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One strategy for building a good habit is habit stacking.
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1 Gollwitzer, Peter M. "Implementation intentions: strong effects of simple plans." American psychologist 54.7 (1999): 493.
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Leverage the addictive power of 🔥 streaks 🔥2 to make reading irresistable. Set a daily challenge and maintain your streak by reading.
2 Weathers, Danny, and T. Andrew Poehlman. "Defining, and understanding commitment to, activity streaks." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 52.2 (2024): 531-553.
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If you have “read” an entire book, even if you understood half of it or less, you have immensely improved your reading skills.
- Inhae3
夢に意味を見いだすのは無駄なことだとリタは考える。悪夢は、ただの悪夢にすぎない。 リタ・ヴラタスキが戦闘のたびに巻きこまれるクソったれな時のループとは本質的に違うものだった。
「ところで、今日も出撃前日だが、おまえが取材した連中はそのメッセージとやらを受けとったのか？」
「もちろんだ。今朝、ロスに電話して確かめた。三人が三人とも受信してるよ」
「語るに落ちたな。そんなことがあるわけがない」
3 How inline translations help with mastering a language: “How to Start Reading Books in Japanese.” Inhae’s Blog, 15 July 2020, notes.inhae.blog/2020/07/15/how-to-start-reading-books-in-japanese/.
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"And when people claim that there are causeless causes of your behavior that they call “free will,” they have (a) failed to recognize or not learned about the determinism lurking beneath the surface and/or (b) erroneously concluded that the rarefied aspects of the universe that do work indeterministically can explain your character, morals, and behavior."
4 Explanations are powered by a custom AI framework that augments a Large Language Model (LLM).
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Improve comprehension and vocabulary gain by reading while listening.5
“And now,” said Mr. Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, “you have heard the news?”
The doctor shuddered. “They were crying it in the square,” he said. “I heard them in my dining-room.”
“One word,” said the lawyer. “Carew was my client, but so are you, and I want to know what I am doing. You have not been mad enough to hide this fellow?”
“Utterson, I swear to God,” cried the doctor, “I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of.”
5 Chang, Anna Ching-Shyang. "The Effect of Reading While Listening to Audiobooks: Listening Fluency and Vocabulary Gain." Asian Journal of English Language Teaching 21 (2011).
FAQ
BookSlice is a Telegram bot that helps you read 3x more book by turning books into text messages.
BookSlice helps you read more books by making reading habitual and addictive.
It does this by leveraging known psychological tools such as implementation intentions, habit stacking, situational cues, streaks, and more.
The average American reads 4 books/year (median)6.
BookSlice helps you read 12 books/year (3x more) or your money back.
6 Perrin, A. (2016) Book reading 2016, Pew Research Center. Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/ (Accessed: 15 July 2024).
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