How to Read More: Reasons and Strategies to Read More Books - RyanHoliday.net

• One is not really educated if the habit of reading is absent from their lives.
• To not avail yourself of the treasure of knowledge is stupid.
• To not take advice and valuable lessons and not apply them in your profession is often a costly mistake.

Our problems seem special and insurmountable, but they are petty and common. Most of them are already solved in the various books around us.

Reading is a conversation with the greatest people: Books are our conversations with Shakespeare, Lincoln, Einstein, and many others we wish to speak with. They are waiting for us, even after death, to sit and have a dialogue.

• All leaders have to be good readers, not to impress people, but to be better at their role.
• The knowledge that makes us better is worth knowing.
• One does not have 20 lifetimes to do trail and error with life, and needs to stand on the shoulder of giants.

1. Read first thing in the morning: Avoid social media and pick a good book.
2. Read without haste or hurry, maybe just a page a day.
3. Have a book with you always, and read while to commute or eat.
4. Read while you relax to nourish your brain.
5. Find a repository of ideas, quotes, anecdotes or observations, or make one.
6. Read great books from the masters again and again: They change shape and colour, impacting your mind in different ways as you grow.
7. Understand that you have ample time to read. If you don’t have time, you need to read why.