YOU MUST READ A LOT TO SUCCEED!
Here are the reasons:
1. Varied, diverse input of ideas, viewpoints, life stories, examples, all the essential raw material poured into your subconscious mind, for it to sift, sort, try matching up with other puzzle pieces it already has, so it can occasionally yell “Eureka!” and hand you something profitable or life changing… Without the new stuff it just sleeps and you wander aimlessly through life. Wealth Secret! You can’t manufacture anything without raw material.
2. Without exposure to others’ thinking your own range of thought shrinks.
Soon, you’re a mental midget. Your range of thought narrows, like your range of motion shrinks if you don’t move and stretch.3. You can’t stay current.
You must read a monstrous amount and you’ll probably still be behind. You should be reading a book or two, half dozen magazines, a few newspapers every week.
If not you become a dinosaur.4. If you want to influence anyone, including your children, they need to see you advancing and reading.
They need to hear you talking about and acting on what you read.
Every successful person I know reads a lot. Now, I don’t know if that’s just a coincidence, but I doubt it. Either way – it’s an easy thing you can commit to doing to improve your chances of improving in any field you’re in.
I don’t know where I heard this first, but people who don’t read, get the same amount of information as people who can’t read!
UPDATE (2/9/11)- got a lot of emails and facebook messages yesterday asking what I’m currently reading.
Here’s the list that I’m getting through right now:
Training: Conditioning for Soccer by Raymond Verheijen
Nutrition: Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
Business/Mindset: Mind over Money by Klontz , The Art of NonConformity by Guillebeau
59 seconds by Wiseman
Newsletters: Dan Kennedy Marketing Newsletter, James Malinchak Speaking Hot Sheet, Nick Nanton Branding Newsletter
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