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Track sixteen, unit seven, with time on your hands

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Finally, tip number seventeen is to read instead of watching TV, and investment and knowledge pays the best interest. And reading does a couple of things beyond actually the information in the books. It improves your writing ability, it improves your critical thinking ability, it improves your focus and it improves your communication skills. My habit right now is I read for about thirty minutes to one hour before I go to bed every night, usually at around seven o'clock. I also spend at least one long morning, usually on the weekends, hopefully outside in nature, just reading a lot. And I'm always reading one non-fiction book and one fiction book. Usually I read the fiction book before I go to bed to kind of calm my brain down a little bit and then one non-fiction book either on those early mornings or in the first part of my nighttime reading. But if a book bores me or I really don't like it, I just stop reading it. Life's too short. And my reading rate in the past couple of years has improved dramatically to about, I used to read about one book a year, but now I read about probably one book every three weeks, which is for me is pretty good. I also have a list on my website with my favorite books I've ever read that you can check out. However, I think there are a couple of great lists on the internet with the a hundred best books to read all time and those kind of things and I'll think those down below. But the most important thing is just start a reading habit, read whatever you're interested in and that's the way I kind of ramped up my reading. I started reading fun books that I really liked to read, like I read the "Red Rising" series, the "Mistborn" trilogy, which is awesome, the "Harry Potter" books, all those are great ways to kind of get your reading habits started and then you can start to introduce more non-fiction books, more like learning kind of books. But I always have a fun fiction book going on in the background 'cause I wanna do this for fun still as well as learning a little bit more about life, and history and all that, blablabla stuff.