How to Read Books Effectively: 7 Stoic Tips for Better Comprehension

To be a great reader, it is not enough that you read, it’s how you read. It’s not about reading to impress people or for the mental gymnastics. It’s not about pouring inputs into your brain. It’s about getting better! It’s about filtering what gets into your brain. It’s about finding useful knowledge, knowledge you can use in your actual life. It’s about putting the information up to the test, examining it, seeing how it applies to your life, asking yourself how you might use it, what it’s prompting you to think. If you want to become a great reader, the Stoics can help. We built out their best insights into our Read to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge. The 2022 live course will take place across 5 weeks at a pace of 2 emails a week (~30,000 words of exclusive content). Additionally, there will be weekly LIVE video sessions with Ryan Holiday, author of 12 books about Stoic philosophy which have sold more than 5 million copies in over 30 languages. This will be a live course. Beginning on TUESDAY MAY 17, all participants will move through the course together at the same pace. 📚 Registration is now officially open at https://dailystoic.com/reading ✉️ https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 00:00 Intro 01:17 1. Develop a reading practice 2:10 2. Make time to read 03:49 3. Find a master 04:48 4. Become functionally literate 05:19 5. Re-read the Stoics 05:58 6. Don't read too much 06:57 7. All leaders must be readers Instagram: ​https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism​ #DailyStoic​ #RyanHoliday​