How to not waste time reading a bad book

Simone Bocedi
5 min readDec 20, 2021

If you’re like me, you like to invest time reading. Have you ever thought about getting a higher ROI?

These are the books I’ve read this year.

💚 Great to fantastic book

💜 Not great, not terrible

🧡 Save your time

Below, I’ll even tell you which ones you should add to your 2022 list.

Before, I want to share what stood out after drawing this image.

40+ books in 2021

First, I realized I wasted a lot of time reading books that were not great nor fantastic. Am I richer (mentally) because of those tens of books that were at their best mediocre?

Honestly? I’m not that sure.

Could I have spent the time better? Yes. For instance, I could have read something great instead.

I hear you ask: ‘But how would you know a book is great if you don’t read it first?’

There are ways I’ll try in 2022. Let me know what you think.

First, let’s talk about non-fiction.

I believe one could carefully pick 10 to 30 books, read them repeatedly, and get most of the information they’d need.

When we think about personal development, there probably is a ‘too much is too much’: most of what we can…

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Simone Bocedi
Simone Bocedi

Written by Simone Bocedi

On a mission is to inspire others to be the best versions they can ever be.