ReadingHow long does it take to read a book? Worked out properly
A typical 300-page book takes most adults between five and six hours of actual reading. Here is the arithmetic, the common lengths and what makes your own number move.
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Journal
Notes from inside the method.
The method behind the scenes, what the axes mean, and why a book written for everybody was never going to work for you.
Reading
ReadingHow many books can you read in a year? The arithmetic, honestly
Before you pick a number for this year's reading goal, it helps to know what your minutes actually buy. The answer is usually more than you think, and less than the internet suggests.
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ReadingHow to read faster without understanding less
The honest answer is less exciting than the courses promise: you can read somewhat faster, mostly by reading more and wasting less, and almost never by reading ten times faster.
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- Games
Kokology questions with answers: nine scenes to try tonight
A key in the grass, a letter not meant for you, a bridge you cannot see the end of. Nine short scenes to play, each followed by what it is said to reveal.
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CultureRed pill or blue pill: what the choice in The Matrix actually means
Two pills, one open palm each. The scene lasts about a minute, and it gave everyday English a shorthand for choosing what is true over what is comfortable.
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GamesThe cube test: what the cube, ladder, horse, flowers and storm mean
A desert, a cube, a ladder, a horse, some flowers and a storm. Here is what each symbol is said to mean, and how to read your own picture without taking it too seriously.
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- Games
The forest test: what the walk, the house and the wall mean
Who walks beside you, what blocks the path, what you do at the wall. The forest test has seven stops, and each one is said to stand for something.
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- Method
A type is not a tempo: kokology next to the tests you already know
You already know your four letters. They have never once told you what to do on Monday morning — and there is a structural reason for that.
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- The books
Four subjects, one reader: how to pick the right book
Each of the four takes a subject and writes it for the way you move. The scenes change with the subject, so the choice is not cosmetic. Here is how to tell which one is yours.
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- The books
How a book written for one reader actually gets made
No file sits on a shelf waiting for you. Here is the whole chain, from the scenes you answer to the PDF with your name on the cover — including what we deliberately withhold.
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- Method
It is not astrology, and here is how you check
Plenty of things that describe you are really describing everybody. Three questions tell you which kind you are looking at — and you can run them on us.
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MethodThe six axes: a short field guide to how you move
Six lines, no good end and no bad end. Each one changes which advice will work on you — and which will waste a month before you notice.
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- Method
What is kokology? The method behind the twenty-one scenes
A corridor, a bag, a name called from behind you. Kokology asks what you would do — never what you believe about yourself — and the difference is the whole method.
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ReadingWhy the self-help book you finished changed nothing
You read it, you agreed with it, you underlined things. Six weeks later nothing had changed. The problem is rarely the advice — it is who the advice was written for.
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Reading about it is not the same as being read.
Twenty-one scenes, about eight minutes, no account. You see your reading and your contents page before anything is bought.
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