You love reading – but can’t find the time?
Category:Education,Learning,ReadingOk – so for all of “us” who love reading but keep saying we just can’t find the time… ”
“Do you know how many books the average person reads per year?” he said. “Literally two or three, for the entire year. And yet, the average CEO is reading four or five books per month. That’s a drastic difference.”
He went on to explain how he breaks down the habit of reading for people, so that it can be a more actionable process.
I went to Amazon and looked at the medium average number of words per book, and it came out to about 64,000 words. So let’s say the average person reads 200 words per minute. We’re talking about 320 minutes to get through a book, which is about 45 minutes a day, to read a book per week. That makes it a little more realistic,” he said.
He added that 45 minutes spent reading in a day is practically nothing. That’s a lunch break, a little bit at night, maybe reading a bit on the train on the way to work, etc. And that’s without any speed-reading techniques.”
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