I read 102 books last year (yes, I am bragging) and a question I get from friends, family, and concerned strangers all the time is: Tyler, how do you have time to read so many books while still being popular, cute, and unbelievably humble to boot?
Honestly, what a great question. And like all great questions, I already have an answer. Here are some of my scientifically proven* tips to read more books:
Read books that you think will be good. (Seriously.)
Read faster. Approximately 67% of words in the English language are filler. Even though I made this statistic up, it’s true that you can mostly get the gist of things by skimming. You're a chump if you read every word in this bullet point, I could have cut like half of them.
Widen the scope of the literature you consume. Poetry, comics, the yellow pages, picture books, restaurant menus — all’s fair when it comes to your total book count at the end of the year.
Have bad coping mechanisms. Mine is called maladaptive daydreaming, and reading helps me dissociate more easily!
Write a book. Can't find a book you want to read? Sounds like a you problem, and the obvious answer is that you should write the great American novel, get a literary agent, shop it to publishers, get it printed in multiple languages, go on a global tour to promote it, and once all that’s done, you’ll probably want to read it.
ta-ta for now, & happy reading!
Tyler
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*Probably
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