One of the most common conversations I remember from sitting in high school classrooms is the “Why should I remember this?”-debate.
“Why should I memorize where carbon is in the periodic table of elements, if I can just look it up any second on my phone?”
“Why should I remember when the Vietnam War started, if it’s on Wikipedia?”
“Why should I…”
It’s true that memorizing facts simply for the sake of memorizing facts has become useless.
Except for the one case where it hasn’t:
Being interesting.
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Back in July, I asked the people on my Four Minute Books newsletter what their biggest struggle with reading was.
Here’s the unanimous answer:
It doesn’t get much clearer than that.
Read MoreIn a nutshell: Learn how to read more books by spending time on the internet. Make the transition easy on yourself.
What this does it keeps you inside the comfort zone initially (you’re used to browsing around the web), but the content you read will steer you away from the web and into books.
Basically procrastinate in a way that drives you right into the thing you actually want to do.
Read lots of content about books, learn more about books you’ve always wanted to read, watch video reviews by other people and you’ll naturally feel drawn to books more and over time, the urge to pick them up and read them will get stronger and stronger – until you’ll naturally make the jump!
For example, I have a 12,000+ word blog post that’s a visual list of motivational book index cards. It’s fun to explore, look around, share, but it also really makes you want to read those books 🙂
Here’s a sample:
You can start exploring that list here.
Alternatively, you can try this: I’ve spent the past 4 months creating a free email course to help you build a daily reading habit. It’s a digital way of learning how to read more books 🙂 You can sign up here.