Darius Classic | How to Build Your Reading Superpower (Part 1) - Read 1 Book Per Week

The Greatness Machine

Darius Mirshahzadeh

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business

5.0 • 135 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How do you find time to read when you’re extremely busy? Reading one book per week is an achievable goal that can lead to significant benefits. By committing to reading consistently, you can expand your knowledge, improve your focus, and enhance your critical thinking abilities. This reading habit can also improve your vocabulary and writing skills, which can be beneficial in various aspects of life. Additionally, exploring different genres and topics can broaden your perspective and help you see the world in new ways. If you're having trouble reading regularly, start with shorter books or audiobooks, and gradually build up your reading stamina. However, it's important to remember that the quality of the reading experience is more important than the number of books you read. Today, I am flying solo to kick off the series How to Build Your Reading Superpower. In this episode, I will share a few tips on how I manage to read books despite my busy schedule. I will also talk about some of the books that helped me improve my mindset and lifestyle. Check out the previous episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/187-the-worlds-most-important-superpower-you-can-get/id1555334180?i=1000606724968 Topics include: What I learned from reading books about the Holocaust Why I prefer audiobooks over physical books One simple tip to help you read more books Apps to help you read more And other topics… Resources mentioned: The Tattooist of Auschwitz: https://www.amazon.com/Tattooist-Auschwitz-Novel-Heather-Morris/dp/0062797158 The Happiest Man on Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Happiest-Man-Earth-Beautiful-Auschwitz/dp/0063097680 The Miracle Morning: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Morning-Not-So-Obvious-Guaranteed-Transform/dp/0979019710 Younger Next Year: https://www.amazon.com/Younger-Next-Year-Strong-Beyond/dp/076114773X Atomic Habits: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299 Tiny Habits: https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything/dp/0358003326 Can’t Hurt Me: https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your/dp/1544512287 Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up gang? Welcome to the Greatness Machine. I'm your host Darius
0:07.1	from Shazday. I'm so pumped to have you here with me and the listen
0:09.9	the Greatness Machine were about two things. Number one, people were living their passions and number two. The greatness in the
0:13.4	were about two things. Number one, people were living their passions, and
0:14.4	number two, those who are creating greatness in the world and doing both of these
0:17.8	things despite the odds against them. Each episode we're going to feature
0:21.0	interviews with game changers,
0:22.6	business leaders, telling us their origin stories,
0:24.9	what made them tick, what got them to where they are now.
0:27.7	Why?
0:28.2	So it can help you step into your greatness
0:30.4	within your life, your business, and your career.
0:32.8	Occasionally, you might hear a few solo episodes for myself.
0:35.6	Moi, as I leverage my 20 years of entrepreneurship as a CEO and founder to help you grow
0:40.7	and level up in your journey to scale your life and your business.
0:43.8	So come be a fly on the wall, enjoy the conversation,
0:46.8	and I'm stoked to have you hear with me. What's up? What's up everybody? Today's episode of the greatness show me to host
1:00.8	Darius mrass last week we're talking
1:07.4	about the superpower of learning, the superpower of reading and how can we
1:11.2	read more. I reference James Outichor's book, skip the line and how he talks about. He believes the biggest superpower is reading books and learning from mentors new and old and the power of how we're able to do that and how I've turned this into a major thing in my life.
1:27.8	Like I just finished my 17th book over the weekend and I'm on the 18th book interviewing actually the author today Lynn Twist and yeah so I said
1:37.2	this week that I would be talking about you know the first step to reading more and just
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