Reading for quick hits of information, but gaining little true value

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Along the lines of yesterday's post My Biggest Productivity Mistake...Not Sticking To One Thing, one of the biggest errors and mostly wasted time lies in how people read articles and/or books and never really harvest them for the biggest benefit!

Sure, there are many people who stop at the level of "knowing about" something, so that they can recall the idea and perhaps speak knowingly and impressively about it.  But if one looks into their lives, one does not see the actual implementation of what it takes to get the results!

Mission failure!!!!

If our intention is to "get better" or "improve our lives" (or an area of life or work), then we are stopping massively short.  We are not failing to reach our goal out of inability but from just plain old lack of follow-through.

And it is NOT SMART to do something and then not get a result from it (other than maybe a little titillation of hope from the idea of something being better in the future.

Instead, if one really wants to have a good or great life, one would best use the strategy and commitment of doing Productive Reading.  Link to that piece and see if you are, or might better, following all the steps for harvesting your reading!!!!

Heed this and, again, it will make a huge difference in your life!!!!

Or you can be "smarter" in accumulation of used information, continuing to live a version of Groundhog Day (or something short of truly living).