would you like a really simple tip to help you read more of the great Classics in the upcoming year because in this video I'm going to give you exactly that so if you're someone who already does lots of reading but would like to introduce more of the classics or maybe your New Year's resolution is to start reading more and want to go to the really great books then this video is really going to help you please watch it to the end because in it we're going to look at first the tip which will sound so
simple then we're going to take a look at what that tip will actually achieve for you actually visibly show you what kind of books you could read in the year using the tip and then we're going to look at two major benefits of applying this tip as opposed to any other way of reading and finally we're going to look at the biggest reason people stop reading and if you can understand that you can get past all of the inertia all of the setbacks and by the end of this year you'll have read a number of
the great Classics so having said that let's dig in shall we so here's the simple method that will guarantee you read a good number of great Classics this year if you apply it it's this set aside a time in the day to read just 12 pages of a book and no more so the two places I recommend this mainly are if you're an early bird when you get up and having your coffee read 12 pages of a book that you've picked or go to bed a fraction earlier and read 12 Pages now that's not a
lot for most readers that will work out at about 25 to 30 minutes in the day if you read at talking Pace then you're looking at 36 minutes to 40 minutes in the day now how doable is that if you're in bed instead of scrolling and then regretting it because you've wasted like that goes on for hours doesn't it just reading 12 pages of a classic work a day now what I'm going to do now is show you exactly what that will look like by the end of this year how much you could have read
just reading 12 Pages a day so here's a question how much do you think you would read in a year if you just spent half an hour before bed reading 12 pages of a book every day I'm going to show you and you'll be amazed you could read The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald ulyses by James Joyce In Search of Lost Time volume one Swan's Way by Marcel PR 100 Years of Solitude by by Gabrielle Garcia Marquez the rather renowned catcher in the Ry by JD Salinger the brilliant 1984 by George Orwell Anna kenina
by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville and finally the very passionate and fierce withering Heights by Emily Bron those books actually are nine of the top 10 classic books of all time according to the greatest books.org reading 12 Pages a day 30 to 40 minutes at night you will read all of that in one year now stick with me because I want to explain not just what you've read but if you belong to my patreon community you'll know the Mantra is it's not amount it's how well you read could I just ask you if
you're enjoying this video to take the time to press the like button it takes just one second from you and yet it does so much good for me and for all YouTubers who you enjoy it's hard work and we're trying to share our best so if you just press the like button that's fantastic now let's carry on so now I just want to talk to you about two massive benefits you get from Reading 12 pag Pages a day and how in some respects reading this way is superior to reading any other way I'm going to
give you an example by using this great work Le Miser by Victor Ugo now I've been 12 paging my way through this for the past eight days and it's been wonderful and I'll tell you why this is the benefit of reading a short amount every day is it allows you to enter the book The biggest mistake people make in Reading Classics or any books really is they think if I read Lots I'll know lots that is not true if you belong to my Patron Community you'll know the Mantra it's not how much you read it's
how well you read reading only 12 Pages allows you to submerse yourself into a story you get to talk with an author you get to pay attention to what they're saying rather than just trying to get the the out lines of the story because you're bombing your way through it even if you have great comprehension and read fast reading only 12 Pages gives you that time to take a pen which makes all reading better and make notes in the book or in a pad to the side of a book to take the time to underline
a quote or write it out in full to write your thoughts on some observation that the author is making or what it makes you think of in your own own life or from other books you've read I'm going to give you just a very simple example of that so only read you know 8 days worth of so 96 pages um going in 12s just listen to some of these quotes which I've underlined and by underlining it means I've gone back and thought about them more and let them sink in when there are many mouths which
talk there are very few heads which think not a lovely statement so p expressed we got another one over here um speaking of a man who wanted to go to heaven but actually he's a bit of a miser and he's very materialistic he just says oh there is Monsour gband purchasing Paradise with a sue the Sue being the small currency in France a penny um what about this examine the road over which the fault has passed so instead of judging a person by mistakes how about examining the road they life course up to that point
before judging harshly how someone has acted um this one's lovely he sought to counsel and calm the despairing Man by pointing out to him the resigned man and to transform the grief which gazes Upon A Grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a star and so on it goes you know when we endeavor to read the classics we think of ourselves as improving ourselves getting some wisdom and insight from the great writers of the past and yet we fall into the Trap of thinking if we read more we'll get more no
Let It Go through you permeate you and by reading 12 Pages a day you have the luxury of time time's blessing to be able to draw something up and carefully go through and just enjoy being a citizen of the world rather than a frantic tourist who only gets the glaring sights and the famous bits be a citizen and know its Alleyways all its back streets all its inhabitants the other benefit you get from Reading 12 Pages a day is so good that I can't not mention it and it is it gets you off a device
now I love going on devices I love YouTube I love watching videos I love researching on the internet all sorts of things but we spend so much time now especially on the addictive what's it called the um attention economy things have been trained to just keep us going on 30 second to one minute clips and then we feel fatigued the Mind loves to dwell on things once it's trained to dwell on things and learn and to be able to relax and spend time in something which feels that you've achieved or you're going somewhere there is
it's been argued There Is No Greater Joy it's greater than even all of the physical Pleasures um doing 12 Pages a day before bed releases you from exhaustive dopamine hits and actually gives you something very worthwhile it also develops a sense of self-control a sense of patience a sense of stick to itiveness as I've once heard it called um where we get through something by maintaining in ourselves on a particular course and accomplishing something large rather than just fractional confetti of thoughts which come through you know scrolling and again I'm not belittling scrolling but it's
not the same as being able to dwell and immerse yourself it brings you back to life to see the great world rather than this imaginary one that we have constructed in our minds so now I want to talk about the biggest thing that is going to set you back or stop you from doing this 12 um Pages a day if you understand this one thing you are you are armored and you have a shield to fight back when you want to give up so let's talk about it very briefly I want to talk about a
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people stop reading when they have the intent to read and they want to improve themselves or they think this is my year to get into reading and the classics perhaps this is the reason people stop they want to have read rather than to read well say it again people want to have read rather than to read well what do I mean by that simple we may look at those books at the beginning that I showed and we think how wonderful it would be to have read all of these but the thing is what that does
is it means while I'm reading this one withering Heights you know it's took me 12 Pages a day I'm now 90 96 pages in halfway through the book and it's took me eight days wow some people have read two books or three books by this point and I do want to know what Moby Dick's all about and I do want to know what Anna karenna is about and what this does is when you're reading Anna kenina you're thinking about 1984 when you get to 1984 you're thinking about capturing the right and we become dissatisfied we
want to have read hundreds of books so we're well read but remember this when we dream about reading the classics and the reason for it we want to have read them because we want to have gained the Insight the knowledge the appreciation the Savor that these things give us if you were to read 500 pages a day and read like loads of Classics in the year you wouldn't retain that much again think of the Frantic tourist who tries to see Paris in a weekend they can't do it but if you live there for a year
you go about much slower through the through the ways and alleys of Paris but you see far more and you can take time to appreciate far more if you go in a museum with the purpose of getting through every painting in the museum how much have you really seen all you can say is I've seen them but the person that goes every day for 20 minutes and looks at one painting gets to appreciate them far far more so have that mindset so why I like doing it before with coffee in the morning or before going
to bed is because there is no brush now and so I'm going to linger in the pages I know I only have 12 so I don't have to worry about trying to speed read I wish I could read faster than I do because I'm going to stop at 12 now I want to say something about this practice if you are someone that already enjoys reading this is still brilliant because you may not want to just read Classics what this allows is whatever your current reading schedule is if you like fantasy or you like murder mysteries
or you like Adventure or you like romance or whatever it may be spies I've just done the top 50 spy novels by the way in a video go and check that out you can still read whatever books you want but at night just have this program of I'm going to spend 12 pages on a classic and believe me you're appreciation for classics will grow instead of them being snooty it will be oh I understand why they have gained their reputation and that's just through 12 Pages a day I'll conclude this by giving you absolute proof
of this working in my patreon community we've just finished 2024 and we averaged in our reading 12 Pages a day because the point of patreon is not to read loads it's to read well and these are the books that we read in 2024 at 12 Pages a day we read a study in Scarlet which is the first part of this complete works of Sherlock Holmes we've just finished reading Cranford by Mary Elizabeth Gasco we read death comes to the Archbishop this was a revelation to me and by Willer catha we read time will darken it
by the great writer William Maxwell editor of the is it New York Times we read Movable Feast Memoirs by Ernest Hemingway we read The House of the Dead by dovi we read l r by Flora Thompson beautiful idilic countryside novel we read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison phenomenal book lots of people have heard of it very few people actually know what it's about we were read Madame bie one of the cornerstones of great French writing we read the comedy Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons we read Down and Out in Paris and London where um
George Orwell lived as a basically in Paris and London for a couple of years and wrote his experiences we read the brilliant Grapes of WTH by John Steinbeck what a book that was we read another comedy in three men in a boat and we read a book which everybody was staggered when they finished reading it the way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler I mean just to show you that's what the community read and it averaged just 12 Pages a day and something the community not everyone enjoyed every book but we got a varied Taste
of literature and what everybody has said is they've for many they've never read a book as well as that because they just took the time and then we discussed it of course so you could read all of those or you could read nine of the top 10 greatest books of all time according to the greatest books.org I don't particularly agree with that ranking because I don't think cing the r should be anywhere near the top 10 but nonetheless you get my points what books do you want to read Don kote is it War and Peace
you've always wanted to read is it the brothers katsof that you've wanted to read you could get through Bleak House Middle March Vanity Fair so many um I think like just that there you go donkey o war in peace um the brothers caram mats off 12 Pages a day you would read that in the year and more so I hope this gives you inspiration you don't have to just read Classics but set aside half an hour to 40 minutes before you go to bed have the healthy benefits of not scrolling reading helps you sleep and
just 12 pages will immerse you in some of the greatest writing of all time by the end of the year you will be a slightly different person
