sir in your youtube video on 15 books to read , you have told read atleast 3 to 4 hrs a day . but as begginer in reading its hard to read even 1 hr. what should we do then?

That 3–4 hour figure is a destination, not day one. Nobody starts there — stamina builds exactly like gym stamina: small, consistent, gradually loaded.

Start with 15–20 minutes a day, at a fixed time. Fixed time matters more than duration, because the habit sticks to the slot, not to your motivation. Early mornings or right after dinner work well for most people.

For the first few weeks, read whatever you genuinely enjoy in English — fiction, cricket long-forms, true crime, anything. Beginners abandon reading when they force dense editorials on themselves from day one. The goal in month one is showing up daily, not syllabus coverage.

Once 20 minutes feels easy (usually 2–3 weeks), add 15 minutes. Keep adding every couple of weeks. In about three months you'll naturally be sitting at 2+ hours without feeling it. That's how people hit the 3–4 hour mark the video mentions — they ramped up.

Around the one-month mark, start shifting your material toward CAT-flavoured reading: newspaper editorials (The Hindu, Indian Express), Aeon essays, Guardian long reads, and one non-fiction book. These are dense, opinion-heavy pieces — exactly what RC passages feel like.

One more thing that matters more than hours: read actively. After every article, write 2–3 lines on what the author's main point was and whether you agree. Summarising the author's argument is the actual skill CAT RC tests — hours of passive reading builds far less than 30 minutes of this.

So don't measure yourself in hours yet. Measure in days completed. A 20-minute streak you actually keep beats a 3-hour plan you quit by Thursday.

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