How To Read a Book — How Successful People Read Books

Reading books is as good for your brain as eating healthy food for your body. Reading helps to improve memory, upgrade your thinking capabilities, reduce stress, improve knowledge, vocabulary, focus along with many other benefits. In fact, every successful person has one trait in common and that is their habit of reading books.

Warren Buffet reads 4–5 hours in a day, Bill Gates reads 50 books in a year, Mark Zuckerberg says I read daily to learn more about the world and different cultures. The list doesn’t end here and I am sure you must have come across celebrity book recommendations too on YouTube or Instagram.

However, did anyone tell you how to read a book?

Let me be very honest in this article. I will tell you exactly how I read and how many other successful people read books.

How Successful People Read Books:

1. Don’t read a bestselling book: I have asked 20 people how they choose books? And the answer was either they pick a bestselling book or they just see on Instagram if any book is popular among book bloggers. This is one of the biggest mistakes every beginner makes. First, you pick a bestselling book because you heard the book is great and reading helps in numerous ways then you find the book boring and dump the idea of…