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how to read a book a day just like what the title says.
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So, let me explain. I love to read,
I read every single day. And there's so many books
that I would love to read
and I just know that I will never get to in my lifetime
because there are just way too many books.
This thought is overwhelming,
I just want the information to be injected into my brain.
So, the day that that is possible
then I will reach my full potential and happy.
I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore.
I am going to teach you how I read a little bit
of every book every single day
and just average it out to reading a book a day.
The first one is something that might seem a little bit obvious
but it is learn how to speed read.
So, this is where you are reading
and normally what people do is one word,
you are reading soles and eels, of course,
the Gryphon replied, this Alice in Wonderland by the way,
so, it might get weird.
That is how most people read.
So, what you're gonna do is, you're gonna actually learn
how to use your peripheral vision.
If you are looking at a room you will notice
that you can see everything all at once.
Right now I am looking straight into the camera
but I can see my guitar over here,
I can see a plant, I can see a pillow,
I can actually see all the way in this angle over here,
I see my lamp which I'm using as my back light.
This is my peripheral vision,
I can take in a lot at a time.
You'll be using your peripheral vision to take in the full sentence.
I'm not gonna get into this into this particular video,
there are a lot of videos that will teach you how to speed read.
There's actually a really great video from Tim Ferriss
where he breaks it down, it's a long video,
I'm gonna put a link to that so that you guys can go check it out
and learn from him because he did an amazing video
and it's much better than what I'm gonna do.
Next up, we have audio books.
If you want to read and feel like you aren't able
to do the speed reading thing
or maybe you have some kind of disability
that makes it difficult for you to read,
then audiobooks an amazing option,
you're able to do it while you are doing mundane tasks,
like cooking or cleaning.
I listen to audio books all day every day.
If I am going to go walking somewhere
and I know it's a 10 minute walk,
boom, I just got 10 minutes of my book in my brain.
For my audiobooks
I like to use a little website called audible
if you guys haven't heard of it then you should check it out
because for a monthly subscription
you can actually get an audiobook and it is awesome,
they've got sales all of the time
and they have created lists.
So, I'm always finding out about books
do I need to find out about more books
that I don't have the time to read?
I don't know.
But if you want to try the whole audible thing
then I have a link that will let you guys try audible for free for 30 days,
it includes two free audiobooks.
So, I'm getting you guys the deals over here.
If you're on a budget
and don't want to do the whole pain thing to get the audio book
then look into your Public Library.
My Public Library offers audiobooks,
I can actually go onto their website
and check out a book and download it
and just pop it onto my phone,
that is 100% free
because it is part of the Public Library System.
Definitely check out your Public Library
and see if that's something that they offer.
By the way, I'm just gonna mention that this video does have affiliate links
and what that means is, if you decide to buy something
or try something out
then I will get a little bit of that
and that will help me to buy some tea and some biscuits
and maybe some books.
This next one might be considered cheating for some of you
but I feel like I need to tell you about it
because...
So, there is this website, this app called Blinkist,
what Blinkist does is it takes the most important parts
of nonfiction books,
creates a summarized version of it
both reading and audiobook
and you can listen to it in maybe 15-20 minutes
and you kind of get the gist of the book.
That does not count as a full book.
If there is a book that you're kind of interested in
but don't know if you want to invest the time in reading the full book,
you can check out Blinkist, read the book there.
It also comes in handy with certain books
that are just case studies,
because maybe you don't want to read 50k studies,
they're basically telling you to do the same thing,
I actually found books through Blinkist
that I read and I decided that I wanted
to read the full book.
They have a free version and a paid version.
On the free version you have access to a free book
that they provide and they select every single day.
If you are on a budget and don't mind
what you are reading,
then this is a great option for you
but I definitely recommend going on to the subscription based service
because they will actually let you highlight different things
that you find interesting
and you can sync that over to your Evernote
and you can have notebooks with your notes that you take.
If you want to check out Blinkist,
the link is gonna be in the description of this video.
My last tip for reading a book a day is to read one hour
before you go to sleep.
You should read a fiction book, something that will relax you
and maybe not inspire you too much.
If you read a nonfiction book
then you're gonna start getting your ears rolling
and that's gonna make it a little bit difficult for you to sleep,
at least that's something that I've run into.
I've read stuff before sleeping
and I'm just like, Oh, I just want to wake up
so that I can start working on this thing that I just learned in this book.
That's probably not a good thing.
This is also a really great way to get a little bit of time
away from screen time.
I know that a lot of you guys know
'cause you guys are super smart.
Screen time before bed is not good for you,
it'll probably affects your sleeping,
especially if you're just lying in bed
and all you're doing is swiping through social media posts.
And it's a lot of information to take before you go to sleep.
I recommend an hour before sleep, no phones, no screens,
no social media, no texting, and you just read,
read until you fall asleep instead of looking at your phone.
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By the way, if you guys need some book recommendations.
Alice in Wonderland is my favorite book of all time.
If you want to do the audiobook version,
there is this amazing audio book on audible
I love falling asleep to it, it's just,
the narration is so, so good.
I'm gonna put a link to it so that you guys can get all that information
if you guys want to check it out
and maybe fall asleep listening to that as well.
You want some more book recommendations
then head over to my red site, my red site
which is red romina.com
I actually have the page there with resources,
different apps that I use, including books that I recommend.
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