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Originally Posted by JorgeHTQH  It's hard for me to read a book from cover to cover if it doesn't GRAB me right from the start.
I'll go ahead and get the book, read it, live it and see what happens :>)
Thanks,
Jorge |
Sounds like you should start at the section on self discipline first.
If you're that concerned, read Steve's
free sample chapter.
Personally I wouldn't find it difficult to read a book that I knew is highly likely, beyond almost all reasonable doubt, to be good (Steve's book will no doubt be better than good). I'm really picky with what I read, too (probably more pick than other people; I have a pretty specific criteria).
I find that if you make the right decision from the start, even if the beginning of the book doesn't seem great, it's best to give the book the benefit of the doubt and keep reading. So far, every time I've thought a book that I thought was good wasn't very good, I eventually started to like it as I put things in proper context or I stopped resisting what I was reading.
If you have trouble getting through books, just read a bit every night before you go to bed. I tend to have trouble finishing books if I don't do that, since I rarely read books during the day (too noisy, and I have nowhere comfortable to lie down and read. I mostly like using my bed for sleep, not furniture).
I'll point out that you used a pretty vague definition of "book." When you say "book," are you referring to the writing quality? The content quality (i.e. the actual ideas presented)? The practicality? The storytelling and narrative-style expression (or lack thereof)?
Perhaps if you define this, you can figure out why you find it hard to read some books, do something about remedying that issue so that you become more self-aligned and talent-aligned, and then
I know lots of people who just accept certain traits of theirs as static, unchangeable "parts of themselves," which is, to me, logically ridiculous and personal development-wise, pretty unsound.
If you have an aspect of yourself that isn't allowing you to be effective and utilise your potential, change it so that it is. You'll probably find that in doing so you become *more* of yourself, not less, since you'll be expressing and aligning with more of your potential.