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How To Read a Book a Week | Jim Kwik
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This video shows how to read a book each week by breaking it into a daily 45-minute commitment—no speed reading needed. Jim Kwik explains how to treat reading like a non-negotiable appointment during your waking hours, ensuring steady progress without burnout.
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How much time does this method require per day?
45 minutes of reading.
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Reading a book a week sounds ambitious. The math says otherwise — and Jim Kwik breaks it down to the minute.
In this video, Jim walks through the simple calculation that makes a book a week not just possible but manageable for anyone. The average book runs about 64,000 words. The average person reads around 200 words per minute. That works out to 320 minutes per book — or just 45 minutes of reading a day. No speed reading required.
The real obstacle, Jim argues, is not time. It is scheduling. Most people treat reading as something they will do when they get around to it — which means it rarely happens. The shift is simple: block it in your calendar the same way you would a meeting with your boss, an investor, or a family member you would never cancel on. Reading is self-care, and self-care is not selfish.
One more crucial detail: schedule your reading when you are actually awake. Most people reach for a book late at night and have trained their brain to associate reading with falling asleep. That association works against you. Pick a time when you are alert, protect it, and the book gets done.
Leaders are readers. If knowledge is power, reading is your superpower.
⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 — Introduction: why reading gives you a massive advantage
0:29 — The maths: how 45 minutes a day gets you one book a week
1:15 — The real secret: you have to schedule it
1:57 — Schedule reading when you are awake and alert
2:21 — About Jim Kwik
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Mindvalley published this 2:59 video tutorial on October 25, 2018. It has been watched 8,735,018 times on YouTube.
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How to Read a Book a Week - Harvard Business Review
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A strategy for nonfiction. Executive Summary. Reading gives us access to great ideas, allows us peek into the minds of the smartest people, and gives us fuel to be valuable contributors in ...
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How to Read a Book a Week | HuffPost
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How to Read a Book a Week. 03/05/2014 03:27 pm ET Updated May 05, 2014 Yep, I finally did it. I read over a book a week all of the past year.
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How to Read a Book in a Week: 13 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
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Reading an entire book in a week can be an easy feat for some, but for others it presents a difficult challenge. While some need to read a book in a week for a school assignment, others want to do it for the challenge,…
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