85: My Book Reading Fast

This episode explores the new approach to reading books I adopted in July of 2019. Since then I have completed less than five books, a time period during which I would have probably completed twice as many.

The goal is to go deeper on a select number of meaningful books and implement the ideas in those books instead of trying to read as many books as possible.

Highlights

• Creating Your Life with Love with Gary Mahler
  • About half way through Gary shares how few books he reads these days and why
• Reading as a form of mindless consumption
• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• My reading rules and the conscious approach I’m taking to what I’m reading
• The four books I’m focused at the moment of this recording
  • Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
  • The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
  • More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking by Nancy Kline
  • Living Service: The Journey of a Prosperous Coach by Melissa Ford
• Free of the need to “read the latest” and keep up
• Insights can come from stillness vs. consumption
• Questions and challenges
  • What’s your story about your reading and consumption?
    • Is it serving you?
    • Is it taking you to where you want to go?
  • Would it be worthwhile to try this experiment yourself?

Credits

• Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
• Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod
• Original photo source

All songs licensed under Creative Commons

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