1345: Reading to Remember by Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci on Personal Growth & Educational Learning

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🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci shares his thoughts on reading to remember. Episode 1345: Reading to Remember by Michael Mehlberg of Modern da Vinci on Personal Growth & Educational Learning Michael Mehlberg is an entrepreneur and certified agile project manager who specializes in productivity and organization systems. His blog, Modern da Vinci has been called "The Owners Manual to an Awesome Life" and helps high-achieving entrepreneurs master their life and business - crushing their goals, living their passion, and finding purpose, balance, and excellence in all they do. The original post is located here: https://www.moderndavinci.net/blog/2015/6/29/reading-to-remember Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1345, reading to remember by Michael Melberg of moderndevinci.net.
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0:34.0	And without let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:41.7	Reading to remember by Michael Melberg of moderndevinci.net.
0:47.3	After the invention of the Amazon Kindle, my reading list quickly grew to a mile long.
0:53.1	With the release of oyster books, it easily doubled.
0:56.3	Combined those lists with my own personal list stored in Evernote,
0:59.2	and one could easily build a literature skyscraper.
1:02.4	Pruning my reading list down to the quote-unquote important books has proven nearly impossible.
1:08.2	They all seem just as important as the day they made the cut.
1:11.6	Like many, I read to learn. I read to grow. I read to build my character and deepen my understanding
1:17.6	of the world. How can I possibly shrink a reading list built on aspirations of education,
1:23.3	growth, and personal development? I can't. So the list grows longer and I continue to read
1:29.2	voraciously. For my entire life, this seemed like the correct formula. Looking back on shelves
1:35.3	full of hundreds, if not thousands of books read, provides a certain satisfaction for the
1:39.7	intellectually inclined. Yet while looking at the shelves, I realized that any effect these books
1:44.8	had on me was fleeting. Some books were long forgotten, others of vague memory. My problem?
1:51.6	I wasn't reading to remember. And for what other purpose do we read then to remember?
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