Hey there, you're listening to The Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done.

Hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable.

So here we do things differently. On this show, we value contentment,

compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy

geniuses. Being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't,

and I'm so glad you're here. Today's episode 472, easy summer reading

ideas. I'm really excited about this episode. We have collected a handful of great summer

reading ideas across several categories that I'm going to share with you today, along with my

own personal ideas. So some from you, some from me. Plus, we have some reading

questions, kind of like office hours that I will sprinkle throughout. We're going to talk about

reading vibes, ways to read more, permission to read whatever you want to read, and lots more.

After that, fun talk around reading, we will have a little extra something where I talk about how to make phone calls.

So the episode from a couple of weeks ago was all about lazy, geniusing, annoying responsibilities.

And phone calls can be one of those things.

But I also know that phone anxiety can be like a whole thing.

So many people just really dread making phone calls.

I am not an expert on like phone call hacks or even phone call anxiety, but I can't offer some

solidarity and maybe like a little bit of encouragement on getting this particular chore done.

As always, we'll celebrate the lazy genius of the week,

which is another great summer reading tip. And then we will finish with a mini pep talk for

when you are in a rut. All right, because we have so many good reading ideas to get to.

Let's just go ahead and jump in. But we are going to start with a question that's not really about summer reading, but for sure about reading in general.

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