The #1 Habit that Can Make or Brake Us

How you can achieve a trained mind and step forward in life.

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Okay, it´s that time of the year. Yeah, we are going to talk about some of your favorite, productive, high-leverage themes in your life: reading. Btw, thanks

Winston

for inspiring this read!

In today´s brew, we are going to discuss the importance of creating this reading culture in our lives, and why it matters. The tips and tricks for achieving a better reading habit will be discussed in another edition of the brew. But for instance, hop into this amazing read!

Reading is not precisely the action of scanning through words, it´s understanding their true significance.

These words are chosen and are written for a reason.

Hundreds of wisdom bits are thrown into books, articles, and essays each day that passes.

For us to acquire them we need a deep reading skill.

“The reading life is a deep life. The screen-filled life can be primitive and exhausting.”

- Cal Newport.

Reading is the practice that cultivates our intellectual realm.

One that dictates all of the realms we have at our disposal: physical, emotional, and spiritual.

Our mind needs constant irrigation of valuable ideas for it to function at its best.

Yet we seem to prefer to let it function at its worst.

See this quote from Maryanne Wolf´s article Deep Reading in a Digital Age: “Deep reading is our species´ bridge to novel thoughts.” Maryanne Wolf

We are losing a strong ability much needed in today´s society. Knowledge is everywhere and it means everything.

We skim through different things each day, and the battle for reasoning and attention, for credibility and clarity is up to the roof.

Why then are we losing our connection to real knowledge? To the training that guides us to true wisdom?

We want to have power yet we stop the journey of seizing it. Ultimate power is not found in the exterior promises.

Ultimate power relies on our ability to create said power.

What better way to do so than to achieve dominance over our minds, thoughts, and actions?

Reading helps us with that. It pushes us to:

• New domains of expertise.

• New thought processes.

• Higher comprehension levels.

• Higher abstraction levels.

All of these benefits can be seen in:

• An overall better career development.

• Higher grades if you are a student.

• Faster analysis and writing abilities.

• Better communication skills and incredible flexes when it comes to knowledge trivia.

But hey, Alex, reading will only consume my time…

No. Reading will put your time to work, as it flourishes your thoughts with better conceptions, with better explanations.

It unveils the true steps you want to give in your life.

• Is your time better consumed playing video games all day? Watching endless content each day?

• Or is it better invested in a couple of pages a day? The choice is yours.

Do you want to differentiate yourself from others?

Start falling in love with the art of reading.

Want to seek new horizons? Better opportunities? Improved lifestyle?

Give reading a try.

Find inspirations that fuel your motivation for reading.

Magnificent thinkers and writers like

Robin Waldun

or

Recovering Overthinker

might help you in the process of falling in love with reading. Of falling in love with the deep cultivation of this fundamental habit.

Great authors like Cal Newport or Ryan Holiday can also help you get started.

There´s so much magic, value, and growth spread over several pages... written by wonderful authors, distilling years of wisdom.

It´s your time and opportunity to seize them.

A quick note, you can start this reading journey by subscribing and inviting more friends to the Better Thinking Newsletter. I promise the content will be so fun and engaging to read. Thanks for hearing me out!

⤴️ The Weekly Update

• 📚 Become hope for others. There´s no better feeling than taking other people´s feelings into account.

  When hard times hit, you should aspire to be the one they call for advice, for a warm hug, for a solid conversation. That means you´ve prepared well enough yourself to spread all of your spark with others. That´s when you know you are a leader.

• 💡 Being human is hard. I read

  Tanner Olson
  newest essay: it´s not easy to be human. And … had a bunch of thoughts and realizations right after it.

  I´ll share them in the near future, but right now, I´d want you to think about your answer to this statement: would you change the challenge of being a human?

  Comment it below or just keep it somewhere safe… I promise you´ll thank me later.

• 🎙️ How do you achieve success with your writing? Only viable answer: you write. Improve. You start thinking that your writing serves the readers and that your aim is trust and feeling, connection, and unique community building.

  Success will come if you start feeling and writing for your readers, not for yourself. Or if you do the latter, do it with care and teaching. That´s the key.

⚔️ What I´ve worked on this week

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✏️ Previous Life Brew

Hey, you might want to check it out =)

💭 The Lonely Reflection

What´s that tiny change you could do,

right now… that would motivate you

to make progress every single day?

Anything it can be… do it.

You need a little push before you can fly on your own.

Before we wrap this talk, just a quick reminder:

🧭 If you enjoyed what you read and found real value, please, be my guest and share your read with a friend or special person.

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Thanks for tuning in. Let´s make this time a great one.

See you on the next Life Brew, until then:

Stay happy 💭

-Alex