<< Doing what has to be done

I have recently been spending some time with *Abby Mark Beale’s: 10 days to faster reading.

And I have to say there’s a rather interesting sense of satisfaction in the knowledge that we are improving one way or the other. Even if (as I have expressed countless times) I’m not the most patient person on earth.

Besides the book’s evident practicality, I’ve come around to think of how many times we put things on a side, things that simply had to be done. 

Learning to read a bit faster for example is something I’ve been trying to learn (unsuccessfully) for quite a long period of time; a skill which not only I personally value but that at the same time has a potential economical benefit for me.

Unfortunately, we cannot simply turn the time back to that which we wished we had done before; but, our past makes such a terrible excuse for what we chose not to do in our future. 

I personally am taking a lot of enjoyment in this newfound skill, specially because our time, the hours of the day, our life on this earth is overall: too short. 

And this storm of ideas, in this ocean of information as equally important as knowing what to read and our reasons to do so (What/why); is our capacity to absorb this information fast to advance our knowledge. To get new ideas. To create new and exciting things.

Funny how reading, one of the first skills that we learn, follows us through the whole of our life. And how the power in written word gives us access to universes and experiences beyond our wildest imaginations.

As George R.R. Martin says: A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. 

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*The Princeton language institute and Abby Mark Beale