In the past month I made a point to read one full book a day for thirty days. I got there, mostly, but the problem is that I dd not learn as much as I wanted. I don't have that good a memory and most of those books were not that deep. Also I was spending four to eight hours a day reading right after coming from a full day at work. Also most of the time I was doing this reading well after midnight and almost falling asleep. This was not the best way to do things, but it was also not the point. The real point of this exercise was to jump start my self into a new set of habits. My current life plans for the future require that I completely change the way I look at myself and the world. I could have made a point to read a book a week or follow some kind of long term plan that would eventually get me somewhere in a year if I managed to stay with it, but there is no way that was going to happen. My view of how things are done as well as my habits from a month ago would have pushed me along for a few day of a week, but eventually I would have found some excuse to stop and move on to some other thing. The only way I was ever going to move past that was to do something stupid like read a lot of books in a short time and hope that one or more of those books would change my world view into something that could sustain a more healthy habit structure, and I think this is what happened. Every night so far my first thought has been to sit down and read something. I will not do this every night but I am doing other related things that involve absorbing new information. I cannot remember most of the facts that I read but I do remember the general idea. For the next little while, I will work on expanding on that.