Growth Mindset

Read To Succeed

David Chun

01.26.22

Want to be surprised? For a long time, David Chun was not a big book reader! Though he avidly consumed media, he didn't start reading books until a coach pushed him to do so, and he now wishes he started earlier.

Read To Succeed

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Want to be surprised? For a long time, David Chun was not a big book reader! Though he avidly consumed media, he didn’t start reading books until a coach pushed him to do so, and he now wishes he started earlier.

Thuy

What do you wish you had learned earlier in life? And what do you intentionally now do to keep learning?
David_Chun

David Chun

Candidly, I was not a big book reader, early on.

Thuy

Really?
David_Chun

David Chun

I was always an avid reader, I mean, like I'm a media junkie, right? I'm reading the journal, I'm reading the Times, I'm reading Bears, I'm reading all this stuff. So I'm always staying on top of stuff in the media. I had this CEO coach for a while and then he's like, you don't read books? And then I'm like is something wrong with me? And then yeah, and then I just started, but as you point out, I became a huge, huge fan. So in hindsight, I wish I started earlier.

Thuy

So now what do you do intentionally to keep learning?
David_Chun

David Chun

Well, so definitely on the books, the Audible I go through, I feel like at least one audible book a week. I play it at 1.3. Thankfully in the Zoom world, there's no shortage of webinar opportunities to listen in on things. Always looking for replays and then figuring out a way to play them at 1.3 and condense the time and stuff.
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