Many people envy my lifestyle: doing what I like, freelancing.
What do I like? Read!
Because I fell in love with reading, in 10, I changed from an ordinary clerk to a freelance entrepreneur, and then published the book "Squeezing Books". Many friends ask me what is the secret of the growth of light speed in recent years?
In fact, my secret of growing up is reading.
0 1 Unwilling to be mediocre, explore passion and love.
10 years ago, I lived my own life. After work, it's ordinary and ordinary. I have been quiet and stable all this time, and it seems that this will be the case all my life.
There seems to be nothing wrong with such a day. At that time, working in New Oriental, the company's salary rose every year, and the welfare treatment was good. Many people envy me. I can work in the company of their idol Yu Xiansheng, and have the opportunity to face my idol, take a group photo and sign.
However, I found that I was not happy. As written in the novel The Moon and Sixpence: "I always feel that most people spend their lives like this, as if something is missing. I admit the social value of this life, and I also see its orderly happiness. But there is a strong desire in my blood, longing for a more wild and unruly journey. My heart longs for a more thrilling life. "
Although the salary is rising, I have been doing repetitive work, and I have not grown much. In the long run, I will soon lose my competitiveness in the workplace. And I always feel that life has less passion and dreams, and more repetition and boredom every day.
At that time, I often thought: there is only one life. Is my job just to make money for a living? Shouldn't I do something I like, be good at and be meaningful? Life is irreversible. Do I have to live a mediocre life like this? I am not reconciled.
Therefore, I make full use of my spare time to read books, attend classes, study and participate in activities. I try to explore my love and passion. During the period, I worked as a volunteer in a welfare home, worked as an outdoor leader, wrote articles for others to earn money, went to graduate school, and organized several online public welfare communities. ...
Somehow, there seems to be a force pulling me forward. If I don't find the true love of life, don't turn my hobby into a career, and live in such confusion all the time, I won't die willingly.
After a long exploration, I finally found my mission of "empowering growth with reading", bravely left my job to start a business and became a freelancer.
Now, many people regard me as an example of life and learn from me the courage and strength to grow up. They affectionately call me "Miss Gege". My story has also been reported by major media.
I can bid farewell to the mediocrity of the past and become the envy of many people now, all because of a small thing-reading.
Find your mission and empower your growth with reading.
In all kinds of tossing and exploring, I found that reading is my favorite in my life.
I seldom read books before, and I can't read a few books a year. In 2008, my fate took a turn. Fortunately, by chance, I was moved by Yu's lecture and decided to learn from Yu, read more and better books, and start my own way of reading improvement.
I have been reading books every day since 2009. In recent years, the annual reading volume has reached more than 100, and I have unconsciously read more than 1000.
I not only like reading alone, but also am good at reading and growing up with friends around me.
For example, I organized an online public welfare reading club. I paid, contributed and owed people, and insisted on public welfare operation for five years at a time.
For another example, I also run an offline public welfare reading club-Gege Reading Club (formerly Mixed North Reading Club), which is a student club of Chaos University in Beijing. I have long-term public welfare operation, zero budget, zero salary and zero expenses, and take my classmates to learn and grow together through offline activities. In the process of reading and growing up with everyone, I gained a special happiness.
Because of this, many people misunderstand me and think that I must be profitable. They don't believe that someone will persist in giving selflessly for a long time because they really love something. But in the misunderstanding and incomprehension of others, I slowly found the mission of this life-"empowering growth with reading."
This is what I have been looking for, what I like, what I am good at, something meaningful. This is my mission and my destiny.
Squeezing books: Give full play to the value of reading.
In the process of reading, through constant communication with book friends around me, I found an interesting phenomenon: ordinary people are often too busy to read; On the contrary, many great men read books every day. Those outstanding entrepreneurs, such as Yu, Ren, Liu Chuanzhi, Kai-fu Lee, Buffett and Bill Gates, all have good habits of reading and studying.
In fact, for ordinary people, it is not that they have no time to study, but that reading is not important at all in your heart. On the one hand, you lack the awareness of reading every day; On the other hand, you don't have the correct reading method. Therefore, you are mediocre and can't find a breakthrough.
Because I love reading, I fully extract the value of a book, and my personal growth continues, so I know the powerful changing power of reading for ordinary people.
What surprises me even more is that even some social elites, such as masters of prestigious schools, middle-level executives and CEOs, don't realize that reading is also a technical activity with methods and skills.
Many people can read, but often they don't expect anything in return and get little, let alone change their lives through reading. In my opinion, reading is only the first step, and more importantly, I can really get energy from books and help me achieve value enhancement.
So I put forward the concept of "squeezing books".
Just like people squeeze rapeseed into oil, the shape of rapeseed has completely changed, and its essence has been preserved, which has become an indispensable nutrient in people's lives. The same is true of reading. It is inefficient to read superficially. You need to completely convert the words in the book into your own cognition and store them in your brain. You should also expand your boundaries as much as possible through reading, change input into output, and enhance your personal influence.
The so-called "squeezing books" is to give full play to the value of reading.
After finding my own mission, I developed the "book squeezing" method of personal reading growth 10 into a series of online courses of Gege Reading Camp, and exported them for sharing.
I hope it can help people fully extract the value of a book. After unlocking their reading ability, they can unlock their logical power, expressive power, influence, linking power, self-confidence, practical power and resilience, thus building their competitiveness through reading.
Reading ability: Unlock six reading methods and easily read 100 books every year.
Logical power: teach you to sort out the logic in the book and then output it, don't worry.
Expressiveness: output mandatory input, unlock the skills of writing book reviews and telling books.
Influence: Unlock short video+live broadcast skills, and build a personal brand with reading.
Linking power: use reading to gain golden contacts and help work and life.
Self-confidence: Enhance your self-confidence and energy by reading, and bloom your flower of life.
Practical ability: teach you practical skills and improve your personal mobility.
Reentry force: Iterate yourself with rewinding, and realize personal growth at the speed of light.
When you learn the correct method of squeezing books, you can not only finish reading 1 book in 30 minutes, but also remember, write, speak and correct it well. Reading can not only help you get a promotion and salary increase in the workplace, but also release your energy and help you start a new life.
04 reading &; Take action and let the change happen!
I am very happy that my method has been tested by countless people:
Some people seldom read books before, but now they can read 1 book every day, and they have developed the habit of reading.
Some people have transferred the power of logic to their work, and now not only customers are satisfied, but also colleagues praise them.
Some people can't write before, but now they can write 3000 words at will, and they also earn the first payment in life.
Some people used to tremble when they spoke in public, but now they can not only speak in public easily, but also open the way to live broadcast.
In the past, some people were afraid to record the video number. Now they not only sell books on the video number, but also easily realize it, and even become bloggers with over 10,000 fans on the video number.
Some people used to be introverted and afraid of socializing, but now they bravely take the initiative to link others and gain various resources and surprises.
Some people used to feel inferior and have low energy, but now they have become the "little sun" in the crowd, confident, optimistic and positive.
Some people used to lack effective self-management, but now they review regularly, reflect on themselves and accelerate their growth.
Many parents have developed their own reading habits and made their children fall in love with reading under their influence.
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Many people say that reading seems to open their own magical positive energy cycle. By insisting on reading, I have gradually developed a strong mobility, and I have more perseverance when I insist on getting up early, writing and running.
I see that by fully extracting the value of a book, my friends seem to gain a magical growth force, but many people have not realized the powerful energy of reading and the power to open it.
Now I have summed up my years of reading and teaching experience, all of which are written in the book "Squeezing Books" to teach you how to squeeze books. I hope you can also gain strength by reading your own growth path.
But it needs to be emphasized that no matter how good the method is, it only solves the problem of "knowing". You need to practice deliberately, solve the problem of "doing" and truly achieve "integration of knowledge and action" in order to make change happen. This is also the idea that I have been emphasizing in the teaching process.
Uncle Akiba once encouraged me to say, "In fact, Gege is a person who has walked a long way and seen a lot of scenery. From ordinary employees to free entrepreneurs, she used 1000 books. It took her two years to go from being a neglected community founder to being reported everywhere. From a newcomer to an education blogger, she spent 100 days. Laughing, dimples are deep and shallow, eyes are curved, and ordinary people can't imagine things. "
In fact, all my achievements stem from the powerful energy of "squeezing books". Now, I also want to share these methods of "squeezing books" with you who have the opportunity to read this book.
Finally, I want to share with you a sentence from teacher Chen Pingyuan:
"If several years later, you wake up in the middle of the night and find that you haven't studied for a long time without any guilt, you must know that you have fallen. It's not that the book itself is extraordinary, but the act of reading means that you don't fully agree with the world and reality. You are still pursuing and struggling, you are still dissatisfied, and you are still looking for another possibility, another way of life. After all, reading is a spiritual life. "
I hope the book "Squeezing Books" can help you open a brand-new road to reading. You can read, really read, read the book as your own, make the change visible, and bloom the flowers of your life.
Read and act to make change happen!