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Before Breakfast

Make time to read

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Even busy people can find time to read. With this episode’s strategies, you’ll plow through War and Peace in no time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Daniel Tosh, host of a new podcast called Tosh Show.

0:03.4

I'll be interviewing people that I find interesting, so not celebrities, and certainly not

0:07.8

comedians. We'll be covering topics like religion, travel, sports, gambling, but mostly it will be about being a working

0:16.3

mother.

0:17.3

If you're looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that will really make

0:21.3

you think, this isn't the one for you.

0:24.0

Listen to Toss Show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Today's tip is about how to make more time to read.

0:39.4

When I ask people what they want to spend more time doing, exercise always comes up first, and don't worry.

0:47.0

We're going to talk a lot about that in future episodes.

0:50.0

But reading is a close second.

0:52.0

Indeed, if you'd asked me a few years ago what But reading books, I would have told you I would have said reading books. I would have told

1:00.0

you I was busy, and I had very limited time to read. Then I tracked my time for a year. A year,

1:07.0

incidentally, when I had four children under the age of eight, including an infant, which I thought was a pretty good excuse.

1:14.0

My time logs were clear.

1:15.0

My problem was not a lack of time to read.

1:18.0

I had spent 327 hours reading that first year,

1:22.0

which is almost an hour a day.

1:25.0

But I couldn't remember many good books I had read.

1:28.0

The truth is I had spent the vast majority of those 327 hours reading online news stories and gossip magazines.

1:37.0

Why? Well, that's what was easy and available when I had open time.

1:41.0

So that is what I read.

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