How to Read Like a CEO Without Breaking a Sweat: 47 Books a Year

You're reading How to Read Like a CEO Without Breaking a Sweat: 47 Books a Year, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.   "I read a book one day and my whole life changed" - Orhan Pamuk Yes, it's true. You can a read like a CEO without breaking a sweat. And I know this because I do it. And it's easy. I didn't believe it at first but a year and 47 books later, it became true. Let me first tell you that an average CEO reads about 40 books a year while an average person reads less than 10 books a year. And the difference in income is more than 400 times bigger. But this is the info you already know. You want to know how so let's go into it. Create a system for book reading You decide you want to start doing something. You know it will transform your life for better. And you start doing it. Day 1 goes great, Day 2 ok and on Day 3 you are already quitting. Day 7 and you totally forget about that thing you wanted to do. Does this sound like you or everyone that you probably know? Of course, because this is how we usually operate. We rely on our willpower which depletes quickly. And because of that, we quit. Only relying on our willpower will bring us nowhere. So we started to create systems. Systems which would shift the focus from ourselves and our willpower to the system. Here is an example: Imagine that you have a job. And you need to get up at 7:00 AM t...
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