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Over the years of reading numerous books, I have developed and refined my process for absorbing information from books. It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand that the point of reading so many books is not to say that I have read x number of books every month or every year, but to make small improvements and changes in my life for the better.
So while at first, I started off proudly telling everyone and anyone that I knew that I was reading 50+ books every year, I started to really look at the books that I read to understand how my life was changing. And for the most part, it wasn’t, which meant that I had to think about how and why I was reading books.
I looked at systems that other prolific readers use including Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday and others, and started to try out some of those practices in my life. Here is a breakdown of the system that I use to help me get the most out of books:
Choose books carefully
The first, and terribly important lesson I learned was that I need to choose the books that I invest time into carefully. I’m a strong believer that I can learn something from every book I read, no matter whether the book is objectively good or not, but I also realized that there are some books that I learned a lot more from.
