 Let me ask you a question. Would you like to read faster and memorize everything that you read? Probably the answer is yes. So today in this video, I'm going to be showing you how you can read a book within half an hour and how you can memorize much more efficiently. Okay, so it was a couple, actually no, it was a year ago when I was listening to one of Jim Rohn's talks on YouTube. I love Jim Rohn. He always cheers me up. And Jim mentioned this one book. And that book was How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. It's an old book printed in 1934. A big, thick book. And I decided, hey, if it's good enough for Jim, it's good enough for Amir. So I ordered the book on Amazon, took a while, got it in and started reading it. And it turned out, like I said, it wasn't really a book but a resource guide. So I went in deep on it and I studied it for a while and I started applying it bit by bit. And the results were astonishing. I'm like, holy shit, this stuff really works. And what I'm about to show you today is everything that I took from that book and applied it into my learning habits. And it's not hard. It's super easy. Anyone can do it. Literally, all you need is a physical book in a pen. This doesn't work for audible or auditory or even digital physical book. And pretty much this is a system that you need. And truthfully, I can go through a couple of books a week with this model. I retain information better. I read faster. And generally speaking, it's a better experience because I just want to set some things straight before it would continue. When people say you should read, most people view reading as a one-way event, meaning you grab a book, you read it word for word and you put it down. And that's that. You never pick it up again. You never read it again. And there's no organic relationship with your book as opposed to what a book should be is a resource. It is a trusted resource that you have a two-way conversation with. It's something that you can come back to time and time again. It's something that you can dig into that you can feel that you can look at. They can put on the side, go back to it, take notes about it. It's a teacher. Just remember that a book is a teacher. You shouldn't be reading for the sake of reading. You should be reading to learn something. It's a journey and it should be fun. It should be entertaining and you should enjoy the process of diving in deep to books. Okay. So this is the system that more and more Adler talks about and how to read a book. I'm just going to summarize it for you right now. So the first thing you need to know is why did the author spend so much time writing this book and wanting to publish this book? Obviously, the author wants you to learn a thing or two and basically what you need to do is first understand who the author is. So in this case, it's the late great Felix Dennis. By the way, one of my top favorite books of all time is How to Get Rich from the former founder and owner of Maxim Magazine, a bunch of other publishing giants like this guy. He lived an interesting life and sold me great, great lessons you can pick up in this book. So I do recommend you get this book. Okay. So the first thing you need to know is why did Felix Dennis write this book? So do some studying about Felix Dennis. So usually in books, somewhere, somewhere in the cover or the back of the book, there's going to be here we go about the author. That's the first thing you got to read is who is Felix Dennis? So Felix Dennis is a poet, publisher, founder of Maxim Magazine, Yadda Yadda lives in England. This is really important for you understanding like how this author speaks, what his ideologies are, what his philosophies are, what his religious views are, what his political beliefs are, etc. So do a deep dive. Sometimes I even suggest going your phone, Google him if they just have like a small blurb, go on Google, go on Wikipedia and really understand who the author is. That's the first step you need to do because you need to take your mind and transplant it to the author's mind and really see from his point of view why he wanted to write this book. Okay, so that the second step is once you figure out who the author is, what you want to do is you want to go over the table of contents. Okay, so if we go over the table of contents over here, we're going to go through one by one and see how Felix organized the book because this gives you a lot of insight to how he structurally thinks and if he's a systematic individual, how he wants you to experience the book itself. So in this case, you know, part one reason not to get rich. So he tells you at the beginning why you should not get rich, reason for getting started, you know, getting rich, and finally, you know, troubleshooting end game. So this is how it's structured pretty straightforward. So you can tell from how Felix is, he's a no bullshit son of a bitch, everything is structured, everything is in order, there's no beating around the bush, he gets, you know, straight right to the point. Okay, so once you, you know, analyze the table of contents, you understand what type of character Felix is and how he's organized this book. Cool. Next step is you need a pen. Okay. And basically what you're going to do right now is you're not going to speed read. So one thing I do want to emphasize is with this system that Mortimer Adler speaks about, there's no speed reading, it's more meta learning, it's figuring how you absorb information. And it's more or less understanding that it's not about reading everything, the book, it's about picking up the key things from the book. Remember, there's probably about only 10% of key takeaways from a whole book. You don't need to read word for word. So basically what you do is you get your pen and you can scan. And this is really important over here. You don't need to go in order from A to Z. You can literally scan the book how you want to scan it. So basically sometimes I'll like to fool around. I'll go from back to the book. I'll go backwards, you know, because usually, you know, the ending in the front has the most important thing, so the middle is just full of fluff. And basically I go randomly and I'll scan. Now just scan like this. So you'd like to scan with a pen or you can use your finger, I scan, look around, I scan. Sometimes you can read the, you know, a headline of the chapter, a few words about luck, since he's a poet. So he has poetry over here. So if you don't philosophy, keep that in mind. So I just scan. I spend about five minutes. So basically they say you spend around five to seven minutes scanning the book and you're not writing down anything. You're not memorizing anything. You're just scanning the book. Then once you're done scanning, you put it down. You let that sit in. You think about it. And now you grab your pen. And basically what you want to do is you can go throughout the book. Great thing about this process is once again, you don't have to go in order. Remember the human mind doesn't learn in linear fashion. It doesn't go A, B, C, D, E, F, G. The human mind thinks exponentially very fractal, like fractal geometry. It goes from A to G, G to Q, Q to Z, Z to W, all over the place in a very fractal pattern. So the whole idea of trying to read a book from A to Z, I don't think so. It's natural to tell you the truth. However, it doesn't stop you from doing it. So basically what I do is you grab your pen and what you're doing is whatever captures your eye, you circle. So for example, I circle this, glory, hello, you. Yeah. For some reason, it caught my eye. I bunny-eared that I keep on going around. And you're also looking for certain key phrases. So you're looking for definition words because therefore it is she told me he told me any words that are about to describe something. If that catches your eye, you know, because therefore or something like that, you circle that because the author is trying to explain something really important or maybe important. You just don't know. So you want to circle that. And the whole idea is you go throughout the book and you circle, you know, and this caught my eye, I circled it, I bunny-eared that. And I spent about 20 minutes, give or take, maybe 15 to 20 minutes doing this process. So by the end of this process, what you have is literally, you know, I've got bunny ears all over the place. Just if you guys can see that bunny ears, I'm just circling everywhere, you know, big bunny ears circling, you know, left some notes over here, circle that. I got probably 45 different bunny ears all over the place. Once you're done that, basically what you do is you're done. You put this book away. So the whole process, let's say at the beginning, the whole process of taking 45 minutes, you're done. You put that book away and you forget about it. And you wait about a week and then you come back to it and you go back to the box and you bunny-eared with your pen, with a piece of paper on the side and you look at what you circled. And basically what this does is read jogs your memory. It pushes you to remember, wait a second, there's a reason why I circled this spot in the book. So it makes you think, hmm, what did my mind like about this? Why did I circle this? You start reading about this and you make a note about this. So I have a 8 by 11 piece of paper on the side. I write this spot what I learned, you know, Glory had cost you nothing to obtain something. I write that down. I like that. So I write that down. So I go to every single spot in the book where I did something. So the fifth is, you know, for example, here, the fifth error skimping on talent. So better hire your talent. So I read through here, any company money. So I write down some quick notes. I go throughout the whole book. That process, you know, takes another 20 to half an hour. And what you're left with is job notes of the whole book on a 8 by 11 paper bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And basically what you want to do is you can keep that as a reference. And usually what I do is I take that 8 by 11 and I put it back into the book like this, or maybe you can type that out. So sometimes I recommend for people, sometimes I do this myself. I'll actually take that and turn that into a video. Same thing. For example, with this video, I took what I learned in Mortimer Adler's book how to read a book and make into a video so I can submit the process better in my mind, internalize it as opposed to knowing or as Richard Feynman would say as understanding it. So basically, once you have that, you put it in here and you can put it back on your bookshelf. But you're not done yet. Remember, this is a resource guide. You don't just read a book one time or twice. I go, I write, no, no, no, you better, you need to live the story. So if it's on your bookshelf and anytime you want to kind of regurgitate your memory once again, or get some fresh insight with fresh set of eyes, go back to your book, you know, take out that piece of paper that you have all your notes in and start looking at it and then maybe go back if you want to circle something new. So the whole point of the how to read a book faster and memorize faster, it's not about memor- it's not about reading word for word because when you're reading, you're passive. But what this model is, you're proactively engaging in a relationship with that book and also you're reactivating your memory because once you, you know, first of your draft, you put it on the shelf and then you come back a week later, you have to force your memory to recall why you circle certain spots. So in that shell, that's how I read the book and it's helped me tremendously. I memorize books much better. I can regurgitate information much better. The experience above all, if I was to say what is the best result of all this, I would say the actual experience of, you know, having a relationship with a book, you know, holding it and circling it and creating my own thesis and hypothesis of what Felix wanted me to learn, that's the biggest takeaway that happened. So I hope you enjoyed this process on how to read faster and memorize better. Actually, I'm actually curious on what kind of systems you have. Maybe you have different systems that I'm not aware about. If you can leave a comment below this video, that'd be great and if you found value in this video, please share this with your friends and family. Peace.