Why reading 100 books a year won’t make you successful

Aytekin Tank
The Startup
Published in
8 min readSep 13, 2018

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Originally published on JOTFORM.COM

Reading is trending.

The internet’s taken something uncool and given it a makeover.

Reading is the new kale: worth stomaching because it’s Good For Us.

So good, in fact, that we should do as much of it as we can. More is more! Everyone should be reading one book a week — no, wait, one book a day.

That’s why Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are successful, after all.

The more we read, the smarter we’ll get.

But where to find the time? We have to do it faster, faster, and faster still!

Blog posts tell us How To Read 300% Faster In 20 minutes! Or, How To Trick Yourself Into Reading More Books!

Speed reading has become a competitive sport: a race to see who can devour the New York Times Bestseller list quickest.

Reading is one of my greatest pleasures. Indeed, I have often shared how learning from others has helped me to bootstrap JotForm to 4 million users.

But all this stuff about speed, targets and numbers?

The truth about speed reading

Speed reading has recently picked up, well, speed, but it’s been around for decades.

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Aytekin Tank
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Written by Aytekin Tank

Founder and CEO of www.jotform.com || Bestselling author of Automate Your Busywork. Find more at https://aytekintank.com/ (contact: AytekinTank@Jotform.com)

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