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Chapter Three - Learning

How to Read More Books

Here's my original

article on the

methods I used to

A big part of self-education is book reading. Book reading isn’t read 70+ books

complete (skill mastery is the other half of self-education), but I’d guess if

per year.

you’re reading 30-50 books per year, you’re learning more than most Some other

people in full-time classes.

thoughts on

reading more:

In the past, I wrote about how I read over 70 books per year, during a 2-year period. Today I probably read 30-50 books, per year, but the

-Should you read

more fiction?

principles I used to reach that reading volume still hold today.

-Read books you

disagree with

Speed Reading for Dummies

-My results

Speed reading is an important tool for increasing your reading reading a book

per day for one

volume. I think the term speed reading is a bit of a misnomer, because it week.

makes people think only about reading faster.

The practice of speed reading, however, taught me a lot more about controlling my speed. Yes, it helped me increase the upper speed limit, but

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