There are such a lot of books on the market. It’s straightforward to get distracted and simply maintain randomly leaping from studying one guide to the following. It is usually one factor to learn a guide, one other factor to recall what you’ve gotten learn and one other to consider how the important thing learnings or classes will change your life.
About my studying technique: I want to learn deliberately by selecting themes that I need to study extra about after which looking and discovering the most effective books in these areas. I additionally learn a number of books at a time to get the crossover impact of my mixed ideas on the completely different topic areas or views from completely different authors.
I additionally consider an efficient studying technique wants an efficient note-taking technique. I make notes while I learn (within the margins if the guide is bodily or in my iPhone notes if on Audible) to share my reflections, ideas and opposing arguments.
So listed below are the 5 classes my 2020 studying listing taught me, that I’m taking into this new yr.
Lesson 1: Recognize the Current
I loved re-reading a number of Eckart Tolle novels (Energy of Now, Practising the Energy of Now, A New Earth) as he actually emphasises the significance of being current within the now, letting go of fabric gadgets and disassociating from the world’s labels. Tolle emphasises that to do that, consciousness is step one, consciousness that your variety of likes in your newest Instagram submit impacts how you’re feeling or consciousness of that feeling you get inside when somebody says they like your outfit. Comparable ideas are mirrored in Consciousness by Anthony de Mello, certainly one of my favourites from 2020.