But reading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding. Fitting in reading time is tough. When you have an always-on job and a schedule that won't quit, it's easy to say I just don't have time to read. But picture it as a light jog for your brain: reading will keep you sharp, spur creativity, and foster empathy. There are strategies you can use to carve out quality nose-to-book time. Here's how to read more, even if you're strapped for time.
On average , we wait seven minutes each time we order coffee, 32 minutes before each doctor's visit, and 21 minutes for a significant other to get ready to go out. Then there's the time you wait for the train or in line at the DMV—not to mention the time wasted waiting for meetings to start.
We bet we know what kept you company during that wasted time: your smartphone. The average American spends 2 hours, 42 minutes per day on their phones according to mobile analytics company Flurry.
We're consuming content, scrolling through Facebook and Instagram and trying to keep up on Slack. You can't curl up with a book for hours in those times, but you could read a bit. As Stephen King said, "The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. The wrong type of consumption is bad. Spend that time reading eBooks, quality web articles, newsletters and other informative content, and your spare time won't be wasted any more. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Dots are just ideas—from your life, experiences, mentors, and reading. The more dots you have, the more opportunities you have to connect dots and extract new insights. But you also want to make sure that the right dots are making it into your matrix.
Reading a wide array of content from a diverse group of sources is a great way to gather more dots to inform your work. However, if you aren't making an effort to filter those ideas and voices, you might end up throwing away 7 minutes on a clickbait post.
Which articles are actually worth your valuable reading time? As Tiago Forte of Forte Labs points out, relying only on your network for ideas ensures that you'll remain the dumbest person in the room. Think outside the news.
Sites like these list today's most popular content about a particular subject, along with discussions about it typically from industry insiders and experts. They're the perfect places to find quality content that's applicable to your work. Struggling to focus in on a resource? Try UsePanda : it's a browser extension that shows three to four streams of the top 10 pieces of content from your favorite curation sites in one page.
That way you can spend less time hunting down content, and more time reading it. Medium is designed for long-form articles and community discussion. It's the simplest way to blog.
That means there are tons of posts on Medium that won't have anything to do with your interests—along with a number of high quality pieces that are perfect for you. The Medium homepage collects the best posts of the day, and you can follow tags and specific publications to keep track of their best articles. Once you've connected the dots, you can share your thoughts in a Medium post of your own. You should pay attention to the best articles about your industry, and perhaps follow the blogs that consistently write quality content on the ideas you care about.
For that, you need a news reader app. You could use a feed reader app like Feedly or Fever to follow the specific sites you enjoy, or use a news curation app like Apple News or Google News to follow general topics and trends. A personal favorite of mine is Flipboard.
It consistently recommends the best articles about topics a user is interested in, and then lets them share or save them into magazines to keep a record of everything you've read. Now that you've found quality content to read, you'll need a way to read it in those minutes of downtime throughout your day. For that, you need a Read it Later app.
These tools let you to bookmark and download interesting articles to consume on the go. Just press a button in your browser or app when you find an interesting article, and the Read it Later app will log the text so you can read it offline. Many tools even include organization and search features, so you can build your own content database. There are tons of great read it later apps , but here are 4 of the best:.
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What do I do after that? Well, I need to make a decision and this is really an important decision that a lot of people forget about. Is this article worth my time? I move on to the next one. I want to get more detail, I want to read it.
Well, read it. What I do if I want to read this article fully. I simply just circle the title. And you know what? You just cross those out.
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