Read5for5 Challenge
Read Together with Like-minds 🤝
We have #read5for5 reading challenge every month to read and learn together with like-minded people 🥰
The past reading challenge articles:
January 2024
5 Day Reading Challenge in January 2024 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Rare Skills by Morgan Housel (3 mins) * Understanding Delusions: Recognizing and respecting that everyone’s beliefs are shaped by personal experiences and biases, leading to differing viewpoints, and emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in one’s own beliefs. * The Value of Quitting Early: Emphasizing the skill of knowing when
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December 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in December 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How to Get Out of a Rut by Sahil Bloom (4 mins) * Stop Digging: Recognize and cease behaviors that are worsening your situation, like negative self-talk and avoiding necessary rest. * Change Direction: Reflect on internal and external factors that contribute to your rut. Make necessary adjustments to
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5 Day Reading Challenge in November 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. The Eggbeater Effect: How Time-Saving Technology Just Makes For More Work by Tara McMullin (14 mins) * Time-saving technologies like eggbeaters and mixers lead to higher productivity expectations, resulting in more tasks rather than less work. * Historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan argues t…
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October 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in October 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Identity-Based Habits: How to Actually Stick to Your Goals This Year by James Clear (5 mins) * Identity-Based Habits: Lasting habits come from changing your self-identity, not just your behaviors. * Levels of Change: Behavior can be changed through outcomes, processes, or deep-rooted…
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September 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in September 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. 19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius) by Ryan Holiday (9 mins) * Marcus Aurelius’ Stoic Principles: He championed self-awareness, focusing on inner control, and recognizing the impermanence of life. * Actions and Relationships: Prioritize essential tasks, seek compassion…
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August 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in August 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How to Become Comfortable With Uncertainty by Michael Ashcroft (6 mins) * Embracing Uncertainty: People often seek familiarity, but in today’s complex world, it’s beneficial to accept and navigate through uncertainty. * Value in the Unfamiliar: Using methods like the Alexander Techniq…
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July 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in July 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Mastering the Art of Letting Go by Leo Babauta (4 mins) * Leo Babauta stresses the importance of letting go, stating it’s often our internal expectations, not external factors, causing distress. * Acceptance of things as they are and creating change from positive intentions rather th…
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June 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in June 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How to Get Out of a Rut by Sahil Bloom (4 mins) Feeling stuck in a rut is common, especially for high-achievers. The first step is to stop digging and eliminate negativity and exhaustion. The second step is to change direction by focusing on factors within your
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May 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in May 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How to Make Sure You Keep Growing and Learning by Susan J. Ashford (8 mins) Small, everyday experiments can help us reach our goals and get better at the skills that are important to us. Leaders who are widely viewed as effective and highly successful in their
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April 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in April 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ Day 2️⃣ Day 3️⃣ Day 4️⃣ Day 5️⃣
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March 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in March 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. De-Automating My Reading Notes: A New and Better Way For Capturing My Reading Notes in Obsidian by Jamie Todd Rubin (5 mins) The author thought that he’d save himself a ton of time by automating as much of the process as possible. But he found that he
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February 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in February 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. The Feynman Learning Technique by FS Blog (19 mins) Knowing something is valuable. The more you understand how the world works, the more options you have for dealing with the unexpected and the better you can create and capitalize on opportunities. The Feynman Learning Technique is…
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January 2023
5 Day Reading Challenge in January 2023 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More by James Clear (4 mins) It can be tempting to blame failure on a lack of willpower or a scarcity of talent and to attribute success to hard work, effort, and grit. To be sure, those things matter. What is
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December 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in December 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How I Stay Motivated Even When Progress Seems Slow by Ev Chapman (2 mins) The hardest thing about incremental progress is that it’s so hard to see. Since the progress isn’t viewable clearly, many people give up on continuing to do something. In this article, the
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November 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in November 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How to Make Sure You Keep Growing and Learning by Susan J. Ashford (8 mins) Small, everyday experiments can help us reach our goals and get better at the skills that are important to us. Leaders who are widely viewed as effective and highly successful in their
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October 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in October 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit by Maxwell Strachan (13 mins) There is a rise in mobile gambling. It is true that with your mobile phone, you can do everything you do in a casino. This 24/7 access creates
GlaspSeptember 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in September 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Seeking Wisdom — Lessons on Becoming an Outstanding Thinker by Thomas Oppong (4 mins) “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Our biggest hindrance to self-improvement is not our ignorance but our unwillingness to learn. See: Glasp Co…
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5 Day Reading Challenge in August 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Habit trackers: does tracking your habits actually work? by Dr. Hannah England (7min) We rarely lack good intentions. We want to drink more water, exercise regularly, or meditate every morning. Establishing habits, however, can feel like a struggle, and there’s often a gap between i…
GlaspJuly 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in July 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. The Feynman Learning Technique by FS Blog (19min) Knowing something is valuable. The more you understand how the world works, the more options you have for dealing with the unexpected and the better you can create and capitalize on opportunities. The Feynman Learning Technique is a…
GlaspJune 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in June 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Research Reveals The №1 Life Skill That Schools Surprisingly Don’t Teach by Michael Simmons(12min) The most important skill anybody can learn is the ability to learn rare and useful skills on-demand. Not only is learning how to learn not taught, but our popular culture is
GlaspMay 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in May 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. How One Life Hack From A Self-Made Billionaire Leads To Exceptional Success by Michael Simmons (9min) Charlie Munger has been a business partner of Warren Buffett for over 40 years. But few have been written about him. His model for success, backed by research, is simple and
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5 Day Reading Challenge in April 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Memory & Learning Breakthrough: It Turns Out That The Ancients Were Right by Michael Simmons (17min) “Research shows that when we teach what we learn, something magical happens in our minds. We suddenly notice mistakes in our thinking. We have more creative insights. Our ideas beco…
GlaspMarch 2022
5 Day Reading Challenge in March 2022 📚✨
Day 1️⃣ 1. Learn in Public, It’s Great by Yath Prem (4min) As many thought leaders say, there are a lot of advantages to “learn in public.” In this article, an author introduces the benefit of “learn in public” that he found his experience. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share:
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