用这个简单的方法养成阅读的习惯
When I was reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, a collection of American entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant's wisdom, a line struck me. It rang so true.
Like any skill, to those who don't do it habitually, reading can seem impossible to cultivate. It doesn't come naturally to people. But some things do: interests, hobbies, topics. So going for the low-hanging fruit is sound advice. I stumbled on this path last year.
Although I read a fair amount in grad school, for many years reading books was not a habit for me. To recultivate it, I started to read several books on poker, a topic I was obsessed about. No, devour was more like it. I couldn't put down the books. I was reading all the time. I was completely in the reading mode, much as I was in the sleeping mode at night, undistracted. I was reading so much that I doubted that I actually read that much. To borrow psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's term, I was in a reading "flow".
I was not crazy about reading; I was crazy about poker. So by reading what I was crazy about, I habituated reading, first about poker, and soon reading in general. I was doing two things simultaneously: learning about a subject matter (poker) and honing the raw skill (reading). Before long, I found myself reading multiple books at a time. Within six months, I finished over a dozen. A lot by my standards.
So what are you obsessed with? Food? Fashion? Pop culture? A sport? A brand? A country? Whatever it is, start from here. Pretty soon you will see the magic. Abracadabra!
Hope you find my story inspiring.
孟庆伟 Justin
个人微 ID：justinqmeng
现象级英语联合创始人
初中英语 70 分（满分 100）
两次获雅思写作 8 分，口语 8 分
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