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4 Ways to Finish More Books & Remember What You’ve Read

My intention is to always have books that are unfinished on the shelf. Before I finish a book, I identify what I’m reading next.

Harrison Wendland
7 min readAug 25, 2020

When I was younger we had book reading competitions in class and I would usually win or at least nearly win. I would read 15, 20, even 30 books in a month.

At the young age that I was at, most of the books that I was reading were pretty short and wouldn’t take long to read.

Then I lost my way for a while and didn’t read a book through all of high school and the first few years of college.

After reading that the average CEO read an average of 50 or 60 books a year, I thought I had better get back on track.

If I aspired to become a CEO, it was imperative that I picked up on their actions.

To become a reader, I needed to read.

Here are the 4 things that I’ve consistently done since starting reading again and now completing more than 300 books in 3 years.

1.Maintain a booklist

Keep the Pages Turning

After realizing I should get back into reading, one of the first things that I did was truly expand the…

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Harrison Wendland
Harrison Wendland

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