Leaders are Readers


BooksRick Warren article: How to get more out of your reading time

I may be a little biased about reading here. I never had a TV until I was 12… a curse at the time (very embarrassing to try and do an assignment about your favourite TV show), but a blessing looking back. So I got big time into reading!

A couple of quotes:

Practice active reading. Mark up your books. I always read with a pencil in my hand. Even when I’m reading magazines, I’ve got a pencil in my hand. A book only becomes your book when you mark it up.

Yep… Clean bible, dirty Christian. Dirty bible, clean Christian. Carries over to books… as much as I hate to mark a new book… gotta do it!

The best way to save time in reading is to be discriminating. James Bryce says “Life is too short to spend it reading inferior books.” More than 1,000 books are produced around the world each day.

That’s a lot of reading. Try the books that are recommended to you, not just the ones on sale!

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Todd McKeever
Posted on:
July 14, 2007 at 8:18 am

Can I ask you or anyone that reads this blog:
Do you have any great system for retrieving all the great nuggets you mark up in your books and magazines?

I agree in being what i have been known as “aggressive reader” by marking your books and all up. Just curious how you store or file or whatever so that you can retrieve all those nuggets.

I have my secretary go through my read books and type the stuff i have marked up and file them in files on the server under different file topics. i mark up the inside of the book with the page number that the nugget is on, I assign a number to the nugget with a file topic that it should be filed under on the server.

What do you do?

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Written by:
Dave Wakerley
Posted on:
July 15, 2007 at 4:12 am

Todd,

My plan is to BLOG them. But let’s be honest I haven’t done that in a while so there goes that theory.

Any REALLY good stuff that speaks to me goes into my journal though. I should get back to blogging them.

Dave

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Todd McKeever
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July 15, 2007 at 4:55 am

Can I also ask a follow up question of your blogging?

Do you do anything with your blog entries? Do you first write in word and then copy paste into your blog so you have files of your blog? Do you publish your blog into a book?

If you want to find a great quote for example that you had read how do you go about it? If you want to find that great story you had in a book how do you find it through your blogs?

Just asking, I am very curious how everyone else does this. We have so much great information how does everyone handle it for themselves?

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Written by:
Larry Shallenberger
Posted on:
July 19, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Todd,

I get into the habit of xeroxing pages that I find inspiring. Also copy the book cover and the verso page. And then I paper file it. When I write, this allows me to quote the book with and legally document it in my book MS without having to find, borrow, or buy the book.

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Written by:
Dave Wakerley
Posted on:
July 21, 2007 at 8:28 am

Todd,

Because the search is so good on the blog I just post em straight up. I can usually find them later.

Dave