Why do I Read So Many Books?

The question I often hear.

This is the constant question my friends and the people who know me ask me, every time they see me holding a book.

So today I’m going to answer them.

Question

First I have a question for you. Have you ever wondered what makes some people reach superhuman levels of success or why two people can have the same idea and one will end up in failure and the other will dominate the world?

You see, I once heard the story of Henry Ford. Henry Ford was a regular employee working at a plant with his hands and he was working alongside another guy.

Twenty-five years later, that guy was still working at that plant while Ford was the richest person on Earth. And I wondered what could explain such a difference in people’s lives.

Was he born with special talents?

Was he just smarter than everyone else?

And what about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah, J.K. Rowling, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, and all the people we look up to what makes them able to do such amazing things?

And I found the answer “anyone who’s achieved anything beyond mediocrity knew things were never taught in school .”

They were insiders. And the cool thing is that everything they discovered is available to you if you know how to take advantage of it. Think about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or even Oprah.

How much more do they know than others that are doing or did the same things they are? And how much more do they know than you and me now?

It may seem obvious, but great performers know more than average ones.

And it’s no wonder that a lot of the world’s most successful people credit their success, or at least a large part of it to reading and learning.

Traditional learning

It’s that everything we’ve been taught about learning is wrong. Everything about traditional learning is wrong.

Now, that may seem kind of radical to say it’ll make perfect sense by the end of the course, but let’s take a quick look together now.

Why is it that most people will tell you what they learned in school had no impact on their lives?

Why is it that year after year goes by and people are no closer to living their dreams? It may sound like I’m attacking the education system.

I’m not.

All I’m saying is that school failed to be able to move us forward in our lives.

If you want to move your life forward, if you want to get better at what you do, if you want to contribute to the world, you’ll need to unlearn what you learned in school. You need to unlearn that traditional learning.

There is an American writer who said:

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the person who can’t read. It will be the person who was not learned.

Just remember most people won’t read a single book a year. Most CEOs & other business leaders read at a voracious pace of more than one book per week!