November 10, 2025
Read Good Books
When was the last time you sat down and spent your time reading a good book?
There is something nostalgic about the change in weather that provokes one to turn on the fireplace, pour a hot cup of coffee, and sit in your favorite chair with a narrative that takes you on a journey far away from where your feet are planted.
Unfortunately, in today’s day and age, this nostalgic experience is not commonly engaged in.
In fact, I dare say, it is something that is portrayed in old movies that we reminisce about as we scroll through AI generated rooms on our smartphones.
What is crazy about this scenario is the following.
If we continue on our current consumption habits with technology, the statistical average is graphed to show that the normal everyday human will spend roughly 44 years of their life staring at a screen.
That is insane.
Just think of everything you could accomplish in 44 years of your life.
What is even more crazy about this is that the information that is consumed on the screens is designed to keep us dumb, distracted and outright enslaved to the device we are on.
It is time to make a change.
When I first encountered 75 Hard, one of the daily habits that had to be cultivated was reading 10 pages of a self improvement book in physical form.
No Amazon Fire. No Tablet. No Kindle.
A physical book.
From a very young age, I have loved reading but I never really measured how many pages I read of a book a day, especially when it related to personal improvement or a subject matter I was interested in.
I was more interested in books like Lord of The Rings and The Wheel of Time.
However, since I first completed 75 Hard, one habit that has stuck is the physical reading of books in a subject matter that is interesting to me daily.
What I have discovered is that I have a great desire to read books that improve my mind in many different arenas – spiritual, historical, psychological to name a few.
I have also discovered that once you read one business book you have pretty much read them all and that for me, they are usually a waste of time and energy.
You see, good books inform and elevate your mind.
Good books take your thoughts away from self-centeredness and make you wiser and better as a person.
Good books encourage you to analyze ways you can improve yourself and those around you.
Good books are the way that we reclaim our sanity in a technologically driven world.
My recommendation is to take the 75 Hard commitment and read 10 pages a day.
For some of you that is incredibly difficult.
For others, that is a breeze.
Regardless, the goal is to cultivate the habit of reading good books.
P.S. If you turn into a book nerd like Dr. Kramer…you might just start a book list on Excel of every book you read with a notes tab about what you took away. Then you could start your own blog that offers up the wisdom that you have acquired.
