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My Reading Process 📚

How to read a book, Win friends on Twitter, Organise your tabs & many more...

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Mar 5, 2021
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My Reading Process 📚

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Hi 👋 Prado here

Read non-fiction during the day & Read biography and Fiction at night

3 Things I thought worth sharing with y’all

1. How to read a book 🙌

After reading over 50 books a year, I finally found a process that helps me get the most out of a book 📚 I’m sharing my secrets below… let me know if they work for you ❤️

I created an extensive video version of this newsletter (Includes 7 helpful tips)

Step 1:- Write Why

Before I start a book, I write why am I reading this book on one of the blank pages before the chapters start.
The idea behind this is to document our mindset, motive, expectations, etc.

Few questions that help me document this better:-

  • Why are you reading this book?

  • What the motive behind it?

  • What's your expectation from this book? What do you expect to learn out of it?

At the start it may look like a task... but eventually you'll enjoy doing this.

2. Highlight

A pen and a highlighter.

  • Pen = Read again (probably in future or just read it again to understand it better)

  • Highlighter = Document it. Take digital notes of things I highlighted

I use a pen to write stuff down around the book at random places.

I also keep a note nearby while reading if I think there is a need for stuff to be thought and written down. And later I take pictures of these notes and add them to my digital notes.

3. Digital Notes

Every Sunday… I spend some time converting my highlights, thoughts and important parts from the book into digital notes 🙌

I created an extensive video-sharing three ways on how to take digital notes

Step 4:- Reflect

Reflecting on what you learned…
how effective was it?
Did it fulfil the curiosity… was the expectation fulfilled?

Summarise the entire book.

Once you reflected you can share it on the internet. Blogs, Newsletters, Videos, Threads.

Here are my few threads:-

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20 learnings from Leonardo da Vinci 💯 {Thread 🧵}
1:18 PM ∙ Dec 15, 2020
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The Compound Effect 🚀 {Thread}
1:50 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2020
363Likes96Retweets
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Show your work: 10 Learnings {Thread} 🧵👇
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4:31 PM ∙ Sep 30, 2020
44Likes7Retweets

That’s it, guys. I have shared my secret.
If guys have any more ideas… you can share them with me, I’d love to know your secrets too ❤️

“Reading one good book 10 times is sometimes better than reading 10 books once”

(Share this quote on Twitter)

Happy reading 📚 and if you’d like to read more book threads, sign up 🙌


2) Few Interesting Things:

  • [Twitter Version] How to win friends and Influence people (Thread)

  • What If money was no object? by Alan Watts (Video)

  • “Today’s Creators will become global leaders of tomorrow”

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    "Today's creators will become global leaders of tomorrow" 🙌 By 2050, Most countries will be lead by people who are thinking clearly and sharing it with the world ❤️
    11:37 AM ∙ Feb 28, 2021
    61Likes3Retweets
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    We will see more of what Alexei Navalny has done with Russia 🚀 Youtubers, Bloggers, Thread-creators, Writers, Clear-thinkers and teachers are the future global leaders 🙏
    11:40 AM ∙ Feb 28, 2021
  • Picture of the week:- How to be a good person? (Blog)

  • Question of the week: How do you want people to remember you? What’s your legacy?

  • Quick hack of the week:- Organise your Tabs 🙌

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How to organise your tabs 🙌
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3:15 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2021
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  • I’m saying this because no one did

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Haircut is meditation 🙌
12:44 PM ∙ Feb 28, 2021
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3. “If you are going to influence anyway, influence people to read more books :)”

(Share this on Twitter)


Check out some previous newsletter:

  • Cycle of Emotion (Read)

  • Only way is UP (Read)

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Dipika
Mar 12, 2021Liked by Prado 🔑

Being an avid reader, I liked some of your hacks in reading books.

1. Why I am reading this book

2. Motive behind reading a book

3. Reflect on what I learned from the book.

Some reading hacks which I follow. This might be a great addition to your list:

https://youtu.be/BTip4HCO2Lk

https://youtu.be/ll2C2J6Q3SY

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