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77: The Effective Executive

Cortex

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How to Read a Book Without Reading It

Audio books work for me when I'm doing other things, but this book demands your full attention. You can't also be playing Stardew Valley while you're listening to the audiobook. So that was a frustration for me and it made this book In place is harder to get through. But there are things that I was able to do with this book that I can't do with the audiobook And that is skimming. If you read the first two paragraphs of a section and the last two paragraphs of the section as long as you understood the first two You'll understand the last two Because they make their point they have a huge example and then they conclude the point A lot of the time

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