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link to 1 Bad Habit Killing Your Reading Retention (and a Trick to Stop Doing it)

1 Bad Habit Killing Your Reading Retention (and a Trick to Stop Doing it)

Learn the one bad habit that hurts your ability to remember what you read, and discover a simply way to overcome it.

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The Value of Adding a Wisdom Reading Session to Your Morning Routine

Learn how spending time with a wisdom text each morning can radically improve your day and help you grow intellectually and spiritually.

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link to How Reading Goals Can Hurt Your Learning & Reading Life (+ a Better Metric)

How Reading Goals Can Hurt Your Learning & Reading Life (+ a Better Metric)

Learn why books/yr goals can discourage good reading practices and damage your relationship to books, and get a better metric for measuring your reading success.

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How to Use Books to Enhance Your Hobbies & Experiences

Learn how to use reading to form a deeper connection with your hobbies and get more out of them.

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link to What to do When You Fail Your Self-Education Plan (How to Bounce Back Stronger)

What to do When You Fail Your Self-Education Plan (How to Bounce Back Stronger)

Once in a while we all fail to finish reading lists and study plans, but how do we bounce back and turn the failure into a lesson?

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link to How to Become as Well-Read as John Adams: 8 Tips From his Reading Life

How to Become as Well-Read as John Adams: 8 Tips From his Reading Life

John Adams was absurdly well-read. His biographer, David McCullough, put it like this:  "In an age when educated men took particular pride in the breadth of their reading, he became one of the...

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About the Author

After graduating college with an econ degree I realized I was still anything but well-educated. Over the last 4 years, I've been trying to fix that, autodidact-mode — by reading books and engaging in self-directed study across multiple subjects. On this blog, my goal is to share my learnings and help others get a well-rounded education outside of school. Education, after all, is a lifelong process, one well worth the investment.

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