January 24, 2021: Perspective Blog

January 24, 2021

Now that you have made some tweaks in your life and environment to read more books, here is a further challenge:

Reading can teach you the best of what others already know.

Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know.

                                                                                                      (James Clear)

Reflection can be as simple as a few questions about the ideas in a book:

• What? (State the main ideas/key quotations.)

• So what? (How this could matter in your life.)

• Now what? (Adjust/change something in your life because of this)

• Guess what? (Your reflection-based experience is what only you can know. And pass on to others.)

Next week, more about thinking…