【指南】3个窍门让你一周读完一本书

How To Read A Book A Week -- 3 Proven Tricks 

中英文文稿：

How to read a book a week? 

怎样能做到一周读一本书呢？

As cliche as it sounds, we all know that people who read succeed. 

尽管听起来有些陈词滥调，但道理我们都清楚，书中自有黄金屋。

I mean, look at the numbers eighty-five percent of millionaires read at least two books per month, while 25 percent of the entire American population hasn't even read a single book all of last year. 

我想说的是，看看这组数字，有85%的百万富翁每月至少读两本书，而美国总人口中，有25%的人在去年连一本书都没读过。

So what's the best way to actually get yourself to start reading, and at a good pace so that you can succeed too.

那么，什么才是让自己开始阅读的最佳方法，还能达到很不错的阅读速度，从而获得成功呢？

Well, you can basically guarantee that you'll read a book a week by taking advantage of three psychological tricks. 

基本上，你可以通过利用三个心理方面的技巧来保证每周读一本书。

The first is something called implementation intention. 

第一个技巧被称为实施意图。

Basically, setting an appointment. 

大意就是订个时间。

See the biggest problem when it comes to reading is actually getting started. 

在谈到阅读时，最大的问题就是如何开始阅读。

So many people buy books that they're interested in, and say to themselves: oh, I'll definitely read this. 

很多人会买他们感兴趣的书，然后对自己说：哦，我一定要读完这本书。

And guess what?�

猜猜会怎样？

The book just sits there on their shelf, never to be touched again.�

这本书就放在他们的书架上，再没被碰过了。

By physically writing down, the time and place of when you'll start reading a book, you're essentially setting up an appointment to do so. 

当你准备开始读一本书的时候，可以写下读书的时间和地点，就像是要准备去完成一件事一样。

And think about it, we don't really miss our appointments, when was the last time you completely skip a job interview or a visit to your doctor? 

想想看，你最近一次放弃工作面试或放弃看医生是什么时候，其实没有人真的想错过约定的事宜的。

Sure you might have been late, but when you set an appointment, you know that you have to show up and you usually do. 

当然你很可能会迟到，但是当你设定了一个事宜的话，你就很清楚自己必须要去做，这也是你通常的做法。

The second psychological trick - reading a book a week is to use what's called chunking. 

第二个心理诀窍一每周读一本书一一就是使用所谓的分步走。

Basically, breaking down a big task into smaller ones. 

基本上，就是把一个大任务分解成若干个小任务。

One of the main reasons people start reading books and never finish is because the task seems way too big. 

人们开始看书却没有读完的主要原因之一就是，这项任务看上去太大了。

It feels like we can't do it, just take a look at the average non-fiction book which is about 200 pages long. 

我们会感觉自己做不到，那就拿起一本200多页的非小说类书籍试试。

How long do you think it takes to read that entire thing in one sitting? 

你觉得要花多长时间才能一次性读完整本书？

You're probably thinking 10 or 15 hours, maybe? 

你可能会认为要10或15个小时？

Well, in reality the average human can read a 200-page book in about five hours, which means you really only have to spend 45 minutes a day on reading, which probably accounts to just a chapter or two. 

实际上，一般人可以在五个小时之内读完一本200页的书，也就是说你一天只需花45分钟看书，就能看完一两章内容。

So, instead of saying okay, I'm gonna read tomorrow, right out of lunch at home. 

所以，我不想说：好吧，明天我就在家里，吃完午饭之后就去看书。

It's much more effective to say: okay, I'll read the next chapter tomorrow after lunch at home. 

这样说会更有效：好的，我明天在家里吃完午饭后就读完下一章内容。

When you break down a book - its chapters and even further - its subsections which most nonfiction books have, then your brain will no longer see it as a huge obstacle that you have to overcome. 

当你把一本书一一按章节或者更长的部分划分一一将大多数非小说类书籍分解成几个组成部分时，这样在你的大脑中就不会再把它看成是你必须要克服的巨大障碍了。

Instead of thinking, oh my god, this is gonna take forever. You'll think, ah, that's easy, I can definitely do that. 

你就不会去想，我的天啊，这得花多长时间啊。而是去想，这太容易了，我肯定能做到的。

And finally the last psychological trick to reading a book a week is to use what's called temptation bundling. 

最后，每周读一本书的最后一个心理诀窍就是使用所谓的诱惑捆绑。

Basically, taking a task that you don't enjoy that much, and it's touching it to something that you really really enjoy. 

基本上是说，接受一项你不太喜欢的任务，然而它触及到你真正喜欢的东西。

For example, you can tell yourself that after every chapter or subsection of a chapter you read, you're gonna reward yourself with the next episode or the next segment of that TV show you love watching. 

例如，你可以告诉自己，在你读完的每一章或每一小节之后， 你会奖励自己，去看你喜欢看的电视节目的下一集或下一段。

By doing this, just a couple of times, it will actually start to feel good to read. 

这样做几次后，你就会开始觉得阅读是很棒的。

Because your brain will start to associate it with something very pleasurable. 

因为你的大脑会开始把它和一些令人愉快的事情联系在一起。

It's gonna think, wow, every time I read a chapter or subsection, I feel great after. 

你就会想，哇，每次我读完一章或一小节后，我都感觉很爽。

Now, what you might find is that you actually start to read more chapters than you need. 

之后你可能就会发现，自己实际的阅读量要比规定的章节更多。

By combining all of these three tricks, you'll end up with something like this. 

将这三个窍门结合在一起，你将会收获到这样的结果。