The 300 Book Challenge does sound interesting but I don't think I'm ready for it now.
I think there are still some gaps for me to run through a 500 plus page book in one day.
Not clear on how I would do that or retain the information and notes.
So first of all I would say that while setting a goal of 300 books or a book a day is a goal.
Ultimately the goal is learning and we just use setting a goal to motivate us to keep learning and to
constantly be learning.
And you don't always have to read a book a day.
But I think on average you should be reading around a book a day.
Sometimes you'll be reading too sometimes and reading and half a book a day or whatever the case may
be.
But on average we want to hit at least my goal is around 300 bucks a year.
Another thing that's been helpful for me is reading Warren Buffett's biography the snowball which is
around 900 pages.
And at first I thought you know I'm going to go through this in one sitting I got to finish it in one
day because I had that same mentality I want to practice what I preach.
And you know I came to the realization that you can't always read every single book in our most books
you can.
Ninety five percent of books you can but sometimes you know that book I went through maybe 150 pages
in an hour maybe even 100 so here's what I would say I something I picked up from Donald Trump that
he said in his book How to Get Rich and this is how I reconcile that how I you know is still able to
read a book a day and get through that book as well was you know Donald Trump said in his book that
he'll spend the first three hours of his day reading but you'd particularly be reading things that are
relevant to his jobs more how to type stuff.
And then when he comes home at night he'll do some more reading and he read biographies or ideas from
the greats in history.
So the way I kind of translated that is if it is a very long book like a 900 page book I don't want
to spend a full week reading just that one book because it can throw me off in reaching my goal of 300
in a year.
So what I can do is focus on more of my how to type books in mind during my morning ritual and keeping
that track of one book a day or on average one book a day.
And if it's a 900 page book I could read that during my spare time or at night or any time I really
have some extra time and just want to spend time reading and plan on getting through a book like that
maybe in three to seven days.
And that way if I'm reading a book a day in the morning and I'm reading that other book then I entered
page book in my ex your spare time.
I'm actually getting through eight pages.
Sorry eight books in a week instead of seven.
So that's a cool thing you can do to organize your time to still be reading a book a day and still be
able to go through those really big books.
Another thing you can do is scheduled to read the long books during your travel time.
For example when I wanted to read the Steve Jobs biography I got the audio book and listened to it in
the car.
And something you can do to make it even faster I didn't know to do this at the time but in retrospect
I would have done it is listen to that at one point five or two speed so I can get through it even more
quickly.
So if you do something like this you can still read books during your reading ritual that you can get
through in one or two days and then leave these longer books for your travel time.
And you can still speed those up by going through it at 1.5 or 2 speed.
And the last thing I would say is that the size of a book shouldn't always determine how long you spend
reading it.
Because remember it's not reading any book regardless of how big it is.
The goal is to be able to extract and take from it just a few things that you can take and apply to
your life to help you get toward your goals and what you want to do even in a book like that.
There's still a lot of things that are irrelevant to you.
There's so a lot of things that are just filler.
You know people hate filling books and people like talking doesn't mean they should read everything
that's in there.
So just remember these things that the size of the book shouldn't determine how long you spend on it
necessarily.
You can spend your morning ritual or your reading ritual whenever you have that a day on books.
You can finish in a day or maybe even two days at the most and then spend your extra time reading some
longer books if that's an issue of issue for you.
So I hope this was helpful and if you're worried about reading long books because you can't get through
it in a day just remember by using these things you can still get through it a lot more quickly.
You know a thousand page book maybe it'll take you three or four days.
But remember if you're just reading it from cover to cover books like that will take two or three weeks.
So these techniques and things still apply.
It may take you longer so you can use these couple traits and mindset shifts to be able to go through
some longer books as well.