Make Your Reading Effort an Investment (No Matter What You Read)

Everyone knows how to scroll through the pages of a book, but few know how to extract value from reading

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Do you want to take the next step in your ability to make money from reading? This article is for you! I promise that you will eventually understand how the reading activity differs entirely from what 99% of readers think.

Let’s start with a couple of questions:

• How much value do you expect to get from the time you spend reading?
• What does convert the content you read into value?

If you’ve never asked yourself these questions before now, let’s take a step back with an even more fundamental question:

• How many dollars are your readings worth?

Translating the reading of Stephen King’s latest novel in dollars can seem crazy, but it’s the first step toward reading as a business.

Reading as investment

Reading as a business requires a vocabulary switch.

Stop repeating, ‘I spend some time reading,’ and start saying, ‘I invest some time reading.’ As trivial as it may seem, the time we dedicate to any activity is not recoverable…