{"id":3855,"date":"2017-11-19T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2017-11-19T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T23:35:14","slug":"power-learner-how-you-can-read-200-books-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/power-learner-how-you-can-read-200-books-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Learner: How You Can Read 200 Books A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/l\/FutGv\">course I&#8217;m teaching<\/a> &#8212; name your price if you <a href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/l\/FutGv\">pre-enroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/js\/gumroad.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a class=\"gumroad-button\" href=\"https:\/\/gum.co\/FutGv\" target=\"_blank\">Name Your Price!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>Reading is a dying art. <\/p>\n<p>And yet even as it dies, even as more and more people stop reading in favor of scanning, skimming, reblogging, LIKING, and so forth, it&#8217;s never been more important to become a real reader &#8212; if, that is, you want to live the life you&#8217;ve always imagined for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Reading promotes thought. <\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason one of the key secrets of the stratospherically smart and successful &#8212; meaning:<\/p>\n<p>All smart and successful people, almost without exception, are prodigious readers.<\/p>\n<p>The internet, for all its mind-spinning benefits and advantages, has one significant disadvantage:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s threatened to turn each and every one of us into scanners, meme-hunters, and startling-photograph-miners &#8212; at the expense of real reading. We take in a great deal &#8212; more than ever before in world history &#8212; but we skim most of that which we take in.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Greeks had a word for people who read a lot but who do not read well: sophomores.<\/p>\n<p>In this sense &#8212; the literal sense &#8212; the world is almost certainly more sophomoric than it&#8217;s ever been before, simply because of the sheer magnitude of data we have at our fingertips.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/242496862\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/242835469\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/242859569\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/242878950\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243028758\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243073295\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243243661\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243386259\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/243386259\">Two Things that can Instantly Speed Up Your Reading<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243400348\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243563815\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243564856\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/js\/gumroad.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a class=\"gumroad-button\" href=\"https:\/\/gum.co\/FutGv\" target=\"_blank\">Name Your Price!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brand-new course I&#8217;m teaching &#8212; name your price if you pre-enroll. 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And yet even as it dies, even as more and more people stop reading in favor of scanning, skimming, reblogging, LIKING, and so forth, it&#8217;s never been more important to become a real &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/power-learner-how-you-can-read-200-books-a-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Power Learner: How You Can Read 200 Books A Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2904],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}