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Books I’m Reading And Lessons I’m Learning
I learned, not as early as I should’ve, that reading helps a lot when it comes to improving one’s communication skills.
I don’t know what triggered my sudden interest in reading; maybe it’s because I realized something was missing in my pursuit — creating and sharing value. I noticed that my vocabulary was too limited for someone who aims to be understood and stand out in the crowd.
I’m not going to sugarcoat my ambition here — I want to make a difference, a big difference. I don’t often talk about it fearing that I might sound arrogant or be perceived as something I’m not, but those days are over (I hope).
The book that drove me to follow this path — reading and discipline — is Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Before that, I always made excuses for not reading, claiming I was too busy studying subjects like new programming tools or learning a new programming language.
Changing your habits is not easy. From what I’ve been learning, we don’t change a bad habit, we replace it with a new and healthy one.
In my case, I had to learn how to split my time and organize my new routine which now includes reading first thing in the morning, writing on Medium and here on Substack.