Many books have "aha moments." Similar to how startups like Facebook focused on 7 friends in 10 days, and Twitter focused on having a user follow 30 people, you have to focus yourself on getting to the aha moment of a book. It’s smooth sailing after that. Some books have pretty early aha moments. For me, books like "Musashi" and "The Antidote" come to mind. Aha moments are different for everyone, and with every book. Here are examples of aha moments that I had to grind through a bit — but were extremely rewarding (spoilers ahead):