The book is a good and quick primer on approaching reading business books as an act of investment and how to maximize the useful, valuable insights one can extract from the process. Besides extolling the virtues and necessity of such reading, the author provides several time-tested principles, some of which are probably counter to what most people have been taught at school about reading, such as:
- finding just one great sentence that imparts actionable advice alone makes a business book worthy of its price; - don't feel guilty about not finishing a book from cover to cover; - read with a clearly defined purpose in mind, rather than a certain number of books to go through; - deliberately read books containing arguments or opinions against ours; - engage in topic-based reading for in-depth understanding of a topic.
A useful list of 11 guidelines is also presented for sifting through tens of thousands of business books to find those that may be more worthy of our time.
So many ideas that I cannot wait to implement in life, and definitely I will.
Interestingly, the author recommends not to set up something like reading x books this year, which I just did at the beginning of the year with Goodreads reading challenge. Shall I quit now?