Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Setting a clear intention can help your brain identify the REAL CHANGE a book can give you!

20 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this short video, Nick Hutchison explains a simple yet powerful reading technique: write a clear intention on the inside cover of a book before you start reading. Using Dan Nicholson’s Rigging the Game as an example, he wrote, “find at least 2 ways to improve my financial certainty by January 1st.” By reading this intention each time he opened the book, his brain knew exactly what to look for, making it easier to spot relevant ideas and act on them. Hutchison argues that without such an intention, readers miss opportunities for concrete takeaways, and he urges viewers to adopt this habit for any book they read.

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Change the way you read forever by implementing the following tip. You need to set an intention before you read a book. So right here I have Rigging the Game by author Dan Nicholson. He talks all about financial certainty. So what I did on the inside cover was I actually wrote my intention for the book. It says, find at least 2 ways to improve my financial certainty by January 1st. And so every time I picked up this book with a pen and a highlighter, I would read that intention first so that my brain knew exactly what to filter for, 2 ways to improve my financial certainty. And as I was reading the book, I could identify those much easier and therefore take action on them. So if you're not setting an intention before you read a book, you absolutely should.