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Incite Your Month: January 2021

At CTQ, we kick each month off with a 5 min collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.

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5 books on productivity

Read about what productivity expert David Allen has to say about books on productivity in this post.

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Six tips to start reading daily

Here are six tips from Ankita about how to start reading daily.

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What books significantly impacted your professional growth?

At ChoosetoThinq we have realized is that there's a mindset that is required to be thinking about professional growth in a deliberate manner. Find out more from Harish about it in this post.

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How can I start reading daily?

Want to hear more about how to find reading partners, find apps that can make sure you always have something to read and learn how to build the right kind of reading habit? Read on, this post by Ankita Verma.

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Being Future Ready, with Harish & Ramanand

Harish & Ramanand guest appear on The Startup Operator podcast to share CTQ’s wisdom on how individuals and teams can inculcate systems to 'uplevel' and transform for the future.

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What did Harold Bloom recommend for Bill Gates to read?

When Harold Bloom was asked what he would recommend Bill Gates to read, his answer was not surprising. Find out what it was.

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2 min summaries

A peek at one of our 2 Minute summaries and a link to all of them.

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How can I increase my daily reading?

Sanasi gives us some important tips on how to increase the amount of time you put into reading on a daily basis in this post.

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How to Make Reading a Habit

Sirisha gives you the three aspects of habit formation and several tips to help you improve your reading habit.

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How do you improve your reading habits?

Have you always wanted to improve your reading habits? Ankita gives us several detailed tips with which we can start and sustain a good reading habit.

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Three Tips to Improve your Reading Habits

Ramanand gives you three actionable tips if you are looking to get smarter and better at reading.

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Does reading make you a smarter person?

Does reading making you smarter? How are the two things related? Sanasi helps demystify this connection and make your reading habits better.

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What should you do everyday to improve your reading habits?

Here is Ramanand’s piece on how to make your reading habits work for you.

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Book Reco: “Designing Your Work Life”

How does one design one’s worklife like a pro? Our book recommendation tells you just how!

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[CTQ Smartcast] Is Reading Overrated? A Conversation with Amit Varma

In this Smartcast, Choose To Thinq (and subscribers of the Reading Compounds) met up online with podcaster/writer Amit Varma to discuss reading and writing to habits, curiosity, managing an information diet and so much more.

7 books to read about AI

Artificial Intelligence is a field that fascinates many people. Here are our recommendations for 7 books on AI if you are one of them.

5 takeaways from 'Creativity'

Human creativity is responsible for much that is good and bad about our world. But we don't seem to be able to understand what it really is, or when it springs forward. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book ‘Creativity’ offers some insight.