PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT #28 Im going to give you a secret of my success (if my career is considered successful to you). Heres the tip. If you are facing a problem in life (hate your job, cant get enough done, people are mean to you, financial issues, etc.) and you are NOT reading books on how to solve them. You should just get used to your life as is. It will NEVER change. I once heard there is not one problem you can face that someone else hadnt already faced, solved and written a book about. If you dont like reading you will not become successful. Period. Reading allows anyone (even this kid from the projects in Brooklyn, NY) access to solutions and keys to everything. Yes, everything. Books are free in the library. They can order any book you want. Amazon makes books available for pennies. If you dont like your life in any way and refuse to read. Your life will suck. Period. I truly and genuinely believe reading is the one thing that allows everything to change in your life. I didnt read my first book until I was 19 years old. At 19 is also when my life changed. I have been lucky to meet some of the greatest young achievers in the world. They all read books. Why wouldnt you? If you arent willing to read you dont have any right to complain about your life. Period. Theres this great story of Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and from Shark Tank. He started his career selling software. He said he knew nothing about software before the job. He crushed that job and built wealth for himself. How did he do it? The only thing that separated him from everyone else in the field is that he took the time to read the manual for the software. He could answer questions and help people better than anyone else. All the other people had to do was read the manual and they might have been as successful too. (The same manual that was readily available to everyone.) You can be happy. You can be successful. You can have a great love life. You can be fit. You can be healthy. You can be overjoyed with life. But you must start by reading. Just know this. If you are not reading books, you will ultimately lose at life. You have access to books. You have time to read (commutes, waiting in line to buy something, 10 minutes at night before you sleep instead of scrolling through your newsfeed for the 45th time). If you arent willing to put in this particular type of work (reading), dont expect anything to ever change for the good in your life.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 17:31:44 +0000
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