Okay, I am one of those people who has a whole stack of books next to her bed and shames herself about all that she’s not reading. Yes, that’s me. I think I’m like many people out there. I love books and I love to look at the titles, but it does make me feel bad. I feel bad that I’m not reading. I have self-disparaging thoughts, and one of the things I’ve done more recently is I’ve removed them from my nightstand and I leave just the one book that feels important to me to read.

One of the other things I’ve done is I’ve started doing what my friend Eric does, which is to listen to more interviews. Instead of always feeling like I need to buy and read the book, I first listen to an interview or two and decide whether it’s something that I want to invest my time in. So recently I’m focused more on listening to interviews with the authors of books that I’m interested in. Or, the authors of books that I never read that are kind of old now but I’ve always been intrigued by. One of them is a book by Jen Sincero called ‘You Are a Badass.’ The book title never resonated with me, but it is everywhere, and it has been on the bestseller list for years and years.

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