Books

I’ve always been a slow reader. I thumb through the pages back and forth — or I daydream for a while about a character or a scenario. This means it can take months to finish.

I was amazed (and a bit sheepish) to learn how others can fly through books, even completing some in just a day. Was I missing something?

I saw this quote from educator Mortimer Alder on books: “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

It resonated. Volume and speed are not the north star, but impact. So I need to focus less on how fast it is and more on how it feels.