Reading as if Your Career Depended on It

We need to read as if our career depended on it, says David Walliams. He has written a book about the importance of reading and putting into practice what he's learned. It helped him get opportunities at his company that no one else was getting.

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Jeff Brown breaks down how to make the most of the one habit that puts you ahead in your career: reading.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to strategically pick out your next read

2) How to double (or triple) your reading speed in minutes

3) Two simple tricks to maximize comprehension

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— ABOUT JEFF —

Jeff is an award-winning radio producer and personality, and former nationally-syndicated morning show host. Following a 26-year career in radio, Jeff went boss-free in 2013 and soon after launched the Read to Lead Podcast. It has gone on to become a four-time Best Business Podcast nominee and has featured Jeff's interviews with today's best business and non-fiction authors, including actor and author Alan Alda, Stephen M. R. Covey, Seth Godin, John Maxwell, Liz Wiseman, Dr. Henry Cloud, Gary Vaynerchuk, Simon Sinek, Brian Tracy, Nancy Duarte, and over 300 more.

Jeff has personally coached hundreds of successful podcasters around the globe – many of them award nominees and winners themselves – and has consulted on podcasts for the US government, two of the largest churches in the US, and numerous multi-million dollar companies.

Jeff and his work have been featured in Inc., Entrepreneur, and Hubspot, the blogs of Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Jeff Goins, and Social Media Explorer, as well as publications like the Nashville Business Journal, the Tennessean, and hundreds of other blogs and podcasts.

• Jeff’s book: Read to Lead: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career, with Jesse Wisnewski

• Jeff’s website: ReadToLeadBook.com

• Jeff’s podcast: Read to Lead

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Focus@Will

• App: Idagio

• Tool: reMarkable 2

• Study: “Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds”

• Book: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

• Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

• Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John Maxwell