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"But How Do You Read So Much?"
Maybe you can’t keep your current job while also seeing enough of your children; maybe making sufficient time in the week for your creative calling means you’ll never have an especially tidy home, or get quite as much exercise as you should, and so on.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
If you are struggling to find time to write, it may be because you aren’t clear on why you want to write.
Beth Kempton • The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life
How can I go from collecting information (articles, books, podcasts, etc) that I would like to consume to one in which I devote a good portion of my time to closely reading and processing, rather than simply skimming, these items?
Over the last decade or so, more and more people have begun to report an overpowering feeling, whenever they pick up a book, that gets labeled “restlessness” or “distraction”—but which is actually best understood as a form of impatience, a revulsion at the fact that the act of reading takes longer than they’d like.