Improvement Pill here how to read a book a week? As cliche as it sounds we
all know that people who read succeed I mean look at the numbers eighty-five
percent of millionaires read at least two books per month while 25 percent of
the entire American population hasn't even read a single book all of last year
so what's the best way to actually get yourself to start reading and at a good
pace so that you can succeed too well you can basically guarantee that you'll
read a book a week by taking advantage of three psychological tricks the first
is something called implementation intention basically setting an
appointment see the biggest problem when it comes to reading is actually getting
started so many people buy books that they're interested in and say to
themselves oh I'll definitely read this and guess what the book just sits there
on their shelf never to be touched again by physically writing down the time and
place of when you'll start reading a book you're essentially setting up an
appointment to do so and think about it we don't really miss our appointments
when was the last time you completely skip a job interview or a visit to your
doctor sure you might have been late but when you set an appointment you know
that you have to show up and you usually do
the second psychological trick - reading a book a week is to use what's called
chunking basically breaking down a big task into smaller ones one of the main
reasons people start reading books and never finish is because the task seems
way too big it feels like we can't do it just take a look at the average
non-fiction book which is about 200 pages long how long do you think it
takes to read that entire thing in one sitting you're probably thinking 1015
hours maybe well in reality the average human can read a 200-page book in about
five hours which means you really only have to spend 45 minutes a day reading
which probably accounts to just a chapter or two so instead of saying okay
I'm gonna read tomorrow right out of lunch at home it's much more effective
to say okay I'll read the next chapter tomorrow after lunch at home when you
break down a book - its chapters and even further - its subsections which
most nonfiction books have then your brain will no longer see it as a huge
obstacle that you have to overcome instead of thinking oh my god this is
gonna take forever you'll think ah that's easy I can definitely do that and
finally the last psychological trick to reading a book a week is to use what's
called temptation bundling basically taking a task that you don't enjoy that
much and it's touching it to something that you really
really enjoy for example you can tell yourself that after every chapter or
subsection of a chapter you read you're gonna reward yourself with the
next episode or the next segment of that TV show you love watching by doing this
just a couple of times it will actually start to feel good to read because your
brain will start to associate it with something very pleasurable it's gonna
think wow every time I read a chapter or subsection I feel great after now what
you might find is that you actually start to read more chapters than you
need by combining all of these three tricks you'll end up with something like
this okay tomorrow after lunch at home I'll read the next chapter of my book
and for every chapter I read I get to watch the next segment of the new
episode of Game of Thrones try this out and I guarantee that you'll find
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one of the books I recommend you guys to listen to is high-performance habits by
Brendon Burchard which talks about six very powerful habits that will change
your life trust me it's a very interesting read
besides that guys stay tuned