How to read infinitely more books

This video is all about how I learned to read more books. It's a busy world out there and reading isn't always top priority, but whether you want to read 100 books a year, or just want to read more than you do now, there's a simple way. Bring back the fun of it. Whether you're into self-improvement books, non-fiction or fiction books, I dig into some key steps to make reading fun again and embed it into your daily life. So if you want to know how to read more books than ever before, this one is for you! 📚

[rafaelribeiro]

List of books he recommended:

. Black box thinking - Matthew Syed
. Atomic Habits - James Clear
. The Happy Brain - Dean Burnett
. Notes on a nervous Planet - Matt Haig
. Scary Smart - Mo Gawdat.

[Hansel]

I only read fiction. I'm fed up of all the nonfiction out there and everyone out there writing a book telling you how to live. I have a very stressful job as a Pharmacist and life is very stressful with all that's going on in the world plus the struggles of daily life. Fiction is the only joy I have. I love cracking open a book that takes me away into a fun, mysterious, exciting story 😀

[alh]

Three keys to success:
1. Read
2. Read
3. Read

[birupandaa]

Actually useful. Its funny how most of us started reading from self help, like litearally everyone I know started with Self Help LOL. Anyways, then I found my kind of books - The Silent Patient, Six Of Crows, The Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy, Man called Ove, Good Girls Guide To Murder, etc. Recently got into some books like Meeting The Shadow. You're right. You've to read the things that you find interesting. At first I was overhwhelmed by the list of book I HAD TO READ like Oh God, so much. Now it's the opposite whenever I find some interesting book and add to to my list I'm excited like - OMG I've so much to read!! Cheers buddy!

[alanmarsh]

Yep, couldn't agree more! Listening to this was like you just slapped me in my face and vocalised a long repressed feeling!

[vloggerarslan]

Great video, and I definitely agree with you! I noticed that when you force yourself to read something it feels more of like a chore and our brain just doesn't like that. Rather, when we read things we enjoy, our brain will be more engaged and that will cause us to want to read even more :D

[marathonrunner]

Great advice! Harry Potter is one of my favorites as well and I always come back to it for a re-read. One summer in college, I read the entire series in a week and that was my springboard into a lifetime of reading.

[MikeHunt-fxrg]

I’ll usually do a non fiction book and a fiction book at the same time and switch off. What I’ve come to realize with non fiction books especially ones you’d consider self help is to focus on the main points and cut through the fluff. You don’t have to read every word to grasp the authors key concepts. Feel free to skip around and focus on the parts That are meaningful to you.

[arandiasjournal]

Love the way you story tell, thanks for the tip, definitely keeping that in mind while I go shopping for books today :)

[danhannah]

I don't read much, and I read even less fiction, but I do agree about mixing in some fiction with non-fiction, makes reading feel much lighter sometimes a good story that gets you reading 30 or 50+ pages in a sitting will help you massively with the non-fiction.

I think I learned more about myself from John Niven's Kill Your Friends or Murakami's Men Without Women (Chapter 3) than I did from most non-fiction I've read

[valala]

Pretty good video. What is the point in reading if you don't enjoy it? Reading fiction, no matter what kind, gives us the ability to experience things we never have or never could experience in our own lives. It's such an entertaining way to actually learn new things about ourselves and the world around us. I think books, no matter if fiction or non-fiction, don't always have to teach us useful knowledge. Instead of slogging through a library worth of self help books, entrepreneur biographies and productivity manuals why not just learn something useless for fun? Anything from literary classics, philosophical masterpieces and academic texts to YA, fantasy, sci-fi and knitting manuals are worth a try. The only prerequisite is, like you said, that you actually want to read it. Sometimes it's better to just turn off social media and go to your local library or book store and pick whatever catches your eye.

[GabeAmely]

Awesome Video man. The similarities between us is quite intriguing. Like you I grew up on the Harry Potter series and was just obsessed. As I aged of course reading wasn't "cool" none of my friends were talking about reading or books period. After a long hiatus from reading I too found my way back with the Harry Potter series and have since rekindled my love for reading and stories in general, being able to explore different worlds and ideas through books is such an incredible experience and one that I hope to pass on to my children. Keep it up man loved the vid.

[randallwest]

I love reading history. A lot of it is really stranger than fiction.

[im_just_vidu]

Fitting the habit into the daily routine is the best thing that I did. Cuz reading is a part of my life

[neorich]

I've always read. Having a Kindle helps. Recently, I've read a few books that I've tried to "force" and agreed, it's not easy to finish them. Like you, I've gone back to read a few books that I've read before, such as Maupin's "Tales of The City." I'm reading one a month (they have very short chapters, which helps) and interspersing that with other books! Love biographies!

[folksurvival]

I recommend the essay On Books and Reading by Arthur Schopenhauer.

[PandemoniumGameDev]

Good stuff, I usually don't watch videos like these, but I really enjoyed this one. Also thanks for the recommendations!

[ReadingAdam]

We've had a similar journey except I tried to read a lot of history and literature to prepare for teaching (which never happened). Now I read fast or slow, I'll stop something for ages then pick it up again, I'll have 1-20 books going at a time, but most recently I've fallen in love with rereading.

[mejulian]

Very good. I read mostly fiction, and probably one self-improvement book every couple of years. I feel they have good value, but I can get most of it out of the articles written about them, e.g. the Power of Habit. We are all different, so we have different paths to self improvement.

[InstaOmry]

Great ideas, and dont worry about stopping a book you dont like.
Life is more about saying no to stuff than saying yes.