Read With Purpose: What I learned After 500+ Hours of Reading

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Reading teaches you to live boldly.

It teaches you to reject what you don’t need. And to live the life you want.

Without it, it’s hard to pick your own path (the authentic one).

Not because you’ll lack knowledge.

But because of something different.

Something that most readers don’t do.

Highlighting.

If you are a reader, you need to pick ideas out of what you read.

Here’s the trick

You can’t remember everything in a book.

This means you have to choose what’s important.

Try this next time you read: pick one or two ideas out of what you read and try to remember them.

The trick is to focus on a few ideas. When you have those few ideas, you’ll be able to implement them into your life and incorporate them into who you are.

- Scan for the best.

- Highlight the best.

- Use the best.

Reading is useful, but not because of knowledge

In life, you’ll need to make sacrifices.

But in making a sacrifice you’ll face uncertainty.

The thing with reading is that you never know which chapter will have the biggest impact on you.

You need to guess.

Reading will force you to reject information that could help you.

In this way, it helps you make though choices. The book is practice for life.

There are only a few lucky sentences that you can keep. And so you need to chose them carefully.

And when you’ll need to make a hard decision is real life, it’ll be that much easier.

You’ll have a lot of practice before you.

Because having wisdom is nice, but what do you do with it?

Keep these ideas close to your heart.

Note them. Write them.

In the notes app on your phone, in the book, on the wall.

And everytime you need a reminder, go check it. Repetition will anchor the info in your memory.

Then, act as closely as possible with the new information.

And one day, with both memory and acts,

it will become part of who you are.

That’s how you gain the skills necessary for life.


Reading can teach you

How to reject the extra fluff in your life

How to apply and use information productively

So there’s really 0 reasons not to use the ideas you read.

Starting with this text. :)

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