Thank you for the routine idea. I do realize the expression of thanks has been made. After a few moments of inner debate my pleasure of the concept of many people thanking you for something that never dawned on us won.
A couple of times you mentioned reading the first page of every book. I don’t remember seeing the spot where you actually talked about that. Was that after you lined them all up you just did that first? And why did you do that?
I've always made it a habit to read 2 chapters of a book I'm currently reading; I also write down quotes that stood out to me or an unknown word I may have never seen before I'll write it down a long with the definition. I've been doing this routine for 2 years and I feel alot more level headed and relaxed. 😊❤📚
This year I challenged myself to read every single day. On some days that would mean a single poem, on others three hours of reading. Mostly, it's somewhere in between but with this simple habit I managed to reach my usual reading goal of 30 books for the entire year by 1st July - which is still mind-blowing to me. I also listen to many books on audio, that way I can combine reading with my daily walk, doing the dishes etc.
12:37 Thank you, I really needed to hear this. When I was a child I would grab whatever book was in reach in the library just for the sake of reading and I had so much fun just enjoying whatever I grabbed. Over time I lost this ability. I really want to get my excitement back. I started re-reading the books that amazed me back then and it seems to work so far 😊
This was really inspiring, thank you. I'm working on changing my relationship to owning and reading books and a lot of this really resonated, especially the bit about how children don't think too deeply about the orderliness of the process. I fall into that trap frequently of thinking "oh if I'm going to read Ulysses, I have to have read The Odyssey, and Shakespeare, and Joyce's other works, and have knowledge of the historical context of early 20th c. Dublin, etc., etc." I just wish I had more friends who were readers, especially for classic lit and philosophy and such (not that those are inherently more valuable than other kinds of writing!). I was taking some grad classes which was nice but I wish there was an easier way to find other people to support each others' reading goals.
hahah that's amazing, happy to see someone else who resonates with that music, I listen to that soundtrack when I am doing important work for my life also thank you! still gotta read that one.. I shall take ur advice from this video to help with that, Goodluck w the rest of ur great work!@@christopherbudnick
I've always read a lot, since I was a child, but as I started earning money and having access to more bookshops (aka me moving from a small town to a city) I started buying a lot of books and then I let them sit on my bookshelves to read other books, with the results that I had a shelves of books that didn't represent me, as I hadn't read them. Since two years I self-imposed this new rule of reading every book I buy within one year of when I buy it, and this actually pushed me to start big books I was too scared of starting. I am now (september) reading the books I bought on march, so only 6 month ago. Two weeks ago I started reading "The magic mountain", a book that scared me for the complexity and number of page, and I started it simply because it was the next on the list. And I'm liking it! It will take me probably two months to finish it but so it is, time will pass anyway
I think that knowing exactly what you're going to read next is a great asset to getting through one's TBR pile. I recently finished my full to-read list which includes all of the unread books I own (plus some rereads and plenty of books I don't yet own). I had fun with it, scheduling in some single-author deep dives I know I'll love and varying the types of books too. With the current list, reading one book a week will take me about 33 years to get through! It's like a preplanned adventure, and I'm already enjoying it a ton. Cataloguing the books along the way was just the tip of the fun iceberg. I logged about 1,300 titles. PS: I started my reading list The Divine Comedy!
I think this video is absolutely amazing! My physical TBR is so overwhelming (which I love but also am scared of), and self-discipline is a tough but rewarding skill that I am definitely determined but struggling to hone. Thanks so much for the incredibly nuanced and unique approach to this topic 😊 and for the incredible idea that it is okay to be ragingly jealous at the skill of others, but that if we are capable of finding beauty, talent, and depth in art, we are all capable of harnessing that for ourselves! 🥳💜
Seeing a Sando passage come up as you talked about "the worst prose you've ever read" gave me a good chuckle. The man can spin some yarn but the sentence-by-sentence experience is rough, especially in the early books.
really appreciate this feedback, i suspected it when i uploaded but i had already rendered this out for 24 hours and i hoped it would be close enough. critical feedback is /so/ hard to get. hopefully, it'll be better in the next one!
I can genuinely attest to books changing my life, I think everyone who reads can, but wanted to put it somewhere so it's out there. Reading The Count of Monte Cristo changed my life. I don't think I'll read it again cause its fucking huge, but it got me back into reading and its so fucking good.
I feel like I'm a kid when I read! I can go from middle school books to books about serial killers to Tuck Everlasting and back to books about psychology. 😂
I so feel you on the '50 takes' thing. It's what is stopping me from making videos like these on my own. I have the thought nicely formulated in my brain, but then when I turn on the camera I need 50 takes and I still don't get the point across nearly as good as I imagined. Great video btw, I was very surprised to see how little content you've published so far - felt like watching a channel with hundreds of videos based on how well it was filmed and how you presented your points. Subbed & looking forward to the next one!
What an excellent video! After five years of false starts I am currently reading and almost finished with Melville’s Moby Dick. I usually read about a chapter a day while on a short bus ride to work, less than 20 minutes. But those little moments built upon themselves and I’ve spent time not only reading about the Pequod, but also reflecting on it while going about the day, which is, I think, the point of reading in the first place.
That is so wonderful!! I often feel discouraged by big books even though they always end up being the ones I enjoy the most because they allow me to fully immerse in the story, but you just inspired me. And yes, that for sure is the point of reading.
Well done… it is a fantastic book and too often left out of lists of the best books ever… it would definitely be the book I’d take to a desert island if that weird literary accident was to ever happen! Next up… James Joyce and Ulysses?
This was so uplifting and practical. Thank you Christopher. I'm learning to live offline again and this is a great way to do so. I'm excited for what else you'll show us on this channel 😊
I found this to be one of the most interesting and inspiring Videos I saw in a reeeeally long time! You seem unusualy authentic and I really like it! This was a video that in a way changed my life 😉
Idk if this will make sense but you have a very David Foster Wallace-esque way of speaking. It really shows with how you speak that you think quite deeply about these kinds of subjects. Right now I am reading Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; I'm almost done with it but reading it has been like a "wow I have felt the same way for a long time and didn't realize that some1 else feels this way." Anyway great video friend! I would love to see a video of your book collection as I'm a sucker for that kind of content.
Wonderful. (subscribed!) I have a long-standing guilt about the books I own but I haven't read yet. However, I do the Inktober drawing challenge every year, because it's a challenging but achievable goal of making a new drawing every day for 31 days. Since it's already in my comfort zone, it's not too hard to raise the bar for a month and plan accordingly. Maybe I can take my comfort about daily drawing and shift it into daily reading!
I want my 15 min back but it is what it is. For newcomers: 1. Make a habit of reading 20 min everyday. 2. Make it "fun": put your stacks books in (any) order, draw stuff on your book. 3. ???? 4. Profit Chaotic video, you should make them more structured in the future. You got me fired up in the first minute but I became frustrated when I was 5 min in and you were still rambling the introduction basically saying nothing. The next 10 min were even more painful as I was waiting for the goodies promised by the title and got instead cue routine reward, 20min everyday read before bed and lots of ramblings. On the other hand the video editing is great and the phone recording idea at the end is great as well. You worked a lot on this video and Inresoect that. Keep up the hard work and you'll get there. This is a great niche to tackle and lots of viewers hungry for this type of content.
I love that even books you didn’t enjoy have value, there’s been a few books I’ve found myself editing in my head as I read them! That’s got to be helpful experience when for when I’m writing
This is so well thought of and beautifully filmed.. I'm in awe!❤️ Seriously, please keep posting videos I'm excited to watch whatever you make next :') oh and the habit tracker is so pretty. Digital trackers could never compare with the satisfaction of regular pen-and-paper ones
Can you say more about the purpose/advantage of reading every tenth page and then starting over? [I think rereading is vital to understanding a text--I'm a high school literature teacher and this is one of my biggest soap box issues. I have observed that an inability to grasp the text on a first read through can slow a reader down significantly (making home readings very difficult to do on one's own for example). Isn't it likely that reading every tenth page would only slow one down and make them lose interest? Either way, I am curious to experiment with this for myself!]
i love this question! i'm most familiar with Gregorc's work on learning styles [which aren't entirely scientific], but the idea is basically: - not everyone optimally processes information sequentially, and letting go of the notion that you're actually doing a sequential reading can be freeing for some students. - there have been some studies that showed spoiling random elements of the plot or character details resulted in higher subjective evaluations ("how much did you enjoy/how immersed were you") of books & films. i think for some kinds of learners, having glimpses of the scaffolding on which the story hangs can help them arrange details and keep track of the narrative in a way that makes the reading experience less stressful. - for those of us who are really set on doing things the right way and on finding the right ordering/time of day/perfect experience to enjoy a text that we know we'll like (aka me and dante/melville), i think committing to doing it in an obviously non-optimal (in the sense of how we're taught to read) can be freeing and really let us just experience the book as our own thing. that we can take ownership over our experience of reading and use the book for performing kinds of thinking. - this isn't too far off from how i take notes, which i will [some day] cover in the future, so i wanted to experiment with this myself out of my own curiosity, and i really enjoyed it. note-taking for me involves a quick skim through a book, only brief paragraph highlights, and then deciding where to spend my time. i've always been curious about how it might apply to novels, so this is kind of my twist? i would love to do a video about this but since i'm being kind of slow about them it could be a year before i get to cover styles of reading a book in an in-depth way, so i wanted to just throw some of my thoughts to you now. would love to hear how skipping on through a book on a first pass works for you!
@@christopherbudnick Thanks for this detailed answer! I have done a version of this my entire life - I read the last chapter first! I never didn’t read the entire book, but reading the last chapter relieved the tension that would torment me and keep me from enjoying the book.
I have more than 30 000 books downloaded, and in multiple languages, that I don't know so much, and in my PC, that I enter in the night for download more and more books, can I read all of that?
Dude, that idea flew by me a few months ago. And fuck me, i just today took a picture with a Burroughs book in my hand to send it to my girl, instead of a dick pick.
I'd really like to know more about this subject but like every 5th word is the word like and then I find that kind of like annoying but if I ignore what he's saying when he says like so often I miss more of like the subject and the topic and the reality is that when it's like annoying I sort of like tune it out a lot. But maybe that's just me cuz I'm like made that way you know?
I just started How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen (so good !) and I'm already reading a Ted Chiang book and Amanda Palmer memoir uhh and a bunch of partially started books from my trip
I’m not actually sure what steps you are recommending here. Is it that I take a day to read the first page of every book I own, put them in three piles: 1) read later; 2) save for reference; 3) donate? And then proceed from there following my fancy? And if I don’t feel like reading an entire book; just read every 10 (or whatever) pages so that I have a general sense of what it achieves and how? Is this correct? Bonus: for those who want to discard books after reading, I recommend pdf’ing highlighted sections for future reference and storing digitally. :)
but isn't it easier to just try to resist temptation and not have a physical tbr of hundreds of books? i'm a little worried about how glamorized buying books has become, i see teenagers spending so much money and i don't think we criticize this consumerist aspect enough. it's like a capitalist's wet dream, especially when libraries are free. maybe it would be less stressful to you if you just avoided the problem in the first place. i buy books only when i've already read them (through the library) and know that i liked them, that way whenever i look at my shelves i see only books that give me a good feeling to have because they are books i'm fond of. if my library doesn't have a book i would like to read i buy it (but this rarely happens- especially for y'all who like classics: most of them are free online because of copyright laws!!!) and if i don't like it i give it away or sell it. that way i avoid falling into a trap of buying and buying. i mean wouldn't you like to have books that you feel good about owning? this isn't the first time i've heard people describe feeling anxious about their TBRs that they own so this seems to be a common problem with owning that many books.
also i'm sorry but i really didn't get your point on thinking that we've read books that we haven't actually read. what does that mean? how can you think you've read something you haven't? (around min 2:00) i'd love a clarification.
By the way, that study you cited (the marshmallow one) doesn't replicate. You may have heard about the replication crisis in psychology. The results aren't valid for several reasons (one being not controlling for the fact children with ADHD have a different time evaluation)
hi! this is a 70's windsor folding pyramid lamp. they tend to overheat if you used them closed with a tungsten bulb and can melt the plastic, but otherwise are great. i have like four scattered around the house. sometimes you find them listed on ebay as tensor lamps, too.
I'm reading for pleasure 2 sci-fi books and a couple of math and science books each day. I have found that reading a little bit each day I am surprised how many pages I have gotten through each. I read each until my brain says enough which usually 10-30 minutes and I mark off where I left off with a slash of a pencil. Congratulations on your first 2 videos! I hope to see more. I have subscribed 🤗 Oh, one last thing... the book you are searching for that will change your life is the one you write yourself.
I'm trying to read 12 books this year. Already 4 books down! Some really interesting ones so far. Loved the ideas in this video and will be implementing your habit forming strategies to strengthen my reading habit for sure. Currently reading The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe :)
Out of all the videos I've ever watched on RUclips, this one has the highest QualityOfContent : QualityOfMusic ratio. :-P So much good advice here! I've got my work cut out for me because 95% of my library of several thousand books is non-fiction.
My problem is being in the middle of multiple books, getting overwhelmed, and then spending the next week reading a couple 100k+ Word fanfiction..... So I'm still TECHNICALLY reading lol
This was a great video Christopher. Considering the production effort and number of videos produced so far - either I’m missing another channel you have that I’d enjoy - or maybe you are too much of a perfectionist that you are robbing us of great content by trying to be perfect. Hoping it’s the former, but looking forward to more regardless. Thank you!
I've took the habit to shit on youtube algorithm lately but rn ?! I'm so happy to comeacross your channel. This video was not giving this energy of written and then filmed. It was really casual but still constructed and clear. It's fun to watch too. The subject interested me, for sure, but it's about everything around it that made my hyperactive brain relaxed and ready to listen. Sure I'll follow !
Hi Christopher, I found your way of talking motivating and I enjoyed the atmosphere of your video. I especially like your whimsical and free way expression through little crafts in the insert shots.
This video has the energy of someone who's been doing RUclips for years with a steady following of people. When I saw this was only your second video, I was shocked. Look at all the people who have seen this video! Really great work, I hope you keep doing this.
I just stumbled upon you @Christopher Budnick, and I really love this topic. Somewhere along the way, my love of books slides into collecting them instead of reading them. That wasn’t the intention but it ended up feeling as if all my beautiful books were a symbolic guilt trip of what I’d not followed through on. Life is funny like that but your discussion is a great reset and reframe without judgement. Thank you. I especially like that you said to tell someone that we are going to read our books, so yes, consider this my notification.
I loved the vision of this video, the effort and passion is palpable ❤ I particularly loved that scene where the pink book makes it way down the shelf, that was lovely!!
I've been waiting for Emily Wilson's Iliad translation for years. One month to go!! I understand waiting to read a text until you get the translation you want, but I finally go myself over that hump and started reading translations of the same books (not frequently but a few books). It's good, you can compare later.
After a long period of difficulty I’ve recently been able to take noticeable steps in reestablishing my reading habit. A lot of the points you hit I absolutely relate to. I’ve been trying to allow myself to experience reading in whatever way feels good at the time. Which right now means reading a bunch of Crichton without feeling embarrassed to admit it’s the first time I read Jurassic Park, or that Congo is a little silly, and that’s okay. I’m taking this as an opportunity to read some shorter books that I “should have” read before. Tonight that’s Lord of the Flies.
Seeing all the books i have NOT read is stresssing me out. But i have been trying to get through them big by big. It’s actually quite enjoyable and rewarding
My TBR is c.70 books atm, & I had a massive reading slump over 2019-2021. What got me back into reading was Manga. Now, I'm loving Manga, been introduced to free Audiobooks (for the first time) via Libby, & am reading lots more physical books on my TBR. I read what I feel like, & I never force myself to read. I can't read in bed, 'cause I fall asleep within 2 pages XD, so my big reading time is morning tea time. For that sacred time, I have my coffee and treat, and get comfy to read. I love that time. My TBR started at over 100 books, so slowly getting through them! Libby has helped a lot. I always prefer physical books, but with Libby I can just listen to a book on 2x speed as I potter about. I keep a journal of my reading progress to help. Have already read 2 books this month!
This is a great video. I also set the goal of reading all the books I own at the beginning but didn’t accompany it with any intentional habit-building. I love the idea of visualizing what life could be at the end of my TBR.
My favorite habit is to read right when I wake up - it jump starts my brain when I’d otherwise be super groggy.
Cheers, mate! Thanks for the tip!
Ohhhh yeahhhh that’s an amazing idea! I will definitely have to do that. Thank you pal
I’ll try doing that
If i read after waking up I will fall asleep again 😭
Thank you for the routine idea. I do realize the expression of thanks has been made. After a few moments of inner debate my pleasure of the concept of many people thanking you for something that never dawned on us won.
such a good video
A couple of times you mentioned reading the first page of every book. I don’t remember seeing the spot where you actually talked about that. Was that after you lined them all up you just did that first? And why did you do that?
Man! You’re soo underated🤧🤍🫶🏾
I've always made it a habit to read 2 chapters of a book I'm currently reading; I also write down quotes that stood out to me or an unknown word I may have never seen before I'll write it down a long with the definition. I've been doing this routine for 2 years and I feel alot more level headed and relaxed. 😊❤📚
I will try this
This year I challenged myself to read every single day. On some days that would mean a single poem, on others three hours of reading. Mostly, it's somewhere in between but with this simple habit I managed to reach my usual reading goal of 30 books for the entire year by 1st July - which is still mind-blowing to me. I also listen to many books on audio, that way I can combine reading with my daily walk, doing the dishes etc.
That's really inspiring to know. Am really struggling to read the new books. What type of genre you read mostly?
I legit just subscribed because you have La Grande Illusion (1937, Renoir) in the background.
12:37
Thank you, I really needed to hear this. When I was a child I would grab whatever book was in reach in the library just for the sake of reading and I had so much fun just enjoying whatever I grabbed. Over time I lost this ability. I really want to get my excitement back. I started re-reading the books that amazed me back then and it seems to work so far 😊
This was really inspiring, thank you. I'm working on changing my relationship to owning and reading books and a lot of this really resonated, especially the bit about how children don't think too deeply about the orderliness of the process. I fall into that trap frequently of thinking "oh if I'm going to read Ulysses, I have to have read The Odyssey, and Shakespeare, and Joyce's other works, and have knowledge of the historical context of early 20th c. Dublin, etc., etc." I just wish I had more friends who were readers, especially for classic lit and philosophy and such (not that those are inherently more valuable than other kinds of writing!). I was taking some grad classes which was nice but I wish there was an easier way to find other people to support each others' reading goals.
Did you put Mishima soundtrack in reverse as first song? hahaha giving me ideas for my videos
i basically have kyoko's house playing in my head all the time haha.
(was just reading sculpting in time, love your channel!)
hahah that's amazing, happy to see someone else who resonates with that music, I listen to that soundtrack when I am doing important work for my life
also thank you! still gotta read that one.. I shall take ur advice from this video to help with that, Goodluck w the rest of ur great work!@@christopherbudnick
I've always read a lot, since I was a child, but as I started earning money and having access to more bookshops (aka me moving from a small town to a city) I started buying a lot of books and then I let them sit on my bookshelves to read other books, with the results that I had a shelves of books that didn't represent me, as I hadn't read them. Since two years I self-imposed this new rule of reading every book I buy within one year of when I buy it, and this actually pushed me to start big books I was too scared of starting. I am now (september) reading the books I bought on march, so only 6 month ago. Two weeks ago I started reading "The magic mountain", a book that scared me for the complexity and number of page, and I started it simply because it was the next on the list. And I'm liking it! It will take me probably two months to finish it but so it is, time will pass anyway
PLEASE, make a video on home library taxonomies. Also the fact that you used the word taxonomy made me instantly follow you.
I think that knowing exactly what you're going to read next is a great asset to getting through one's TBR pile. I recently finished my full to-read list which includes all of the unread books I own (plus some rereads and plenty of books I don't yet own). I had fun with it, scheduling in some single-author deep dives I know I'll love and varying the types of books too. With the current list, reading one book a week will take me about 33 years to get through! It's like a preplanned adventure, and I'm already enjoying it a ton. Cataloguing the books along the way was just the tip of the fun iceberg. I logged about 1,300 titles.
PS: I started my reading list The Divine Comedy!
I love this video but in particular the music. Sounds like Philip Glass played backwards.
I think this video is absolutely amazing! My physical TBR is so overwhelming (which I love but also am scared of), and self-discipline is a tough but rewarding skill that I am definitely determined but struggling to hone. Thanks so much for the incredibly nuanced and unique approach to this topic 😊 and for the incredible idea that it is okay to be ragingly jealous at the skill of others, but that if we are capable of finding beauty, talent, and depth in art, we are all capable of harnessing that for ourselves! 🥳💜
How many unread books do you have? Love 🫶🏾👀🩷
@@Rohan-cc2uz Definitely at least a hundred! As they say, buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies, but I enjoy both ☺️
@@Madison-fu8tx holy sh*t! 100 books, that’s a lot! I’m so happy that you’re enjoying both your hobbies, lol🤧😭🤍🫶🏾
Consider me OFFICIALLY INSPIRED
Seeing a Sando passage come up as you talked about "the worst prose you've ever read" gave me a good chuckle. The man can spin some yarn but the sentence-by-sentence experience is rough, especially in the early books.
The bgm is super distracting just a heads up, otherwise nice video
really appreciate this feedback, i suspected it when i uploaded but i had already rendered this out for 24 hours and i hoped it would be close enough. critical feedback is /so/ hard to get. hopefully, it'll be better in the next one!
What is bgm
i will go read those last pages of the nightcircus right now.
edit: i did it :)
I can genuinely attest to books changing my life, I think everyone who reads can, but wanted to put it somewhere so it's out there. Reading The Count of Monte Cristo changed my life. I don't think I'll read it again cause its fucking huge, but it got me back into reading and its so fucking good.
I feel like I'm a kid when I read! I can go from middle school books to books about serial killers to Tuck Everlasting and back to books about psychology. 😂
I so feel you on the '50 takes' thing. It's what is stopping me from making videos like these on my own. I have the thought nicely formulated in my brain, but then when I turn on the camera I need 50 takes and I still don't get the point across nearly as good as I imagined.
Great video btw, I was very surprised to see how little content you've published so far - felt like watching a channel with hundreds of videos based on how well it was filmed and how you presented your points. Subbed & looking forward to the next one!
Can I follow your advice but also choose to bully you in the comment section?
I read like a child evidently! Bouncing around like a deranged chinchilla.
What an excellent video! After five years of false starts I am currently reading and almost finished with Melville’s Moby Dick. I usually read about a chapter a day while on a short bus ride to work, less than 20 minutes. But those little moments built upon themselves and I’ve spent time not only reading about the Pequod, but also reflecting on it while going about the day, which is, I think, the point of reading in the first place.
That is so wonderful!! I often feel discouraged by big books even though they always end up being the ones I enjoy the most because they allow me to fully immerse in the story, but you just inspired me.
And yes, that for sure is the point of reading.
Well done… it is a fantastic book and too often left out of lists of the best books ever… it would definitely be the book I’d take to a desert island if that weird literary accident was to ever happen! Next up… James Joyce and Ulysses?
Cool. Moby can be so challenging. I'm trying to read it a second time.
Interesting and inspiring video! I want to hear more from you. But right now, I’m opening a book
this is such a great video
This was so uplifting and practical. Thank you Christopher. I'm learning to live offline again and this is a great way to do so. I'm excited for what else you'll show us on this channel 😊
I found this to be one of the most interesting and inspiring Videos I saw in a reeeeally long time! You seem unusualy authentic and I really like it! This was a video that in a way changed my life 😉
Idk if this will make sense but you have a very David Foster Wallace-esque way of speaking. It really shows with how you speak that you think quite deeply about these kinds of subjects. Right now I am reading Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; I'm almost done with it but reading it has been like a "wow I have felt the same way for a long time and didn't realize that some1 else feels this way." Anyway great video friend! I would love to see a video of your book collection as I'm a sucker for that kind of content.
It shows that he’s a hipster
Alright, I'm in. I want the weird dreams.
Starting Dhalgren tonight.
Try listening to an audiobook while you are sleeping. Weird dreams galore!😂
If I'm reading on an iPad I'll shut off notifications and often switch to airplane mode. I find that keeps me focused and saves battery life :)
I’m going to read three of Eugenia Cheng’s books about math!
Wonderful. (subscribed!) I have a long-standing guilt about the books I own but I haven't read yet. However, I do the Inktober drawing challenge every year, because it's a challenging but achievable goal of making a new drawing every day for 31 days. Since it's already in my comfort zone, it's not too hard to raise the bar for a month and plan accordingly. Maybe I can take my comfort about daily drawing and shift it into daily reading!
I want my 15 min back but it is what it is. For newcomers:
1. Make a habit of reading 20 min everyday.
2. Make it "fun": put your stacks books in (any) order, draw stuff on your book.
3. ????
4. Profit
Chaotic video, you should make them more structured in the future.
You got me fired up in the first minute but I became frustrated when I was 5 min in and you were still rambling the introduction basically saying nothing. The next 10 min were even more painful as I was waiting for the goodies promised by the title and got instead cue routine reward, 20min everyday read before bed and lots of ramblings.
On the other hand the video editing is great and the phone recording idea at the end is great as well. You worked a lot on this video and Inresoect that. Keep up the hard work and you'll get there. This is a great niche to tackle and lots of viewers hungry for this type of content.
I love that even books you didn’t enjoy have value, there’s been a few books I’ve found myself editing in my head as I read them! That’s got to be helpful experience when for when I’m writing
I like to send a picture of 4 books I would like to read to a friend and have them select one purely based on cover and title :)
This is so well thought of and beautifully filmed.. I'm in awe!❤️ Seriously, please keep posting videos I'm excited to watch whatever you make next :') oh and the habit tracker is so pretty. Digital trackers could never compare with the satisfaction of regular pen-and-paper ones
Can you say more about the purpose/advantage of reading every tenth page and then starting over? [I think rereading is vital to understanding a text--I'm a high school literature teacher and this is one of my biggest soap box issues. I have observed that an inability to grasp the text on a first read through can slow a reader down significantly (making home readings very difficult to do on one's own for example). Isn't it likely that reading every tenth page would only slow one down and make them lose interest? Either way, I am curious to experiment with this for myself!]
i love this question! i'm most familiar with Gregorc's work on learning styles [which aren't entirely scientific], but the idea is basically:
- not everyone optimally processes information sequentially, and letting go of the notion that you're actually doing a sequential reading can be freeing for some students.
- there have been some studies that showed spoiling random elements of the plot or character details resulted in higher subjective evaluations ("how much did you enjoy/how immersed were you") of books & films. i think for some kinds of learners, having glimpses of the scaffolding on which the story hangs can help them arrange details and keep track of the narrative in a way that makes the reading experience less stressful.
- for those of us who are really set on doing things the right way and on finding the right ordering/time of day/perfect experience to enjoy a text that we know we'll like (aka me and dante/melville), i think committing to doing it in an obviously non-optimal (in the sense of how we're taught to read) can be freeing and really let us just experience the book as our own thing. that we can take ownership over our experience of reading and use the book for performing kinds of thinking.
- this isn't too far off from how i take notes, which i will [some day] cover in the future, so i wanted to experiment with this myself out of my own curiosity, and i really enjoyed it. note-taking for me involves a quick skim through a book, only brief paragraph highlights, and then deciding where to spend my time. i've always been curious about how it might apply to novels, so this is kind of my twist?
i would love to do a video about this but since i'm being kind of slow about them it could be a year before i get to cover styles of reading a book in an in-depth way, so i wanted to just throw some of my thoughts to you now. would love to hear how skipping on through a book on a first pass works for you!
@@christopherbudnick Thanks for this detailed answer! I have done a version of this my entire life - I read the last chapter first! I never didn’t read the entire book, but reading the last chapter relieved the tension that would torment me and keep me from enjoying the book.
I could see this for nonfiction, but fiction? Never! Never!
I have more than 30 000 books downloaded, and in multiple languages, that I don't know so much, and in my PC, that I enter in the night for download more and more books, can I read all of that?
You're a huge inspiration for me now! Your videos are the perfect mix between bookish vlog and artsy visuals !
Dude, that idea flew by me a few months ago. And fuck me, i just today took a picture with a Burroughs book in my hand to send it to my girl, instead of a dick pick.
I'd really like to know more about this subject but like every 5th word is the word like and then I find that kind of like annoying but if I ignore what he's saying when he says like so often I miss more of like the subject and the topic and the reality is that when it's like annoying I sort of like tune it out a lot. But maybe that's just me cuz I'm like made that way you know?
Fucking love Moby Dick
I see Swann's Way in hat initial underlined montage! Great choice. Subbed
I’m reading Dune:)
I just started How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen (so good !) and I'm already reading a Ted Chiang book and Amanda Palmer memoir uhh and a bunch of partially started books from my trip
I’m not actually sure what steps you are recommending here. Is it that I take a day to read the first page of every book I own, put them in three piles: 1) read later; 2) save for reference; 3) donate? And then proceed from there following my fancy? And if I don’t feel like reading an entire book; just read every 10 (or whatever) pages so that I have a general sense of what it achieves and how? Is this correct?
Bonus: for those who want to discard books after reading, I recommend pdf’ing highlighted sections for future reference and storing digitally. :)
This video is outstanding. Very original, insightful, and actually useful. Thank you. Keep making videos.
love this video
but isn't it easier to just try to resist temptation and not have a physical tbr of hundreds of books? i'm a little worried about how glamorized buying books has become, i see teenagers spending so much money and i don't think we criticize this consumerist aspect enough. it's like a capitalist's wet dream, especially when libraries are free. maybe it would be less stressful to you if you just avoided the problem in the first place. i buy books only when i've already read them (through the library) and know that i liked them, that way whenever i look at my shelves i see only books that give me a good feeling to have because they are books i'm fond of. if my library doesn't have a book i would like to read i buy it (but this rarely happens- especially for y'all who like classics: most of them are free online because of copyright laws!!!) and if i don't like it i give it away or sell it. that way i avoid falling into a trap of buying and buying. i mean wouldn't you like to have books that you feel good about owning? this isn't the first time i've heard people describe feeling anxious about their TBRs that they own so this seems to be a common problem with owning that many books.
also i'm sorry but i really didn't get your point on thinking that we've read books that we haven't actually read. what does that mean? how can you think you've read something you haven't? (around min 2:00) i'd love a clarification.
By the way, that study you cited (the marshmallow one) doesn't replicate. You may have heard about the replication crisis in psychology. The results aren't valid for several reasons (one being not controlling for the fact children with ADHD have a different time evaluation)
Fun video! Also, I love your lamp ( 1:35 ), where did you get it and how can I find it? Please tell, thanks.
hi! this is a 70's windsor folding pyramid lamp. they tend to overheat if you used them closed with a tungsten bulb and can melt the plastic, but otherwise are great. i have like four scattered around the house. sometimes you find them listed on ebay as tensor lamps, too.
These videos are so fucking good keep making them please 😮
I'm reading for pleasure 2 sci-fi books and a couple of math and science books each day. I have found that reading a little bit each day I am surprised how many pages I have gotten through each. I read each until my brain says enough which usually 10-30 minutes and I mark off where I left off with a slash of a pencil.
Congratulations on your first 2 videos! I hope to see more.
I have subscribed 🤗
Oh, one last thing... the book you are searching for that will change your life is the one you write yourself.
I'm trying to read 12 books this year. Already 4 books down! Some really interesting ones so far. Loved the ideas in this video and will be implementing your habit forming strategies to strengthen my reading habit for sure. Currently reading The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe :)
Out of all the videos I've ever watched on RUclips, this one has the highest QualityOfContent : QualityOfMusic ratio. :-P So much good advice here! I've got my work cut out for me because 95% of my library of several thousand books is non-fiction.
The video filter made me stay somewhat nostalgic
My problem is being in the middle of multiple books, getting overwhelmed, and then spending the next week reading a couple 100k+ Word fanfiction..... So I'm still TECHNICALLY reading lol
I honestly expected this video to have over 1 million views. Very nicely and creatively put together!
I started last year and forced myself actually at first now I just select the books like that which keep reminding me everyday to read
This was a great video Christopher. Considering the production effort and number of videos produced so far - either I’m missing another channel you have that I’d enjoy - or maybe you are too much of a perfectionist that you are robbing us of great content by trying to be perfect. Hoping it’s the former, but looking forward to more regardless. Thank you!
It’d probably help if I spent less time on RUclips.
This was rlly fun to watch and good content!
I've took the habit to shit on youtube algorithm lately but rn ?! I'm so happy to comeacross your channel. This video was not giving this energy of written and then filmed. It was really casual but still constructed and clear. It's fun to watch too. The subject interested me, for sure, but it's about everything around it that made my hyperactive brain relaxed and ready to listen. Sure I'll follow !
I've not seen many people with the codex, its such a fasinating book
"I'm gonna ask you, this is me asking you, to join me on a really dumb adventure."
I already love this guy. Subscribed.
same!
That's a good advice. Really helpful, thanks! 😊
Please do talk for hours about home library taxonomies.
Yes!!!!
I am also waiting for that video to drop.
i fucking love this video thank you
im reading, Walden, I'll finish it
Hi Christopher, I found your way of talking motivating and I enjoyed the atmosphere of your video. I especially like your whimsical and free way expression through little crafts in the insert shots.
This video has the energy of someone who's been doing RUclips for years with a steady following of people. When I saw this was only your second video, I was shocked. Look at all the people who have seen this video! Really great work, I hope you keep doing this.
What a great video both in content and style! Looking forward to more. (Also, what is the drawing of the land in the cube at 4:15?)
thank you! that's a drawing i made for this sequence (mostly to fit the 'oh, the places you'll go!' cover)
I just stumbled upon you @Christopher Budnick, and I really love this topic. Somewhere along the way, my love of books slides into collecting them instead of reading them. That wasn’t the intention but it ended up feeling as if all my beautiful books were a symbolic guilt trip of what I’d not followed through on. Life is funny like that but your discussion is a great reset and reframe without judgement. Thank you. I especially like that you said to tell someone that we are going to read our books, so yes, consider this my notification.
Interesting video! I want to hear more about home library taxonomy.
Rewatched. Very revealing... Thank You for this Content.
Concerning ’If you know you know.’ We know and we the people approve!!! 😁🤝
I genuinely, really love the way your mind works. I’m so glad I found this video, I can’t wait to see more!!!!
I loved the vision of this video, the effort and passion is palpable ❤ I particularly loved that scene where the pink book makes it way down the shelf, that was lovely!!
I've been waiting for Emily Wilson's Iliad translation for years. One month to go!! I understand waiting to read a text until you get the translation you want, but I finally go myself over that hump and started reading translations of the same books (not frequently but a few books). It's good, you can compare later.
Have you read Berserk Volume 1 when yes than pls stop if you dont want to be depressed and sad for monthes😢😅
IYKYK.. shout out to Anna.
Fantastic video. Also, the choice of Earthbound music is on point.
Love the subtle dig at Elantris :)
I love this idea. Going to start today.
This is such a vibe
I like you, ur cool
Never click a video so fast
After a long period of difficulty I’ve recently been able to take noticeable steps in reestablishing my reading habit.
A lot of the points you hit I absolutely relate to. I’ve been trying to allow myself to experience reading in whatever way feels good at the time. Which right now means reading a bunch of Crichton without feeling embarrassed to admit it’s the first time I read Jurassic Park, or that Congo is a little silly, and that’s okay.
I’m taking this as an opportunity to read some shorter books that I “should have” read before. Tonight that’s Lord of the Flies.
Good video but I am getting overwhelmed with the overuse of the word "like".
I loved this. haven't stopped loving it, not sure anymore why I did but I still did.
this video is🧡
I'm also currently reading all the books I already own and banned myself from buying new books until I'm pretty much done.
I have been trying to build some habits too , thanks for the insight..
Seeing all the books i have NOT read is stresssing me out. But i have been trying to get through them big by big. It’s actually quite enjoyable and rewarding
Bit by bit* haha
Brilliant video, I will give it a shot!
My TBR is c.70 books atm, & I had a massive reading slump over 2019-2021. What got me back into reading was Manga. Now, I'm loving Manga, been introduced to free Audiobooks (for the first time) via Libby, & am reading lots more physical books on my TBR.
I read what I feel like, & I never force myself to read. I can't read in bed, 'cause I fall asleep within 2 pages XD, so my big reading time is morning tea time. For that sacred time, I have my coffee and treat, and get comfy to read. I love that time. My TBR started at over 100 books, so slowly getting through them!
Libby has helped a lot. I always prefer physical books, but with Libby I can just listen to a book on 2x speed as I potter about. I keep a journal of my reading progress to help. Have already read 2 books this month!
If i have a lot of unread books i read them fully then only buy or grab more ...❤
This is a great video. I also set the goal of reading all the books I own at the beginning but didn’t accompany it with any intentional habit-building. I love the idea of visualizing what life could be at the end of my TBR.
looking forward to more of your content ‼️