Episode notes
This episode explores the new approach to reading books I adopted in July of 2019. Since then I have completed less than five books, a time period during which I would have probably completed twice as many.
The goal is to go deeper on a select number of meaningful books and implement the ideas in those books instead of trying to read as many books as possible.
Highlights- Creating Your Life with Love with Gary Mahler
- About half way through Gary shares how few books he reads these days and why
- Reading as a form of mindless consumption
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- My reading rules and the conscious approach I’m taking to what I’m reading
- The four books I’m focused at the moment of this recording
- Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
- The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
- More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking by Nancy Kline
- Living Service: The Journey of a Prosperous Coach by Melissa Ford
- Free of the need to “read the latest” and keep up
- Insights can come from stillness vs. consumption
- Questions and challenges
- What’s your story about your reading and consumption?
- Is it serving you?
- Is it taking you to where you want to go?
- Would it be worthwhile to try this experiment yourself?
- What’s your story about your reading and consumption?
- Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
- Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod
- Original photo source
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