WEBVTT - Second Cup: Buy more books

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to buy more books in a time

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<v Speaker 1>when it's challenging to create new adventures or to meet

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<v Speaker 1>new people. Books are one of the best bets for

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<v Speaker 1>discovering new ideas and spending time wisely. Now, I know

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<v Speaker 1>this episode might seem a wee bit self serving. I

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<v Speaker 1>have written several books, and so of course I'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to expand the book buying market. But I am writing

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<v Speaker 1>this episode as much for me as for anyone. Long

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<v Speaker 1>time listeners know that I am chronically cheap. We could

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<v Speaker 1>use a nice word like frugal, but I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 1>be honest here. It has taken me a long time

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<v Speaker 1>to convince myself that buying books is a good investment

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<v Speaker 1>for starters. On a dollar per hour basis, books are

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<v Speaker 1>an incredibly cheap form of entertainment. If you pay twenty

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<v Speaker 1>dollars for a book that takes you four hours to read, well,

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<v Speaker 1>that is five dollars an hour. Of course, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>as cheap as say, free social media sites. But I

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<v Speaker 1>think a lot of us feel like our lives would

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<v Speaker 1>be better if we spent less time on social media.

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<v Speaker 1>Reading can fill all those bits of time that we

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<v Speaker 1>tend to use for online perusing. If you put an

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<v Speaker 1>e reading app on your phone and buy e books,

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<v Speaker 1>which is what I tend to do, you can even

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<v Speaker 1>use the same device. It is just as easy to

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<v Speaker 1>click on the Kindle app as the Twitter app, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm guessing one of these will feel like a slightly

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<v Speaker 1>more edifying experience. To spend time reading books, you need

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<v Speaker 1>to have books ready to read, and here I find

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<v Speaker 1>that committing to buying a few more books than you

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<v Speaker 1>otherwise would is wise. You want to always have a

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<v Speaker 1>book that you are looking forward to reading next. That way,

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<v Speaker 1>you will spend more time reading. If you're cheap like me,

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<v Speaker 1>it might help to give yourself a book buying allowance.

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<v Speaker 1>Then make it a little bit more than you think

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<v Speaker 1>you will actually spend. You could even decide that it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't roll over month to months so you feel some

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<v Speaker 1>urgency to put it to use. That will give you

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<v Speaker 1>a nudge to go peruse a used bookstore over your

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<v Speaker 1>lunch break, or to read reviews in the Wall Street

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<v Speaker 1>Journal or on good Reads in order anything that you

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<v Speaker 1>think looks interesting. It might also help to think of

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<v Speaker 1>books as a substitute for other activities that are harder

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<v Speaker 1>to pull off these days. Maybe you can't travel to Italy,

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<v Speaker 1>but you could read under the Tuscan Sun. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>attend an in person technology conference, but you could read

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<v Speaker 1>a book about the trade offs involved in various technological

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<v Speaker 1>trends such as cal new ports, digital minimalism. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>go here that inspiring speaker in person, but you can

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<v Speaker 1>read his memoir. Put that way, buying an extra book

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<v Speaker 1>or two a month seems like a great bargain, so

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<v Speaker 1>why not give it a try. It's professional development, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's a lot more fun than most professional development tends

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<v Speaker 1>to be. In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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<v Speaker 1>and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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