10 Tips for Reading More Books in 2024

Summary

本视频分享了十个提高阅读量的实用技巧，强调了阅读的乐趣和过程的重要性，而不是单纯追求阅读数量。建议包括阅读自己喜欢的书籍、在阅读过程中适时放弃不感兴趣的书籍、购买书籍以支持作者、同时阅读多本书、利用音频书、塑造有利于阅读的环境、使用Kindle等电子阅读器、通过Goodreads等平台游戏化阅读过程、改变自我身份认同为读者，以及不过分关注阅读数量。

Takeaways

• 📚 阅读兴趣：从自己喜欢的类型开始阅读，培养阅读习惯。
• 🚫 放弃书籍：如果一本书读不下去，完全可以中途放弃，不必强迫自己。
• 💸 购书理念：遇到推荐的书籍，立即购买，不要犹豫。
• 📚 多本同时阅读：同时阅读多本不同类型的书籍，适应不同心情。
• 📱 利用工具：使用书摘服务，快速获取书籍精华。
• 🎧 听有声书：利用有声书在忙碌时也能享受阅读的乐趣。
• 🌐 塑造环境：通过调整物理和数字环境，让阅读变得更容易。
• 🖋️ 推荐Kindle：Kindle是提高阅读量的神器，便于携带和使用。
• 🎮 游戏化阅读：使用类似Goodreads的平台，将阅读变成一种挑战和乐趣。
• 🆔 改变身份认同：将自己视为一个读者，更容易培养阅读习惯。
• 📈 忽略数量：不要过分关注阅读的数量，而应享受阅读过程本身。

Q & A

为什么作者认为阅读对他来说比其他任何活动更有价值？

作者认为阅读在过去12年里为他的生活增加了比任何其他事情都多的价值，这是因为阅读不仅丰富了他的知识和见识，还让他享受到了阅读的过程。

作者提到的第一个阅读技巧是什么？

作者提到的第一个阅读技巧是读你所爱，直到你爱上阅读。他认为，选择自己真正感兴趣的书籍来阅读，会让阅读变得更容易坚持和享受。

作者如何看待在阅读过程中放弃一本书？

作者认为在阅读过程中放弃一本书是完全可以接受的。他比喻说，就像观看YouTube视频一样，如果视频不再提供价值，我们不会觉得有义务看完它。同样，如果一本书让你感到挣扎，那么它可能不是当前最适合你的书籍。

作者为什么建议总是立即购买推荐的书籍？

作者建议总是立即购买推荐的书籍，因为他认为书籍是性价比极高的知识来源。一本书可能只需要5到20美元，但它包含了作者多年的研究和努力。

作者推荐使用哪种服务来获取书籍摘要？

作者推荐使用短篇书籍摘要服务，他认为这是获取书籍精华的极好方式，尤其是对于那些没有时间阅读全书的人来说。

为什么作者认为听有声书是一个改变生活的发明？

作者认为听有声书是一个改变生活的发明，因为它让人们在做其他事情的同时也能享受阅读的乐趣，比如在通勤、散步或者做家务时听书。

作者如何描述他的数字游民生活方式对他的阅读习惯的影响？

作者描述他的数字游民生活方式让他的生活更加灵活，他可以随时随地阅读。尽管他没有携带很多纸质书，但他总是带着Kindle，这样他无论在何处都能阅读。

作者推荐使用哪种设备来提高阅读量？

作者强烈推荐使用Kindle或其他电子阅读器来提高阅读量，因为他认为Kindle是一个便宜且便携的设备，可以让他随时随地阅读。

作者如何使用Goodreads来增强他的阅读习惯？

作者使用Goodreads来设定阅读挑战，记录他读过的书籍，并给书籍打分。他认为这样的社交网络式阅读平台可以让阅读变得更有趣，也能激励他读更多书。

作者建议如何改变身份认同来提高阅读量？

作者建议通过改变身份认同来提高阅读量，即开始将自己视为一个阅读者。他认为，如果你认为自己是一个爱读书的人，那么你就会更容易采取每天阅读的行动。

作者为什么强调不要过分关注阅读的数量？

作者强调不要过分关注阅读的数量，因为他认为阅读的真正价值在于享受过程和从中获得的洞见，而不是数字本身。他鼓励读者专注于阅读的质量和吸收的内容，而不是追求阅读的数量。

Outlines

00:00

📚 培养阅读习惯的十个建议

本段介绍了作者通过阅读获得的个人价值，并分享了十个提高阅读量的建议。首先，作者强调选择自己喜欢的书籍来培养阅读兴趣，而不是强迫自己阅读困难或不感兴趣的书籍。其次，作者提倡可以放弃那些不再吸引自己的书籍，就像放弃不再有价值的视频一样。第三，作者建议购买书籍，因为书籍是知识和努力的结晶，而且成本相对较低。此外，作者还提到了通过电子邮件通讯服务Morning Brew来获取信息，以及感谢Morning Brew对视频的赞助。

05:00

📖 多线阅读与利用工具

作者分享了自己同时阅读多本书籍的习惯，包括小说、非小说、工作相关和个人兴趣等不同类型的书籍。这样做的好处是可以根据心情和能量选择阅读材料，减少阅读的阻力。作者还推荐了使用短篇书籍摘要服务来提高阅读效率。此外，作者强调了听有声书的好处，如Audible和Spotify Premium，它们可以在做其他事情时听书，并且有时听书比阅读更容易理解某些类型的书籍。

10:01

🌟 塑造阅读友好的环境

作者讨论了如何通过改变物理和数字环境来促进阅读习惯的养成。例如，将书籍放在床头柜上，或者在手机主屏幕上放置阅读相关的应用程序，如Kindle和Audible，以便于随时阅读。作者还建议减少社交媒体应用程序的可见性，以减少干扰。此外，作者推荐使用Kindle或其他电子阅读器，因为它们便携且可以存储大量书籍，有助于随时随地阅读。

🎮 将阅读变成游戏

作者提出了通过使用Goodreads这样的社交阅读平台来游戏化阅读过程，设置阅读挑战，跟踪阅读进度，并为书籍评分。此外，作者建议通过改变个人身份认同来更容易地养成阅读习惯，比如将自己视为一个读者。最后，作者强调不要过分关注阅读的数量，而是享受阅读过程本身，因为真正的生产力来自于享受过程。

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Highlights

过去12年中，阅读为生活带来的价值超过了其他任何事情。

本视频分享10个提高阅读量的顶级技巧，坚持这些技巧，你甚至可能每年阅读100本书。

重要的是你确实在阅读并享受过程，而不是具体读了多少本书。

阅读技巧#1：读你所爱，直到你爱上阅读。

阅读技巧#2：放弃正在阅读的书籍是可以的。

阅读技巧#3：总是立即购买推荐的书籍。

阅读技巧#4：同时阅读多本书。

阅读技巧#5：使用书摘服务来快速了解书籍内容。

阅读技巧#6：听有声书，它们可以改变生活。

阅读技巧#7：塑造你的阅读环境，比如在手机主屏幕上添加阅读应用。

阅读技巧#8：考虑使用Kindle或其他电子阅读器。

阅读技巧#9：通过Goodreads等平台将阅读游戏化。

阅读技巧#10：改变你的身份认同，认为自己是一个读者。

不要过分关注阅读的数量，而应专注于享受阅读过程。

如果想了解如何记住所读内容，可以查看相关视频。

通过阅读，可以做出许多改变生活的决定。

书籍是内容传递的媒介，不应给自己阅读带来压力。

有声书可以在Audible、Spotify Premium和其他平台上获取。

通过改变数字环境，比如手机主屏幕布局，鼓励阅读。

Transcripts

hey friends welcome back to the channel

so over the last 12 years reading has

added more value to my life than

anything I've ever done or anyone I've

met so in this video I want to share 10

of my top tips for reading more

consistently and if you follow the tips

in this video then there's a high chance

you might even be able to read 100 books

a year but obviously I just want to say

upfront it does not matter how many

books you actually manage to read every

year 100 is just an arbitrary number

just like anything else what matters is

that you are in fact reading and you are

enjoying the process tip number one is

one of my favorite quotes from investor

and Entre R preneur Naval ravikant where

he says read what you love until you

love to read and this is an idea that's

actually still pretty underrated like

people who struggle to hit their reading

goals often view reading as this like

this major thing that you have to

optimize and you have to kind of read

the difficult books or read the classics

or like read sapiens and try and like

get through that for the hundredth time

why is life so hard but it's kind of

like with working out the best workout

is the workout that you are excited to

do similarly the best book is the one

that you are excited to read in a given

moment now for me what I really enjoyed

reading is Paranormal romance fantasy

fiction and trashy romance novels that

you get like recommended on good reads

and these are great because it's a nice

easy thing that I can read and so if I'm

ever in a position where I've sort of

lost the habit of reading every day

instead of trying to dive in with like a

really challenging novel or a really

challenging book that's going to be

pretty hard to read it's not going to be

particularly exciting I'll dive in with

something really easy until I love the

process again and then as I'm going

along I'll be able to tackle the more

challenging book so if you want an

action point from this video then ask

yourself what is one book that I would

be really excited to read right now and

just go and read it and in fact I'd love

to hear in the comments what is that one

book that you're most excited to read

right now all right tip number two is

that it's actually totally okay to quit

books while you're in the middle of them

again reading has this weird thing like

we we have this weird mindset around

books that if I start a book I then have

to finish the book and it's probably

this thing that we've been told

throughout school that reading is feels

like work and it feels like a chore and

if you if you start a bug then you have

to finish it otherwise you're like

deficient in some way but the way that I

personally find more helpful to think

about books is that a book is just

another medium of content delivery like

a YouTube video is a medium of content

delivery as is an email newsletter as is

a blog post as is a movie now if you're

watching this video on YouTube and you

stop getting value from it you wouldn't

think twice about just like picking

another video you wouldn't be thinking

oh my goodness this is a video it's an

educational video I have to watch it

through to the end you'd be thinking oh

it's a video I might try it maybe I Vibe

with it maybe I don't but either way

you're not like putting this major

pressure on yourself to finish the video

but when it comes to books we do this

all the time we put this pressure on

ourselves to finish books that we've

started and so if we can get over that

weirdness that we have around books and

start thinking that it's actually okay

to quit books while you're in the middle

of them and so a tangible action point

here is what is one book that you are

currently in the middle of that you've

been struggling to read and once you've

identified what that book is you just

tell yourself that you are going to

abandon reading it for now that doesn't

mean you're never going to finish it it

just means you can always finish it

later and you can always start a new

book that you're a little bit more

excited about because one of the

premises of my whole philosophy around

productivity which is why my book is

called Feelgood productivity is that

really the secret to productivity and

doing stuff is to find a way to enjoy

the process if you are having having to

struggle through a book it's probably

not the right book for you at this time

all right tip number three is to always

buy the book now books are somewhere

between $5 and $20 they're fairly cheap

in the grand scheme of things and even

if you don't have that sort of money you

probably know ways to acquire books even

without paying for them not that I'm

kind of endorsing any of that stuff but

you know what I mean now back in the day

when I didn't have any money my approach

to book recommendations was that if I

ever got a book recommendation I would

find a way to acquire the book that

might have meant borrowing it from the

local library or finding some other ways

to get get access to books but these

days My Philosophy now that I do have

some disposable income is that anytime

someone recommends a book I will just

buy the book without even thinking about

it a book is such a small cost for such

a stupid amount of work this is my book

I've spent three and a half years

working on this book it's had literally

thousands of hours of of effort that's

gone into it it's had me a researcher an

editor another editor another three

editors going going through the book

making sure everything is legit a

researcher to fact check absolutely

everything we've talked about there is a

stupid amount of effort that goes into

the into the production of a single book

book and you can buy a book for

somewhere between $5 and $20 and it's

literally years of someone's life

experience that's condensed into this

thing that like there's almost no other

Med medium that gives you such bank for

your buck in terms of what you can learn

and what you can get from a book which

is why what I normally recommend is to

lower your threshold for buying books if

you have the disposable income just buy

any book that you hear the

recommendation of if you don't you can

find a way to acquire it and me

personally I can trace so many of my

most life-changing decisions down to a

single book and so if you hear a book

recommendation you might as well just

buy the book now other than books one

other thing that I read on a regular

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tip number four is to read multiple

books at once again this speaks to that

point around it's okay to quit books

like sometimes you're just not in the

mood for a certain type of book I often

have about eight or nine different books

on the go some of them are fiction some

of them are non-fiction some of them are

directly related to my work some of them

are completely unrelated to my work and

so to just give you an idea I read for

around half an hour at least every day

and the books that I'm currently in the

process of reading are excellent advice

for living by Kevin Kelly eight dates by

John and Julie gotman Kundalini Contra

which is a spirituality book crucial

conversations which is a book about how

to have important conversations the

fantasy fiction book light lock by Alex

Aster the fantasy fiction book battle

mage by Peter Flanery and finally one

blade of grass which is a Zen Memoir by

Henry shukman that I'm sort of 20%

through so this is quite a lot of books

and it's quite a lot of variety there's

a bit of self-help bit of spirituality a

bit of fiction and it's nice because it

means that every evening when I'm on my

Kindle just before bed I can decide what

do I feel like reading today and I'll

just go wherever my energy takes me but

if I only had one book that I was

focusing on at a given time I would then

feel a lot more of that friction where

I'm like ah I don't really feel like I

don't know doing a spirituality book

tonight if I didn't have an alternative

option then I just wouldn't read and

then I would lose the habit and then I

would end up reading a lot less oh also

another fantastic way of getting through

lots of books is by using short form

they're an insanely good book summary

service by far the best one I've ever

used and they have summaries from all of

the best non-fiction books across loads

of different genres they'll be linked

down in the video description if you

want to check them out tip number six is

to listen to audiobooks audiobooks are

absolutely freaking life-changing you

can now get audiobooks on on Audible you

can also get them on Spotify with

Spotify Premium you can also get them on

speechify if you use speechify like

there's now lots and lots of ways of

accessing audiobooks other than just

audible which has been around for a very

long time but audiobooks are absolutely

gamechanging because it means that you

can listen to books while you on the go

while you are doing more interesting

things and one of the really nice things

about listening to a book is that it's

often easier to get through certain

types of books when listening to them

rather than when reading them so for

example I'm currently listening to The

Fellowship of the Ring the first book in

The Lord of the Ring series I have tried

reading that book tons and tons and tons

of times over the years but I've never

quite been able to kind of battle

through some of the heavier denser

descriptions but having a really nice

narrator reading it out to me makes me

much more likely to get through it

similarly I Tried reading sapun by

youval Noah Harari for absolutely ages I

never managed to get through it until I

listened to it on Audible and then I got

through the whole thing and I was like

damn this is actually really good and

there are some books where listening to

it is just so nice but also obviously it

means that you can do it while doing

other things one of my favorite things

to do is to go on a walk while listening

to an audio book so these days as I'm

getting in my 10,000 steps every day I'm

listening to the Lord of the Rings audio

book and it's absolutely sick similarly

back when I had a day job and I used to

commute to work and back I'd be I'd be

driving an hour each way to work when I

worked at the hospital and I'd be

listening to the Brandon Sanderson

fantasy book series the mistborn series

The Stormlight Archive The Wheel of Time

series by Robert Jordan and these were

just incredible long ass fantasy series

and I'd be listening to them in the car

and I'd get to work and I'd be like ah I

don't want this to end so if you haven't

yet started reading audiobooks I can

wholeheartedly recommend and in fact I

have narrated my own Audi book and if

you want to sign up to a free trial of

audible you get one free credit you can

use it to buy my book if you want it's

free might as well let's now move on to

tip number six which is to shape your

environment so right now I'm living a

bit of a digital Nomad year where I've

got everything of mine in a suitcase and

a backpack which is why I don't really

have many physical books on me although

I do like to carry one or two physical

books and so I have obviously mine so I

can show it off in videos like this and

also this one how to change your life by

Jake Humphrey and Damen Hughes which is

very nice so far and so if you're a

physical book kind of person then

shaping your environment means just

having easy access to books like maybe

you have a book on your bedside table or

two or three so that when you get into

bed you might as well reach for a book

and read for a little bit but it's not

just your physical environment it's also

your digital environment and so one

thing that I find really useful to do is

to design my iPhone home screens in a

way that encourages me to read and so on

my home screen right now I've got a

calendar I've got my habit tracker I've

got my to-do list app and I've got the

Kindle app and I've also got the

readwise reader app both of these things

are things that encourage me to read and

then on one of the other pages of my

phone I've got the Kindle widget and the

Audible widget and so one thing that I

found super helpful is to just not have

any social media apps visible on my home

screen so if I want to go on Instagram I

have to physically scroll down and type

in Instagram for it to work but the

basic idea is that if you want to build

any sort of habit you want to try and

give yourself little nudges to do that

habit and to remind yourself that oh

yeah this is the thing I wanted to do

and if you want to break any kind of bad

habit like for example social media

addiction or anything like that you want

to make it a little bit harder for you

to access those things and so action

point here might be that can you pause

this video right now and just add a

couple of reading themed apps to your

phone screen maybe it's a Kindle app

maybe it's a reader app maybe it's a

Spotify app for audiobooks or AUD

whatever that might be there's a bunch

of different apps of read for reading

but if you have those first thing on

your home screen then it's also helping

you design your digital environment in a

way that makes it Mak it a lot easier to

read tip number seven I've mentioned

this a couple of times but let me grab

it I could wholeheartedly recommend

getting a Kindle Kindle is just a

freaking incredible it's an incredible

device it's stupidly cheap they're like

I don't know 50 say 60 $70 on Amazon

these days you can get them cheaper if

you have adverts on the front cover as

well I've been using a Kindle pretty

much every day since 2008 when the

original Kindle came out and it's been

one of the if not the single most

impactful tech device I have ever bought

it's just amazing because like it's so

nice reading on a Kindle it's not quite

as nice as reading on paper but they're

so light I can carry a Kindle everywhere

I go I do in fact carry a Kindle

everywhere I go and these days when I'm

staying in different airbnbs and hotels

and stuff I will always take my Kindle

out and have it on my bedside table

whereas my phone will be on charge all

the way across the room which means when

I get into bed I am not tempted to go on

my phone I'm in fact the the only thing

I have access to is literally just my

Kindle and I can attribute the vast

majority of books that I've been able to

read while being busy and doing other

things to the fact that I have a Kindle

and I also have the Kindle app on my

phone so that I can read when I'm on the

toilet and also when I'm on trains and

buses and transport and taxis and all

this sort sort of stuff where I wouldn't

otherwise have my Kindle on me so action

point here is if you don't yet have a

Kindle then consider buying one or some

other kind of e-reader or like ask for

it as a gift you use a Kindle

consistently I can pretty much guarantee

that it will completely change your life

all right tip number eight is to

consider gamifying your reading process

using something like Goodreads now

Goodreads is like a social network thing

for readers it's owned by Amazon it's a

bit juny but it does mean that if you

start reading books on Kindle it will

automatically add it to your Goodreads

library and it's just kind of fun to

sort of set up reading challenges and

see how many books can I read when when

I'm on good reads it's kind of fun to

review books as well and give them a

star rating and you can just keep track

of every single book you've ever read if

you don't want to use Goodreads there's

an app that I found recently called sofa

which is a nice way to organize your

downtime that also lets you add books

the idea here is that if you can try and

make it a little bit fun turn it into a

little bit of a game when you finish a

book you give it a bit of a rating you

add it to your list and then you feel

yourself making progress by reading more

and more books that's just another

little nudge that we can use to help

build that habit of reading tip number

nine is to change your identity this is

something that James Clear talks a lot

about in atomic habits that if you do in

fact want to build a habit that's

particularly good for you you want to

start on the level of identity it's much

easier to read more books if you

identify as someone who reads a lot of

books or if you identify as a reader

rather than if you have told yourself

that you have the identity of someone

who doesn't read or like oh I don't read

books or I never read it's like all of

these things are disempowering things

that you are saying to yourself and so a

fairly easy way of reading more books is

to just shift into that identity I am

someone who reads I someone who makes

time to read and you'll find that if you

have that identity it becomes a lot

easier to take the daily actions and

then finally tip number 10 is to

genuinely stop caring about the numbers

I know this video you know clickbait

titles and all that crap like 100 books

a year 50 books a year a th books a year

whatever no one gives a about about

how many number of books you read it's

kind of fun to make the number go up

especially if you're trying to build a

habit initially just like you know

working out it's kind of fun to see how

many times can I actually get to the gym

but the main thing is that you want to

be reading and you want to be enjoying

the process of doing it which is the

entire thesis of my productivity

philosophy productivity takes care of

itself when you can find a way to enjoy

the process so again it's not about the

numbers if you're reading non-fiction

it's far better to read just like maybe

a handful of books in the year or maybe

even just one maybe even half a book in

the year and to really absorb the

insights and takeaways from it again

assuming you're reading for the sake of

insight but the most important thing is

to not worry about the numbers so much

and try your best to enjoy the process

so hopefully some of these tips will

help you read a little bit more this

year or next year and if you're

interested in trying to remember more of

the things that you read Because you

find that you read and then you forget

whatever you've read you might like to

check out this video over here which is

all about how to remember basically

everything you read so thank you so much

for watching watching and I'll see you

in the next video bye-bye