How I Read When I Have Too Much To Read

The art of building a blossoming reading list.

If you’re anything like me, your to-read pile grows faster than you can keep up.

Seeing your to-read list swell like this can make you feel as if you’re not reading enough. Worse, it can make you feel overwhelmed and unmotivated.

I felt like this for a long time, when I tried to read as many Substacks, blogs, articles and books as I could.

I ended up feeling frazzled, unable to take anything useful away from what I read. I was rushing to read stuff that turned out to be boring, and then I forced myself to carry on reading it anyways.

This is what happens when wanting to read turns into having to read.

But then, something clicked for me:

I will always have too much to read, and so will you.

There will always be another book, article or blog to devour.

Trying to get to “inbox zero” on your reading list is pointless and stressful. Given that you’re probably drowning in too much information, it doesn’t make sense to shovel as much of it into your eyes as you can. That would just turn your brain…