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Choosing Your Next Book
Are you making the most of your reading time?
It turns out that most of the time the best way to improve your Reading Return on Invested Time (RROIT) is to carefully filter the books you read.
If you’re wondering what to read, here are two simple ideas that we can combine to help us choose what to read next.
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Time Can Predict Value
What has been will continue to be. Something that is not fading away is here to stay.
The nonperishable is anything that does not have organic or avoidable expiration dates.
While produce and humans have a mathematical life expectancy that decreases with each day, some things, like bo...
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Understanding Time-Tested Ideas
Focus on reading basic ideas that have stood the test of time as a means to understand them better.
Knowledge has a half-life. The most useful knowledge is a broad-based multidisciplinary education of the basics. These ideas are ones that have lasted, and thus will last, for a long time.
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Acquire The Basic Mental Models
The multidisciplinary mind understands the basic ideas. Acquiring the basic mental models from multiple disciplines allows you to see things that other people can’t.
You don’t need to understand the latest study in biology, but you sure as heck better understand the concept of evolution be...
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Understanding Deeply
Get back to basics.
Understanding the basics, as boring as it sounds, is one of the key elements of effective thinking. A lot of people assume the basics are not important and never really take the time to learn them, preferring the sexiness of complexity. Understanding a ...
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A book club is a reading group who read and talk about books based on a topic or an agreed-upon reading list.
The book club can meet monthly. That will give members enough time to read the book, think about key ideas, and prepare for the meeting.
Choosing what to read
- If a book has been around for a long time and people still talk about it, it’s probably good.
- Read the first chapter without the obligation to continue. If you’re not having fun, it’s time to move on.
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