Here is an example of how it plays out for me. As a 21 year old entrepreneur, my goal is to learn from highly successful people as a means to improve and grow on my skills. With only 2 years of hands-on business experience, the most time and cost-effective way for me to learn is to study what other successful people have learned from their years of experience.
The bottom line is this - by reading from successful people, it allows you to learn from their experience thus shortening the learning curve for you!
One of my role models, Brian Tracy, sums it up really well in his Performance Magazine article entitled "The Discipline of Reading." He says, "Remember, it may take an author ten to twenty years to learn his subject and years to write a book on it. You probably are getting the results of twenty-five years of effort by one of the smartest people in your field."
*TIP* Many other successful professionals have advised me personally to take on speed reading and Brian Tracy even suggests this in the above article. Many of them, including Brian Tracy, have recommended the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program (found below).
We are all familiar with Sir Francis Bacon's famous quote "Knowledge is power." If knowledge is the fuel for our mind, reading is what fuels our mind with knowledge!
What have you read lately?
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