Where Will Ten Pages a Day Take You in a Year?

Ten pages a day equals fifteen books a year: that's the arithmetic this book builds its case on. Drawing on a twelve-year Yale study by Avni Bavishi, Martin Slade, and Becca Levy, the author shows that book readers outlived non-readers even after controlling for education, income, and health. The key distinction: newspapers didn't produce the same effect. What matters isn't reading but deep reading, the cognitive work of following plots and constructing worlds. The habit's real return is compound interest for the mind.

You'll learn:

- Why ten pages almost never stays ten pages

- How habit placement beats willpower every time

- The difference between a floor and a target