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Originally Posted by FatGuy
Thanks a lot for the replies! I'm still reading them now.
Thanks! Some are college related, but some are just 'educational' books that are highly recommended to me and when it comes to actually reading the book I get a tonne of anxiety. How can I reduce the anxiety I feel and be able to read the books?
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Ok the college books I get the anxiety.
The highly recommended books why get anxious?
Think of it this way, do you have to give someone all your money if you don't remember everything in this highly recommended book? Will they throw you in jail over this book? Will they throw you out of your house?
Will you starve if you don't remember this book?
On the college books, yes they are vaguely important to your future. That being the next 16 weeks or so. Just take copious notes on them.
On the other books, they don't mean a darn thing to your future. I mean if you read it and get something out of it great, if not, you haven't lost anything. So quit worrying about what others think of a book and just read it for pleasure if you want to read it. If you don't want to read it, say thanks for the suggestion and go on.
Heck I could tell you that Dale Carnegie is highly recommended. (How to win friends and influence people.) Personally, I never could get into that book. Or Steven Covey's the 7 habits of highly effective people. Personally didn't get much out of that one either.
Heck I get more out of a Chicken Soup for the Soul book.
So hun, if a non-college related book is making you anxious, just don't read it.