4 Ways to Make Reading Fun Again

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As a leader, you know you should be developing a consistent reading habit, but you struggle to prioritize reading. Here’s the good news—the problem isn’t what you’re reading, it’s how and why you’re reading. In today’s episode, Michael and Megan identify four purposes for reading. If you adopt them, you’ll fall in love with reading again. You’ll be swimming in new ideas and feel on top of your game. In this episode, you’ll discover: Why comprehension and retention are not the most important goals when reading How many books Michael, Megan, & Larry read each year (you might be surprised!) Suggestions for capturing ideas when you’re listening to audiobooks The impact of reading on your social life and relationships Why you need to read books that you may not necessarily agree with Pros and cons of physical, ebook, and audio formats One thing leaders absolutely must have (that reading provides) For full show notes, visit www.leadto.win. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by the Vision Grader, a free assessment to assess the quality of your vision. Learn more at leadto.win/grader. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by The Vision Greater, a free assessment to assess the quality of your vision.
0:08.0	Learn more at lead to.win slash greater.
0:19.2	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life and today we're going to be talking about a problem
0:23.4	that afflicts a lot of leaders, at least a lot of leaders I know, they feel like they should
0:27.6	read more, but they just don't want to.
0:30.3	Okay, so... to
0:39.0	Okay, so we're gonna take a little trip to the honest planet. As you know, I have a new baby, my youngest of five kids, I'm fully back at work after my
0:47.0	parental leave, last summer, all that. I am struggling with reading right now, here's the thing I kind of feel like my out of work time
0:57.2	happens in like 15 minute increments you know the the longest increment is my morning walk which is you know like 30 minutes but other
1:05.6	than that it's just like these little 15 minute bursts and I feel I actually
1:09.1	really enjoy reading I have a whole stack of books that is my 2020 reading list, but when I kind of get down to it,
1:16.4	I feel like I don't have time and I'm not sure I want to read because like it's this huge thing in my mind
1:21.9	that I've got to sit down in my reading chair with my
1:24.5	coffee and I've got to have you know my various colors for writing or maybe my favorite pencil
1:32.3	you know to take notes.
1:34.0	And let me be honest with you.
1:36.0	That is not happening.
1:37.3	I'm just happy if, you know, I can take a shower
1:39.7	and brush my teeth again in a 15 minute increment
1:42.2	without being interrupted.
1:43.0	Well here's a good news. You're not alone. I had a feeling that was true.
1:47.0	I know so many leaders just like that they feel like reading is this big chore.
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