I challenged myself a while ago to read 3 books a day, not a classic read in any measure, but effective in a sense. I decided to make my challenge public so that I, maybe, find myself confined to do this every day as I do slack at times.
I run some other series for my own personal use that I am thinking of publishing in the future, depending on how this is received and I really hope you get something from this series as I found them to be highly valuable to me and my future self.
The other series I am running on my own are "3 business ideas weekly series", "bookmark daily crunch" and "3 blog article ideas daily".
If anyone wonders what I am talking about with 3 books a day, it's not my idea. I picked up this habit by joining Tai Lopez's academy. It's not for everyone, but the 69 steps certainly feel like any human on earth should have gone through them just to cover some fundamentals.
Anyway, there is plenty of advice on book reading online, for myself I needed a pre-curation on books to read and so far I used Leo Gura and Tai Lopez's lists , while building my own lists and categories.
Recently, Tim Ferris, one of my passive mentors, launched a "5-bullet Friday" series which is inspiring for my future series as well. Another source of inspiration might be considered Chris Coney from the CryptoVerse as he carefully selects news from the crypto world and dives in.
Anyway, in contrast to the people mentioned above, my readings include programming how to's, crypto currency books and courses as well as youtube or dtube videos with insight.
There are books that I reread regularly, but at the moment I read new books in trying to identify the best books to reread while trying to push my learning boundries. So far I got to organise my future reading in 6 lists, main readings for each time of the day:
- morning: classics (my definition of classics, must say)
- lunch break: how to's (programming or managerial mostly)
- evening: biographies
and 3 lists of books that look interesting but haven't got enough information for them:
After going through Tai's lessons and organised my lists, there was a handy article published for other people who just wanted to know how to choose what to read by Tai's talked of principles.
Here is what can be a first article in these series.
Three Golden nuggets selection:
- From "Sapiens" : "Cooking led to reducing the time we spend to eat, allowing for time to do different activities."
- On diversity: "create your own opportunities", diversity these days looks too much like complaining rather than action and value added
- Getting There , Craig Venter, Phd Scientist, "I like to start with quick and dirty experiments [...] I get intensely focused and put 110 percent into improving it and making it work in an elegant fashion. [...] I reserve the right to change my mind and I'm constantly rethinking things."
Bonus: Crypto pick of the day, STORJ, after a pump last month Storj has decreased in value to a point where it was before the pump, the company is solid and quite old in the crypto space. Certainly a space I am looking at. (10 september 2017)
Please feel free to comment with opinions on this process.
Do you think this is a good practice ? maybe a practice you are looking to adopt as well ?