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One Little Step – advice for wantabes and newbie entrepreneurs

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As you are a Matrix fan:

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So maybe you are asking the wrong question? Ask yourself why you need to speed read. More than likely it is to absorb the salient points of a book as quickly (efficiently) as possible. Right? You want to get to the meat of the subject as you don’t have the time, nor the inclination for all that filler.

Parento’s law applies to everything including books. But instead of being an 80/20 imbalance it is probably more likely to be 95/5 or even 99/1, as books are basically padded out to get to what is deemed by the publishers as the right number of words to represent value.

Let’s face it if a 302 page book (my copy of Richards Kock’s The 80 20 Principle in this case) was distilled down to 15 pages (5% of 302) then you would probably hesitate to spend the current price of $12.82 on Amazon.com for a copy. It’s just our human nature to want more bang for our bucks.

So really the question could be, not "how do I learn to speed read?" but "how do I find a reliable way to extract that 5% or less?" Agreed?

There are several good techniques that will help you accomplish that and there are also sites where someone else has done all the hard work for you and distilled the essence of a books wisdom into a few pages.

One such site is Book Summaries | 100+ Good Book Summaries Organized by Category

If you still are seriously interested in actual speed reading however you can find the Cheat Sheet for Speed Reading For Dummies right here

I only hit the LIKE button because there was no button to Special Delivery You your Fav Cookies-Brew-Pizza or something! :)
 
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many people end up using this forum and other business related forums and books like another form of Facebook.

I deleted Facebook awhile ago, but I noticed that even though I deleted Facebook, just as you mentioned, I substituted this forum as another Facebook.

Although I do take action and use this forum for learning and its purpose...

I do notice that I spend a little too much time on this forum socializing. Nothing wrong about trying to connect with others, but there's always a point where a little too much, is actually too much.

Less time randomly socializing and more time being actually productive.

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I highly agree with you about taking small actions every single day. This reminds me of the book, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.
 

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I deleted Facebook awhile ago, but I noticed that even though I deleted Facebook, just as you mentioned, I substituted this forum as another Facebook.

It's only natural that when we remove something we find something to replace it with. After all nature abhors a vacuum.

I highly agree with you about taking small actions every single day. This reminds me of the book, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.

Ha, I thought I had read that so went to check and Google must have ears as it is showing up under recommendations. lol

I have definitely got a copy somewhere though.

Less time randomly socializing and more time being actually productive.

Maybe set a specific time duration for productively then once you have completed that you can have as much random socialising as you like.
 

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