When you travel to new place, you grab your DSLR camera and you start taking photos of the beautiful things you see, you've never been in that place before. So you just shoot what grabs your attention. In the end of the day, you check the dozens of photos you have, and you upload them to your computer. You pick your favorite ones, and you end up with only 10. you edit three or five, and you post them on social media. The process of reading a book and optimizing the whole learning experience is the same. You grab a book and you start reading everything that interests you, and that you find incredibly impactful.
You've never read anything like it before. So you just read what catches your attention. In the end of the day, you wind up with a lot of principles and ideas and they're lined so you read them again to make sure your memory saves all of that information, but only a few of those really seem to impact you. you edit your favorite ideas by connecting them with other lessons you've learned before, and they stick forever within you. In the end, you choose to share three to five of your favorite ideas with others. This is exactly how you should approach any book in order to read, retain, and apply more.
First, you have to know which books to read. Second, what parts of the book you should read. Third, how to collect valuable ideas and principles. Fourth, how to make the most important ideas stick with how to apply the most important lessons in your own life. This is exactly what I'm going to cover on this course to help you out with read more, apply more and retain more. The biggest misconception about reading is that you must be able to apply everything that you learn in a book in your own life to make it real and effective.
If I've applied everything that I I've just read in the past three years, I would be kind of crazy. It's impossible to apply everything you read. The key is to find the most important ideas and to create a plan to act on them immediately because it's better to make small incremental changes that stick them to try to change everything at the same time and stick with none of those new habits.