A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 72). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Time, it’s so important how we use it, isn’t it? He says, “Apparently, I’m known as a ‘reader.’ I read two or three books a week, which normally comes in at around one hundred and twenty-five books a year. And I feel pretty good about that. At least I did. Until I read Charles Chu’s calculations. The average American reads two hundred to four hundred words per minute. At that speed, we could all read two hundred books a year, nearly twice my quota, in just 417 hours. “Sounds like a lot, right? 417? That’s over an hour a day. But can you guess how much time the average American spends on social media each year? The number is 705 hours. TV…2,737.5 hours. “Meaning, for just a fraction of the time we give to social media and television, we could all become avid readers to t
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...