Book Reading 2021

December 24, 2021

I read 28 non-fiction books in 2021. Here is what I learned this year:

I made a list of the books I planned to read at the beginning of the year. Making a list of the books you want to read gives you focus and helps you reflect on what topics are you interested. I send my list to a couple of friends for feedback, and in turn they sent me their lists.
Systems over goals. I didn’t start 2021 with a goal of reading 27 books. Instead, I focused in reading 25 pages every day. This I learned from Farnam Street’s Blog. And it worked. Even if I sometimes ‘broke the chain’, I read more books than previous years.
This year I learned to drop books if they didn’t come out as expected. Before, I felt like an obligation to finish every book I started… which I know is nonsense but that is how it was.
I resisted the urge of immediately buying every book I found interesting. I now keep a document where I write down the book’s name, who recommended it, and why I think it’s an interesting read. When I finish a book, I use the book list for the year and this document to reassess which book I will read next.

The books I read in 2021: