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People might find it crazy to undertake a task of telling readers that reading less can be more. Many would argue as a debater that you’ll need to cover so much material in so little time, the more you want to win, the more you’ll have to read.

I’ll agree to the extend that there’s lots to cover, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got to spend all your time reading. The more important thing is to plan what you read, by knowing what you’re looking for rather than just read whatever you see.

The second thing we need to understand is that activities such as debating are based on communications. Which easily translates to this famous saying; “Practice makes perfect”. The difference between applying it to everything else you engaged in is that when it’s based on communications, anyone can master it. A good analogy is our everyday communications. A Malaysian will know or at least expected to be able to speak Malay and converse with others in the community on a daily basis. So everyone can learn to speak a particular language no matter how foreign it is. However, if the language is not spoken for a long time, you tend to slowly forget it. However, because its communications, the more you speak it, the better you get at it, no matter who you are. It’s different when you talk about football though, some people will never be able to make their school team no matter how much they train. The talent part of it is based on practice when it’s communications but more variables play a part when it’s something else, like Football or Ping-Pong.

So what has this got to do with reading less? Well, the idea of this article is to persuade you to make a realization that when reading as a competitive debater, it is more important for you to read a little everyday than to wait till it’s Sunday and spend 10 hours trying to keep up with what has happened all week. If only we are to test two debaters of similar match, one reading a little everyday while the other does 10 hours every Sunday, I’ll have my money on the former.

As a debater, you need to practice your thinking power, your ability to quote examples and respond dynamically to an unexpected question. What then is better than practicing all those and more by doing a little at a time but do it consistently. The best way to upgrade your manner is by speaking more, it’s just that with matter, loading up would need more than a Sunday a week.

In conclusion, I assure you, that reading half an hour a day is better than 10 hours a week! The latter is better than not reading at all though

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