Quit a book, read more books

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Smart readers don't finish what they don't like

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
0:05.3	podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.
0:08.2	If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.
0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
0:25.2	Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:29.6	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.9	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
0:41.6	Good morning.
0:43.7	This is Laura.
0:46.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:49.2	Today's tip is to quit any books that you are no longer enjoying.
0:55.6	Doing so will actually help you read more books in the long run.
1:02.0	Over on Twitter a few weeks ago, a gentleman posted that he found himself abandoning more books
1:07.6	than usual, and he wondered if this was just part of growing older.
1:13.6	I replied that it might be, but for this reason.
1:18.4	Eventually, you realize that you are only going to read so many books.
1:24.4	If you read 50 books a year, which is a lot, and live for 50 more years, which is
1:31.6	kind of an optimistic assumption for many of us, that is only 2,500 more books.
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