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Most of us would like to read more books, and there are a lot of videos that promise to help you do that by building a reading habit.

But what I would argue is that you don't need a reading habit, but a sort of reading addiction, where you don't necessarily have a set time and place to read,

but you just can't wait to open a book at every chance you get.

So in this video I'm going to lay out a series of steps for getting addicted to reading.

And we're going to start by finding the kind of books you actually like, which is a lot easier with the Page -Turner Triangle.

Okay, so the page -turner -triangle is how I think about the kind of books that I like to read.

And there are three elements that go into it.

There's the subject matter, there's the plot or the narrative structure if you're reading a non -fiction book, and then there's the quality of the writing itself.

And what I generally find is that if a book hits one of those three things, then I might be able to get through it.

If it hits two, then I'll probably read it and enjoy it.

And if it hits all three, then I'm probably going to tear through it and I won't be able to read it fast enough.

So for instance a book that I think does subject matter

and plot really well is The Three Body Problem which like I'm fascinated with the ideas it comes up with

the plot is really interesting and there's always something going on

that makes you want to read the next section the writing

is honestly kind of basic compared to some of the books I read

but you know two out of three is pretty good by

comparison like the subject matter of open is absolutely fascinating I love reading the stories of elite athletes

and the things they have to do to get to the top of their sports.

This is also ghost written and it's fantastically well written.

And the narrative is really well put together by the ghost writer.

And this really drags you through.

I just picked this up and could barely put it down.

Then you've got a book like Middlemarch.

I would say that the subject matter of this I wasn't that interested in.

I'm not that interested in this period of English history.

But the plot is fascinating the sort of antics of the different characters are really good, and the writing is absolutely amazing.

George Eliot is a genius.

Everybody loves this book for a reason.

I read it very, very quickly.

And I think what's beneficial about the Page -Turner Triangle is

that it allows you to be honest about the kind of experience you're looking to get from reading

and the kind of books you actually like.

So if you're getting recommendations from either other people or places like Reddit or Substack, then it's really helpful to be able to go, oh, you know what, I really love the language in Blood Meridian,

and then everybody will probably say, oh, you know what, you should read Moby Dick.

It's very similar.

But this also helps out with the next thing I would recommend, which is to stay in the Goldilocks zone.

So if you're at all interested in the science of performance, then you've probably heard about the idea of flow, which is where stuff feels kind of effortless and fun, and time just flies by.

And I think that certainly happens in reading.

And one of the really key elements of flow is

that the challenge of whatever you're doing just about matches your experience level.

And how this comes in in reading is that if things are too complicated or difficult for you to follow, you're not going to enjoy it.

But also, if they're too easy or simple, you're probably not going to enjoy them either.

So we'll talk about complicated first because I think that's one that a lot of people struggle with.

And in my experience, you can kind of push through a book up to a point without really understanding what's happening.

But it really feels like a slog.

So, for instance, in Middlemarch, there was a point where, I think I was a couple hundred pages in

and I was like I have actually forgotten who some of these characters are

because I had gaps between reading bits of it

and I did have to go back to a couple of online plot summaries

and just like check out what was going on and

so it sounds kind of counterintuitive

but I think the way to make sure you stick with

a book for the long haul is maybe to be honest

when you're not getting something and go back to reread the sections

that you don't understand or failing

that look up like an online chapter summary of any bits

that you didn't quite get or any elements of the plot where you're not really sure what's going on.

There's nothing that kills a book faster than kind of losing track of the overall plot

or if you're reading nonfiction then losing the thread of the arguments so you don't really understand what's happening.

So either be prepared to go back and look over stuff again or look up an online summary of the book.

And I certainly look words up while I'm reading

so recently I reread Blood Meridian and a lot of the language in that book, you aren't really expected to know, it's just there I think for background,

but looking up some of the more esoteric words in there, I actually did sort of build my understanding of and enjoyment of the book.

I'm not saying you have to sit there reading with a dictionary the whole time, but if something's really beyond your understanding,

I think you should look on it as a way of building your understanding of

that time or era or whatever you're doing.

But then what you also find is that books can sometimes be too easy

or you just hit a section of them that's not as engaging as the rest.

When your attention is drifting that's often because the book isn't challenging enough

and when that happens I think a really good idea is to actually consciously speed up your reading

so you're taking in more information and it becomes more challenging again.

And another way to do that with easy books is to use what I'm going to call the strategic skim.

And so what I mean by this is, don't skip pages entirely, but don't feel like you have to give every word

and every page of every book an equal amount of attention.

So, a bit of advice that Mark Manson gives for instance, is that if you're reading a pop science book and a study comes up that you've read about before,

like there's a famous one about the hippo campi of taxi drivers getting bigger as they learn the knowledge, unless the book has something interesting to say about that story

and it probably doesn't you can probably just flip through those two pages quite quickly

or like I've been reading Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses who's the New York urban planner

and that is a fascinating book but it's like 1300 pages long

and there are pages where it just gets into like who voted for a specific bill

and stuff you really don't need to know about

and I think it's fine to go through those bits quite

quickly to get back to the really good stuff about like power

and how it's exercised and how it kind of manifests itself which is the really good stuff in the book.

I'd also suggest having at least two books on the go at once, there are a couple of reasons for this.

You can keep one that's kind of easier and one that's kind of harder, so like for instance when it gets to about 9 .30,

10 o 'clock at night I would really struggle with something very dense like you know 19th century literature

but I can still read like a nice page turner like a Cormac McCarthy or some help self help or pop science.

But another reason to have two books on the go at once is

that you can literally sit down on the couch with both of them

and as you feel your attention start to wane from one

of them just switch to the other one instead of turning the TV or the Playstation on.

And once you've had a few minutes of reading

that one you might feel ready for a little break and then go back to the other one again.

And I've honestly spent about 90 minutes, two hours at a time just flipping between two books,

just reading one or the other as my attention to whatever I'm doing drifts.

Another thing I would say at this stage is you absolutely cannot be afraid of the DNF.

Like some people have systems for when they'll throw a book away.

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You know, like some people say, give it 50 pages, give it 100 minus your age, give it like a chapter or two.

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Personally, it's a bit more fluid than that for me like

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if I'm reading a book based on a friend's recommendation

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and they said it's fantastic you should absolutely read it you would love it I'll give it more pages than

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if I just picked it up a shot because I like the cover

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if I'm reading a classic

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because everybody in the world says it's amazing I might give it a hundred pages before I ditch it

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but I will ditch almost any book

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if I'm not getting on with it also something I would

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say about this is you don't have to think of a DNF as like admitting defeat on a book forever

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so I got it about 300 pages into Moby Dick maybe 10 years ago

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and then I had to give up on it

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and then I tried it again last year

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and I just absolutely smashed through it

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and I don't really know why I think maybe I was

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in a different place mentally I was better prepared to appreciate it

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or maybe I was just more interested in whaling at

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that point but a DNF doesn't mean you're never going to read a book it just means

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that you're not going to keep struggling through it

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when like you're not in the right headspace for it

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and I think that's really important when you're trying to build a reading habit.

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And then the next thing I would suggest is to really make reading more frictionless for yourself

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so what I mean by that is make sure you always have a book in your bag, make sure there's always books on either your Kindle or your phone

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and like have your book beside you at night

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when everybody else goes to bed

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or beside your bed in the morning instead of your phone so it's right there when you wake up.

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And this is the point where building a habit really does come in

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and I would say that the habit of like trying to read five

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or ten or twenty pages in the morning

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or at night does work for some people but I would say

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that the more important habit is when you feel like you have a bit of spare time to do something,

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the habit you have should be to open a book rather than mindlessly flicking through your phone.

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And the best way to do that is to make it harder to access things

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that are like attention sapping for you and much easier to get hold of a book.

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And if you want some more advice on that, I've got that right here.

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Thanks for watchin'.

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為什麼我們總是讀不下去書？

很多人都想養成閱讀習慣，可往往買了書卻落灰。影片裡提到，與其強迫自己“培養習慣”，不如讓閱讀變成“上癮”——不是規定時間地點，而是一有機會就想翻開書。這背後的關鍵，其實和我們學英語時的狀態很像：找到讓自己“欲罷不能”的方法，才能真正沉浸其中。

實用表達與搭配

tear through：快速讀完（例：I tore through the novel in one night. 我一晚就看完了這本小說。）
lay out：詳細闡述（例：The video lays out steps to get addicted to reading. 影片詳細說明了讓人沉迷閱讀的步驟。）
push through：堅持讀完（例：I pushed through the difficult book. 我硬著頭皮讀完了這本難啃的書。）
Goldilocks zone： Goldilocks區（指“剛剛好”的狀態，例：Stay in the Goldilocks zone when reading. 閱讀時要保持“剛剛好”的狀態。）

你的影子跟讀挑戰

想要提升英語口語，影子跟讀（shadowspeak）是個好方法。現在就試試：找到影片裡關於“Page-Turner Triangle”的片段，播放一句，立刻跟讀一句，注意模仿語氣和節奏。比如讀到“如果一本書能擊中其中兩個元素，我就會喜歡上它”時，要突出“兩個元素”和“喜歡”的重音。堅持5分鐘，你會發現自己的口語流暢度明顯提升。記住，影子跟讀（shadow speech）的關鍵是“即時反應”，不要暫停，儘量跟上原速。多練習，你也能像沉迷閱讀一樣，愛上英語口語練習！

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	you've probably heard · have actually forgotten · you've read
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	like, which is · recommend, which is · flow, which is

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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