How to Rebuild a Reading Habit (14 Tips)

Reading is often one of the first things we put to the side when work, school or life gets busy. It's then a challenge to rebuild a productive reading habit.
These are 14 actionable steps that can help you slowly ease back into the world of books. The wide range of strategies and techniques means there is something insightful for everybody.
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00:00-0:30 Intro
0:30-1:40 1 - Study Overlap
1:40-3:02 2 - Start Small
3:02-4:14 3 - Bookshop Method
4:14-5:26 4 - Don't Finish
5:26-6:11 5 - Audiobook Stacking
6:11-8:07 6 - Purpose
8:07-9:28 7 - Block Time
9:28-11:03 8 - Carry a Book
11:03-12:12 9 - Trip to Nostalgia
12:12-13:14 10 - Timer Method
13:14-14:18 11 - Tracking
14:18-15:23 12 - Dialogue
15:23-16:30 13 - Remove Distractions
16:30-17:56 14 - Accountability

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  • @CatherineMarianne
    @CatherineMarianne7 ай бұрын

    Audiobook stacking is how I read Woolf's To the Lighthouse... without the audiobook, my eye and mind would wander and much of the stream-of-consciousness prose would just slide off my brain. With the audiobook on as I followed with the text, it was a revelation ... I stayed focused and was blown away by the genius and beauty of it.

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Sounds great, glad to see it working so well

  • @susannahdijkstra3260
    @susannahdijkstra32607 ай бұрын

    Very helpful, thank you so much ! ✨

  • @yosmuc
    @yosmuc7 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU!! So many valuable ideas ! 🙏

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Much appreciated!

  • @Xenomorph-kv1tv
    @Xenomorph-kv1tv7 ай бұрын

    I really like your videos and the tips you give. I recently got back into reading after a rough patch earlier this year (A bad relationship of 5 years) and I was frustrated and angry at myself that I couldn't read like I used to. But I came across you and you are helping and making me understand to be more relaxed and approach reading as something fun to do and not something to dread or fight or beat myself up over. Practice makes progress and I am slowly getting better at reading and understanding the story and noticing my overall mood is much more calm when I put the book down and run my errands. Thank you sir.

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Glad to see you pushed through that, and thanks I appreciate it

  • @orcastrojunior
    @orcastrojunior7 ай бұрын

    I love tip nr 7, it's my first time to hear it. Sounds great and more practical. I love tip nr 8 too, but I don't feel comfortable reading in the public.

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks, glad to hear it's something new

  • @funkymonkey8777
    @funkymonkey87777 ай бұрын

    Great tips!!! Thanks 🙏🏻 ❤

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Much appreciated

  • @Dudek28
    @Dudek287 күн бұрын

    I'm a pretty busy 39 year old with a young child. I try to have different hobbies outside of my boring 9 to 5 that pays the bills. As an adult I've taken up learning things that interested me back when I was younger but I never pursued as a career such as coding and music production and some other things. Also trying to work through the Khan Academy because I feel that Math was my absolute worst subject all throughout school so I would like to learn more of it now as an adult. What is that scheduling software you show at the 0.30 mark of the video? It looks very nice and I would like to explore using it.

  • @SLTYMILK
    @SLTYMILK7 ай бұрын

    My mom was just asking about how I read some of these denser books without falling asleep lol. I’ll share some of these with her

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Haha I hope they are of value

  • @kanyoninja2720
    @kanyoninja27202 ай бұрын

    I get neck pain from reason what can I do to help with the pain

  • @jesterdejoseph4835
    @jesterdejoseph48357 ай бұрын

    Good day sir. Is it better to study in the early morning than the evening time? What’s your opinion about studying then sleep for consolidation? Thanks a lot

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Evening sounds good but only if you know you can sustainably keep up focus. Whenever you are most alert is best. And I appreciate it too

  • @jesterdejoseph4835

    @jesterdejoseph4835

    7 ай бұрын

    @@odysseas__ thanks a lot sir.

  • @Ka112eb
    @Ka112eb2 ай бұрын

    As an Autistic ADHDer I am offended by your claim no one wants to read textbooks in their spare time.

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    2 ай бұрын

    Fair enough -some are good like that

  • @yanmezinskiy8817
    @yanmezinskiy88177 ай бұрын

    I can guess why you get so excited when you walk into a bookshop. Carl Mark said it's commodity fetishism in modern society. I'm just kidding )

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    Haha I don't feel the need to deny that

  • @Sakrin117
    @Sakrin1177 ай бұрын

    Jesus, 14 methods to get back to reading... really? How about opening a book? And reading? If you need more than that, there is something terribly wrong with you.

  • @odysseas__

    @odysseas__

    7 ай бұрын

    For some people, it's that obvious, but for others, it doesn''t hurt to have some help. Not every piece of advice is targeted at everyone.