How to read a book.
The most basic article that actually works it's way into your system.
If you want to start a book as someone with focus issues, the last thing you should do is start the book from page one.
Imagine you’re inside a moving car and the car is moving really fast. You won’t notice most of the things that’re passing by you until you find something interesting enough to stop the car and look at it. When you do that, you start getting to know about that interest even more. Slowly, you get to the root of your interest because the sudden flash was catchy enough for you to follow up on the beginning. This is the same with books.
Open a page, do it randomly. Maybe it’s page 45 or 67, doesn’t matter. Skim through the book until you find a hook. Wherever you find it, start reading from there; no matter where you start, the whole picture will find you if you’re invested enough to know about it.
A book might lead you to things you’ve never imagined. But you can’t know that if you never even start. And I’m trying to make it easy for you by not suggesting that you start from page one. Start from your spark. And to find that spark, you need to move through pages, even the pages with smudged letters that hurt your eyes and head. Once you find your spark, you won’t even care about the smudges. You will crave the big picture no matter what.
Starting doesn’t mean it has to be an exact starting point. Not ignoring your spark is the greatest starting point. An organized desk often makes us clueless, makes us wonder where to start from. But if we don’t start from a messy desk, we can’t find our way back to organizing our desk again.
Skim through the pages of that book, of that chapter you’ve been ignoring for weeks. There’s something waiting for you there.
