Write Blog Posts Readers Love: A Step-By-Step Guide
I started to read the book, “Write Blog Posts Readers Love
” and the first exercise is to write a 300 to 500-word blog post that you do not have to publish. Should you stop reading a book that you are not enjoying popped into my head because it is something that I had been thinking about.
My answer to that question is, it depends why you are reading the book in the first place. During the last five years, I have stopped reading a book if I didn’t like it. But in those cases, I was reading the books for entertainment.
Recently, I had to read two books, and I wouldn’t say that I enjoyed either. But not finishing them was not an option since I was hired to write book study guides for both books. The books were very well written, and dealt with important issues, but it took a lot out of me to finish them. Have you ever been in that situation?
Have you read?
Become a Skilled Reader: Read More of the Right Books in 2019
Years ago, for both How to Read a Book
by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Forensic and Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, I attempted to read each book three to four times before I could slog through them. And it was worth it to put in the effort. On the other hand, I know three people who stopped reading How to Read A Book because they were not enjoying the experience.
I think that you have to use your judgment when deciding if you should stop reading a book if you are not enjoying it.
- Is the book required reading for your job or industry?
- Is there a book summary of the book that you can buy if it’s required reading?
- Are there other books that contain the same information?
- Do you really need to know the information in the book?
- Can you get away with reading only specific sections of the book?
I’ve read a lot of blog posts that tell you to stop reading a book if you are not enjoying it, but life isn’t always straightforward. You always have to use your judgment. If you’re new to this blog, and you take the time to browse it, you’ll notice that I’ve written countless times that before you read any book, have a reason for doing so. Are you reading for entertainment, information, or to further your understanding of a topic? Once you have a purpose for reading, pre-scan the book before you start reading.
Pre-scanning books first before reading works when you’re reading for information and to further your understanding. And it’s only effective if there is a table of contents, index, preface, introduction, and so on. Today, many books for not have those sections. In that case, you and only you can decide if you should invest the time to read the book.
Please do not stop reading a book because you think the level of difficulty of the book is too high for where you’re right now. Depending on the book, you can temporarily stop reading the book. That’s why I always stress the importance of reading diverse books in every sense of the word – gender of the author, age of the author, country where the author was born, genre of the book, level of difficulty of the contents.
If you read broadly and diversely, you will eventually be ready to read difficult books. I’m going to let you on a little secret, I was trying to read How to Read a Book, and Flow before I was ready for them. I wasn’t a skilled reader yet. So, that’s something to keep in mind.
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