13 Tips for Getting More Reading Done.
Gretchen Rubin
6x NYT Bestselling Author | Host of the "Happier with Gretchen Rubin" Podcast | Pre-order "Secrets of Adulthood," out April 1st
Reading is an essential part of my work. It forms an important part to my social life. And far more important, reading is my favorite thing to do, by a long shot. I’m not a well-rounded person.
But reading takes time, and there aren’t many days when I can read as much as I’d like. Here are some habits that I’ve adopted to help me get more good reading done.
Maybe you don’t love to read, so finding more time to read isn’t a challenge for you. The larger point is to make sure you’re finding time to do whatever it is that you find fun. Having fun is important to having a happy life, yet it’s all too easy for fun to get pushed aside by other priorities. I have to be careful to make time for reading, or, even though I love to read, I might neglect it.
I've changed many of my habits to read more. To learn more about that, and how to change your own habits, read my book Better Than Before.
If this list appeals to you, check out Daniel Pennac’s The 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader.
Have you found any good strategies to find more time to read – or to do whatever it is you find fun?
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Gretchen Rubin is the author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She writes about happiness and habit-formation (the subject of her next book, Better Than Before) at gretchenrubin.com. Follow her here by clicking the yellow FOLLOW button, on Twitter, @gretchenrubin, on Facebook, facebook.com/GretchenRubin
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9 年I am so happy someone took time to write this article. Your next can be "More than 13 Tips for Getting More Reading Done" ;-)
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10 年Thank you, Gretchen. It is good to know that I am not the only one who wishes he read more. I love to do it, I get great pleasure from it, but I find it easy to neglect it....perhaps for those very reasons: our society seems to be developing a culture of denying ourselves the things we love and which bring us pleasure on the notion that we should be doing more "productive" things instead. I will use some of your tips to change that notion in myself and hopefully society can change too ... I'll be the first drop in the ocean.
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10 年Great tips. Reading is the key to knowledge as in reading lies knowledge. Reading is fun. Good reading skills are developed when one approaches reading with fun, interest and excitement.If reading is seen as fun then more knowledge will be gained in less time and no book or article will be considered boring or hard to read as your reading skills will allow you to quickly extract the important ideas( sense from the nonsense).
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10 年He who LEADS READS. How do you become the Best of anything find out who is now the best and do better than him. You can not do that ynless you Read. GOYEVO.NET