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Read great books twice

by | Oct 25, 2023 | Books I Love, Open Leadership, Writing I Love

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The act of reading books is something people are doing less and less in our world of smartphones, social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles. If, however, you are curious about the world, and if, perhaps, you also would like to have more knowledge and understanding of our world than others, then reading books is a simple “hack” for any of us.

There are simply so many books out there one can read on any topic. In fact, one of the reasons I started this blog over 2,000 posts ago was that I would often listen to clients or others I met, then say “Have you read this book?”, to which the answer was often along the lines of “no, I haven’t got time to read that many books”, so I would then firs tell them the core points of the book, then go home and write a blog post about the core topics in the book to share with others and add to my library of shared learnings online.

With that, one thought for you today (other than “read more books”!) is, rather than reading book after book, sometimes choose to read a great book twice.

The list of great books I have read twice is long, so today I will give you some that I have read more than twice, some as many as ten or more times. Oh, and for each of these, I include a link to a blog post I wrote around the book. For some of these, if you search my site for the author’s name, you will see I have written about their writing and thoughts multiple times.