Reading - Zeeshan Usmani

Reading for Purpose
What Differentiates You from the Rest
Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani
Fireworks: February 3rd 2019
Reading for Purpose
Why Read?
1
2 How to Read?
What to Read?
3
Find Time to Read

4
Disadvantages of Reading
5
Why Read?
Why it is Important to Read?
It’s Not Optional
Why Read?
• Books can give the courage to travel, conviction
to quit job, role models and heroes, and meaning
in a world where there is none
• Two common ways to Learn – Education and

Books
• Nothing is new under the sun. People have faced

similar problems, found the solution and have
written about it
Why Read?
“I have known no wise

people who didn’t read all
the time.”
~ Charlie Munger
Why Read?
• We have 60,000 thoughts a day. It comes from
whatever you have put in your mind
• You will become a good Human Being
• You will gain Information

• You will gain Knowledge and Become Wise
• You will know the difference between the two
• You will know how little you know

Why Read?
• It will give you Foundation to do bigger things

• Reading enhance Creativity
• Reading gives you Confidence
• You can Compare & Contrast
• You will develop Aesthetic Taste and art of Abstraction
• You will get Curiosity
• You will not get free time to “Waste”
• No Better Investment than Books
Why Read?
• Brian Tracy – Psychology of Achievement
• 3 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = Expert
• 5 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = National Authority
• 7 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = International Authority

How to Read?
Techniques to Institutionalize Reading
How to Read?
• Take Care of Your Eyes
• Think of Book as a Person

• Interview the Book
• Become friends
• Meet Again
• Read to Apply (not to Memorize)

• to improve your life
• If you can’t apply, its not reading, it’s
entertainment
How to Read?
• Set a Target
• Anything – 100 Pages, 20 Pages
• 4 Hours, 1 Hour?
• Set a Time
• Set Priorities
• Take Notes
• Pick a Place
How to Read?
• Read the Author
• Read Preface and Conclusion first
• No Distraction
• Read Multiple Books. Every book is read

differently
• Quote of the Book

How to Read?
• 3 Ways to Read – Skim, Scan, Cover to Cover
• What to Skip – Intro, Preface, Examples, Charts,

Extended Footnotes – The more you read the faster
you become
• Read Visually
• Use Pen, Highlighters
• Make Notes
Book Summaries? Articles?
• You make your own customized summary

• Out of context
• Book is different for each reader
• How many articles do you remember?

What to Read?
What is Worth Reading?
What to Read?
• Ask a Mentor
• Go back to Seminal Work
• Read Biographies, Up Skill and Problem Areas
• Yearly Targets
• Monthly Subjects
• What you want to be recognized for – Data Science,

Digital Transformation, VC Funding?
• How you define Success? Good Human Being,
Getting close to Allah?
• Problem Areas – Relationships, Managers?
• Big Ideas from Big Disciplines?
When Not to Read?
• Going against your goals
• Becoming a worst person
• There is not much you are learning

• Start Writing
• Problem: All those who should be reading are writing

Find Time to Read
I Am Too Busy to Read
Read 200 Books a Year - Do the Math
• 200-400 WPM -> 1200 WPM
• A Fiction Book = 50,000 Words = Max 2 hours
• 200 books * 50,000 words/book = 10M words
• 10M words/400 wpm = 25,000 minutes
• 25,000 minutes/60 = 417 hours

Read 200 Books a Year - Do the Math
• 417 hours = 17 Days
• 1 hour a day for a year
• Mobile Usage - 4 hours a day = 1,460 hours a

year = 102,200 hours in 70 years – 12 Years
of Life
• 608 hours on social media

2,250 Hours
= 93.75 Days
• 1,642 hours on TV
Find Time to Read
• 3 Years in Waiting
• Don’t Drive – Read
• Don’t Wait – Read
• Pair up things
• Audio Books
What Can Go Wrong?
• You will become Someone Else

• Curse of Knowledge
• You will become Lonely
• You will loose Friends
• You will go Silent
• It would be hard for you to understand the World
Around You
• People would think you’re smart
(while you know you’re not. It’s a continuous
guilt you have to live with)
Thank You
zusmani78@gmail.com

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Reading for Purpose

What Differentiates You from the Rest

Find Time to Read

• Two common ways to Learn – Education and

• Nothing is new under the sun. People have faced

“I have known no wise

• You will become a good Human Being

• You will gain Information

• You will know how little you know

• It will give you Foundation to do bigger things

• Brian Tracy – Psychology of Achievement

• 3 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = Expert

• 5 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = National Authority

• 7 Years – 1 Hour Per Day = International Authority

• Take Care of Your Eyes

• Think of Book as a Person

• Read to Apply (not to Memorize)

• Read the Author

• Read Preface and Conclusion first

• Read Multiple Books. Every book is read

• Quote of the Book

• 3 Ways to Read – Skim, Scan, Cover to Cover

• What to Skip – Intro, Preface, Examples, Charts,

• Use Pen, Highlighters

• You make your own customized summary

• How many articles do you remember?

• What you want to be recognized for – Data Science,

• Going against your goals

• Becoming a worst person

• There is not much you are learning

• Problem: All those who should be reading are writing

• 200-400 WPM -> 1200 WPM

• A Fiction Book = 50,000 Words = Max 2 hours

• 200 books * 50,000 words/book = 10M words

• 10M words/400 wpm = 25,000 minutes

• 25,000 minutes/60 = 417 hours

• 417 hours = 17 Days

• 1 hour a day for a year

• Mobile Usage - 4 hours a day = 1,460 hours a

• 608 hours on social media

• You will become Someone Else

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