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Retaining what you readProtocol16 minModule lesson

The system for reading fifty books a year

Arithmetic, selection, rituals and a note library: the complete system, with no heroics.

The arithmetic

Fifty books a year is about one a week.

An average professional book runs to sixty thousand words. At two hundred and fifty words a minute, that is four hours. At five hundred, two hours. With preloading and strategic reading, an hour and a half on average.

An hour and a half a week. That is less than most people spend on their phone in a day and a half.

The obstacle is not time. It is the absence of a system.

The four pillars

1. Ruthless selection

The most important rule: abandoning a mediocre book is a skill, not a failure.

The rest is part of the Speed Reading module

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