Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2015

7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey

Desire to be enlightened and continuous seeking for time for reading made me to listen to listen smart audio books. The first was "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferrys and I've chosen as the second "7 habits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey.

As usual, book in audio format and listen on the run.

First 30km of listening remembered me my childhood. That time, on saturdays afternoon, when I wanted to watch cartoons and my parents - movies, preacher was speaking, monotonically describing different topics from bible. The same feelings I had in university, sitting in a large audience and listening for two hours for not the most eloquent teacher. I mean you better don't start it if you are in rush or didn't sleep well :)... The same with this book.

Lot's of times I was running and listening, than switched to my own thoughts, than back to book and realized that the author is providing ninth example of the same, and I've heart first 4, so I missed nothing - as with Brasillian TV series.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferrys

Once I asked myself, when was the last time I took a non IT book in my hands and read it? I remembered some years from the past, and not even University times - school years! It was a shame. I felt poor man with low IQ. I had to fix it ASAP.

As I usually do, I did a short research in Internet and found a list of recommended books. One of them was "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferrys. It's name was too catchy to leave it for later. As I don't have neither time to read in front of a fireplace, nor fireplace itself, I decided to listen it's audio version.

It was so damn interesting, that I did it twice quicker than planned to do. I was using each chance to listen 5 more minutes.