How to read when you hate reading!
From lousy reader to voracious reader.
If you know me personally, you know that I am a Voracious Reader! Reading nearly 50 books per year. But what you don’t know is that I was not a reader 3 years back. I developed my reading habit slowly and steadily!
Here I share the practices I deployed to build, improve and retain my reading habit!
Tip #0 (Most Important)
Why do you want to read? What is the purpose of your reading? Is it for entertainment or motivation? Do you want to learn specific skills or are you improving your vocabulary?
It is essential to understand this as your reading style and speed will depend on this. Reading a non-fiction book is an uphill task and time-consuming compared to easy read, attention-grabbing fiction books.
Having a clear vision of your reading purpose is the first step in building reading as a habit.
Once you learn to read, you’ll be forever free. — Frederick Douglass
Tip #1
If you haven’t read a book ever, you would want to take it slow. Don’t keep over-ambitious goals just because someone wrote it in a blog or said in an interview. It is easy to say, ‘Yeah, I…
