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NEVER STOP LEARNING
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Publish date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018, 03:13 PM
NEVER STOP LEARNING
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4 It’s that time of year when folks enjoy making wish lists and New Year’s resolutions. For some, the holiday break is a chance to enjoy a book or two they’ve been too busy to read. Here are tips on how to boost your reading skills so that you can finally get through that pile of books sitting on your nightstand.
Make reading a priority. The average person reads only two or three books a year, says Jim Kwik, the founder and CEO of Kwik Learning. Kwik overcame a traumatic brain injury as a child to become a memory and speed-reading expert.
Kwik, whose podcast is a consistent leader among training shows on iTunes, says even the busiest CEOs make time to read. The average CEO reads four or five books a month
“Readers are leaders,” Kwik told. “Schedule your reading; if you don’t schedule it, it won’t happen.”
Microsoft’sMSFT Bill Gates is a voracious reader. He reportedly reads a book a week. Kwik says Gates likes to do his weekly reading in one sitting. Others schedule shorter sessions, like an hour a day.
Berkshire HathawayBRKB CEO Warren Buffett has said reading 500 pages a day is a key to success. It doesn’t have to be an entire book. It should be high-quality material, though.
Improve your reading skills. “If knowledge is power, reading is a superpower,” Kwik told. “Reading is not a skill we’re born with. We have to train.”
Kwik, who has coached some of the best-known CEOs and largest companies on reading skills, including Alphabet’sGOOGL Google, Zappos and NikeNKE , says one of the biggest obstacles to reading efficiently is lack of confidence.
“Learned helplessness and telling yourself I’m a poor reader,” Kwik says, are self-fulfilling prophecies.
On a technical level, subvocalizing (saying words in your head while reading) is one of the main reasons people read slowly, Kwik says.
So this year, take action for personal improvement. Get help from a reading coach to improve your reading skills, peruse the annual book lists and treat yourself to a few favorites.
“Reading is the best cognitive exercise,” Kwik said. “Reading faster makes you focus better, think clearer, and remember and understand more.”
Track your interests. “Keep an active book list,” Kwik said. “Update it regularly.”
Old favorites that keep appearing on the reading lists of business leaders are: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari and “Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action,” by Simon Simek.
Top 2018 nonfiction picks include: “American Prison” by Shane Bauer and “Silicon States” by Lucie Greene.
Biographies are always popular. Among this year’s most-read is “Educated,” by Tara Westover, who was raised in a survivalist family in Idaho but managed to break free from her past to become an Oxford scholar — while coming to terms with her upbringing.
Another favorite is “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson. More than just another recounting of the famous artist’s life, Isaacson delves into da Vinci’s scientific accomplishments, too, and shows how his genius was based on skills that readers can emulate, like careful observation and curiosity.
A short but powerful read is “A River In Darkness,” by Masaji Ishikawa, which follows the author’s bittersweet escape from North Korea. And “Monsoon Mansion,” by Cinelle Barnes, is a memoir of the author’s life in the Philippines as she descends into poverty after living in affluence.
Kwik says reading fiction is important, too. It sparks “creativity and imagination,” he said.
Topping many 2018 reading lists is “An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones, which tells the story of how a wrongful conviction affects a young African-American couple. Another top pick is “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje, which follows the life of two teenagers whose parents abandon them in London near the end of World War II.
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