- These are the books that I am reading this week.
You see, readers are leaders and leaders are readers.
I have so many fans asking me how do I read so much
and how to improve my reading speed.
You see, one of the things I did early on in my career,
at a very young age, I actually took a speed reading course,
and it's helped me tremendously.
Now it's very interesting because I made a number
of videos on this, you can see sometimes
the ignorance of social media,
I have actually saw comments from some people,
they say, oh, Dan, I thought you said, you know,
don't read books, and then they say how come
you're now talking about reading books?
They actually have not watched my videos.
The thumbnail says don't read books.
But in the video itself I talked about I use books,
I don't just read books.
But they haven't even watched the video, right?
That's how ignorant most people are.
Anyway, side story.
Tip number one, when you're reading a lot of books,
you don't just wanna read books,
if you're reading non-fiction you wanna use books
meaning you're not trying to memorize everything
that the author is talking about.
One of the very first tip,
and one of the most important tips I could give you
when it comes to books is you wanna use books
because knowledge is one thing,
what you wanna do is take what's in here,
understand it, and then be able
to implement it and get a result.
It's a very, it's not a contest of memorization.
It's a contest for execution implementation.
So every time I read a book my goal is
to want to get three ideas out of each book
that I could implement right away.
That's it.
I'm not trying to implement everything
the author talked about.
I'm asking, I'm looking for just three things
that I could get out of it.
That is it.
I want to implement, I want to see how it works
for me personally and what I could learn from that.
So number one, don't read books, use books.
Number two, one of the strategies
in the speed reading course that I learned from
is when you are reading use your finger.
Use your finger to trace.
So instead of reading this way, right,
with your eye balls, when you use your finger
you're actually training your eyeballs
to be able to read faster.
So when I read I'll do something like this.
Right, then I flip.
(light upbeat music)
That's kind of the reading speed.
This is how I can go through,
I'm very, very, very busy I will do one book a week, right?
A few months ago I was very busy,
I didn't have time to read,
now, it's, I have more breathing room
so now I can go through two, three, four books a week.
Sometimes five, six books a week if I feel like it.
If I have one full day I can go through this in a day.
Probably three, four books in a day, right?
Extract two, three ideas.
That's activity number two.
So use your finger to trace.
The third thing you could do,
which is a pretty neat trick
that if the book is relatively new, like this book,
this book is, you know, about Disney,
about Walt Disney, and this would be an older book,
so it doesn't have Audible,
but newer books that has Audible,
what I would recommend as a cool little trick,
that you get the physical version of it
as well as the Audible version of it,
then when you're reading the book
you actually play the Audible, the audio book
at 1.25, or 1.5 speed, so you're playing it,
and you're also reading the same time.
What it does is it helps with your retention.
At the same time you're learning how to read faster
because you're speeding up with the Audible, right?
And you will learn a lot more.
You will actually learn a lot more.
So that's a very nice little trick
that you could do to be able to improve your reading speed.
And the last tip I have for you is the more
you read the faster you read.
Because, let's say if this is the first
time you are reading a marketing book
it would feel overwhelmed, you're not so sure,
by the time you're like myself,
I've read hundreds and hundreds of marketing books
and advertising books,
you will see a lot of patterns that are very similar.
So that in my mind I could already skip those things,
I already know it.
So I'm looking for things I might not know
that I might overlook so that I'll be able to go through,
let's say a book, I can go through a table of content,
yep, I already know that, I've heard of that before,
don't need it, don't need it,
I'm already doing it, don't need it,
so as I'm going through it, then I'll be able to see,
oh here's a chapter that I never thought of,
something that I could use before.
So here's something I could take out of it
and I could use it.
I, sometimes, don't even read through the entire book.
If when I get to chapter, let's say chapter five,
I already have my three ideas,
what I would do is I would close the book,
I would go implement the book and put it away.
Sometimes I would come back to revisit a book,
this is why I reread books in a couple months.
Sometimes I don't even come back and revisit the book,
I've implemented those three ideas
and I'm reading something else.
But you see patterns when you read enough.
So it is a habit.
It's no good to just read one book
and then you stop, or here's a great book
and then you stop.
It's like I get the questions all the time where,
oh what book should I read?
All of them.
Because if you're looking for that magical one book
that will change your life, no,
read my book, read everybody else's books.
Learn from it.
Have the habit of reading.
The books that you don't read can't help you.
Period, right?
And if someone spent their lifetime spending years
putting everything they know, decades of knowledge
into a few hundred pages and you can get it for 10, $20,
I mean it is a bargain, it is a bargain, right?
And nowadays, people don't read anymore,
people are even too lazy to watch a YouTube video.
They just watch the thumbnail,
they see the thumbnail and they thought
they've watched the video.
Unfortunately that's where we're at
in terms of our society.
However, if you do read,
if you just read a book a month,
12 books a year, it would give you a huge,
huge advantage, unfair advantage,
over everybody else.
So comment below if this makes sense.
Tell me what are some of the books you're gonna read,
and use, right?
And what are some of the new habits
you are going to develop when I comes to reading.