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This taught me that reading one idea, in one book, at the right time, in the proper context, has a much greater impact than reading ten books at an unrelated time.
“In the world of 7-billion people combined with increasing complexity, the pace of the learning is growing so rapidly that the greatest skill you can have is the ability to get through the materials quickly.”
Tai Lopez is right. In this increasingly complicated world, the greatest skill is to absorb knowledge as quickly as possible.
A physical book is preferable to an e-book. However, if you are reading an e-book, ensure your reading device allows the capturing of notes and bookmarking.
when you annotate the book and choose the most relevant chapter to read that will address the one big question that you seek an answer to.
“building your reading habit around your situation, goal, and available cognition,” encapsulates the whole process from start to finish.
“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do,”
“What book do you recommend I read?” It’s a dangerous question.
Often, people unintentionally give recommendation without knowing much about the asker’s true motive.
Not having any reading activity is unwise. But reading the wrong book is even worse.
I would rather not read any book than read the wrong book.
All of that advice and knowledge are all correct; we are all on the same map—just in different places.
Once an act of commitment is made, there is a natural tendency to behave in ways that are stubbornly consistent with the stand; and it can bias us toward subsequent consistent choices.
A single book typically has one or two key points, covered in one or two chapters. As long as you can grab those points, the book is worth its price.
Your goal should be the driver of your reading. It should guide you in making the decision about which chapters you read, rather than letting the commitment bias take over, causing you to read the whole book.
SELECTIVE FOCUS
selective focus.
Selective focus is the practice of choosing the right book to read. Selective focus is achieved by being aware of and following two ideas. First, you need to know your strengths, weaknesses, and current situation. Then, you focus all your energy on solving your number one problem by leveraging your strengths.
If you are at a stage of insecure or weak finance, avoid reading a book about thinking big and following your passion.
Read a book to learn how to achieve high performance, how to motivate yourself to work hard, and how to stabilize your finances.
You can’t think big when your stom...
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(1) What’s the ONE THING I can do, (2) such that by doing it, (3) everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
What I have learned is to make sure I carefully choose whom I want to spend time with.
I’d
rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
The second component of deliberated reading is not volume, but repetition.
list of books you have read and a list that you wish to read.
Those two books represent two buddies of yours, “tactics” and “philosophy.”
classics, how-to, “tactics” books, and autobiographies and biographies.
Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of Start, Richard Koch’s The All-Day Energy Diet and The 80/20 Principle, and Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. 3.
your reading will benefit from being balanced between tactics, philosophy, and modeling.
Tim Ferris, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, reads fiction as a way to defuse his mind away from being productive and pragmatic (left brain) before bed. By switching to a relaxed state, your sleep can come to you more easily and get deeper. Autobiographies and biographies could offer a similar effect.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Successful people compile and maintain their master list of topics and principles.
The most dramatic change in our global knowledge is about to occur between 2016 and 2020. Three to five billion learners, people who have never created or consumed any digital information, are about to go online and provide a mega-surge to the available global knowledge.
But in 2020, we expect the entire world will be connected, meaning, more than 7 billion people will get online,
The implication of 7+ billion connected minds is staggering.
