•Read every day without exception, allocating at least twenty minutes of uninterrupted time for this during morning or evening hours.
•Always carry a paper or e-book with you to use every free minute in line, transport, or while waiting for a meeting.
•Boldly abandon boring books that are hard to get through, using the fifty-page rule to evaluate the engagingness of the work.
•Alternate different formats of information consumption, including audiobooks during runs, cleaning, or driving a car.
•Keep a personal list of read books in services like Goodreads to visually see your progress and motivate yourself for new goals.
•Consciously replace the habit of scrolling through social media feeds before bed with reading paper or electronic literature.
•Do not chase blind quantitative metrics of read volumes, since the depth of material comprehension and the practical benefit from what you have read are much more important.
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