Want to Join the Top 1%? Accelerate Your Business Skills with This Habit
What makes some business people become the top 1%? We are going through a valuable habit that they all share and figuring out how to adapt it faster and with less effort.
According to a survey conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts, it's evident that each year, there is a declining trend in the number of books people read. The survey highlighted three key findings:
- Americans are dedicating less time to reading.
- Reading comprehension abilities are diminishing.
- These declines are posing significant civic, social, cultural, and economic concerns.
What Makes Successful Leaders Successful
Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft, reads 50 books in a year. He shared the reviews of his books on his blog, Gates Notes.
In one of the interviews with the New York Times, he mentioned that reading is the chief way of learning.
It is one of the chief ways that I learn, and has been since I was a kid. These days, I also get to visit interesting places, meet with scientists and watch a lot of lectures online. But reading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding.
Reed Hastings, the co-founder and CEO of Netflix,
has dedicated time to reading and is an advocate for educational efforts, believing that continuous learning is a key driver behind personal and professional growth.
Oprah Winfrey, a famous American host and famous television producer, once said
We would go to the library and draw books every two weeks. I would take out five books, and I would have a little reading time every day. That’s what encouraged me to become a great reader.
The top 1% of personalities are continuous learners, and most of the learning comes from the books they read daily.
For them, reading is not a hobby; it is a way of life.
How Top Business Leaders Make Time for Reading
The life of top 1% personalities are always structured; they have a highly regimented schedule and set of best practices to follow.
Reed Hastings invests some time in reading before going to bed daily.
Bill Gates always carries a book while he travels to meet other people.
But most of the growing businesspeople are not able to find time for reading due to their busy schedules.
But for making proper decisions, reading is very important.
Here I will introduce a simple habit that helps you build a consistent reading habit during your busy schedules to achieve the top 1% gradually.
Read Like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
We are introducing a solution called FeedZap for business people.
FeedZap is a software tool that helps to build a reading habit with less effort and time. FeedZap is available at your fingertip at any time, anywhere, through your personal devices.
So if you are waiting for a meeting or just going to bed or having food, turn on FeedZap and scroll through your personal feed loaded with your valuable collection of books.
FeedZap has so many features that help you maintain consistency in reading and transform your reading into learning.
Let's see how the different features in FeedZap help business people achieve the top 1%.
Create your own Healthy Snackable Feed
FeedZap supports uploading books in various ebook formats, such as PDF, MOBI, and EPUB .
The successfully uploaded books will be broken down into snackable feeds so that it is easy to grab each paragraph and easy to read difficult books.
FeedZap also highlights the important paragraphs based on the text rank. It is useful to extract the notable sentence from each paragraph easily.
Carry Personal Library in your Pocket
FeedZap beta version is free to use, and there is no upload limit; you can upload as many books in PDF, MOBI, or EPUB formats.
During your business trips or while waiting for a meeting ,. Simply open your phone and start reading any book, like one from your personal library.
Replace Distractions into Learning
The stream of content through the social media feed is the most addictive feature and a major source of distraction. So what if we can replace the addictive social media feed with an informative, healthy feed? That's what Feedzap is doing.
FeedZap Chrome extension will replace your social media feeds, such as Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter, with more informative, healthy feeds from your favorite books.
Share your Great Findings
Found one interesting paragraph or sentence from your favorite book? FeedZap helps to convert that part into a shareable card so that you can share it with your team members, friends through any platform.
This will help to continuously motivate your team members through your reading insights from your favorite book.
Set a Goal and Track your Reading Progress
Setting mini-goals daily helps to motivate and maintain consistency in reading.
In FeedZap, you can view the percentage of your reading progress for every book you load.
Access FeedZap for FREE
FeedZap provides a lot of features for maintaining a consistent reading habit. And it will address all the major problems we discussed in the beginning.
FeedZap has not yet been released officially, but you can still access the beta version using this link: https://feedzap.hexmos.com/, or download it from the Play Store or App Store and sign up to create your snackable, healthy feed.
Also, we are going to launch FeedZap on the product hunt next month. Here is the teaser link Try FeedZap and support us to provide a better experience for readers worldwide.
FeedZap: Read 2X Books This Year
FeedZap helps you consume your books through a healthy, snackable feed, so that you can read more with less time, effort and energy.
