My Book Reading Fast (85)

This episode explores the new approach to reading books I adopted in July of 2019. Since then I have completed less than five books, a time period during which I would have probably completed twice as many. The goal is to go deeper on a select number of meaningful books and implement the ideas in those books instead of trying to read as many books as possible. Highlights * Creating Your Life with Love with Gary Mahler * About half way through Gary shares how few books he reads these days and why * Reading as a form of mindless consumption * My reading rules and the conscious approach I’m taking to what I’m reading * The four books I’m focused at the moment of this recording * Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich * The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute * More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking by Nancy Kline * Living Service: The Journey of a Prosperous Coach by Melissa Ford * Free of the need to “read the latest” and keep up * Insights can come from stillness vs. consumption * Questions and challenges * What’s your story about your reading and consumption? * Is it serving you? * Is it taking you to where you want to go? * Would it be worthwhile to try this experiment yourself? Credits * Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund * Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod * Original photo source All songs licensed under Creative Commons