After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep it's edge." - George R.R.If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. Pick up one of the classic books I list here, make a commitment to read for at least15-20 minutes every day and, you will begin to discover a whole new YOU and a whole new WORLD! It gives you benchmarks, gold standards and absolute truths. Reading makes you ask questions and wonder about life. Reading gives you the power to understand people and life. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” Holding a stack of papers and reports he replied, “Read 500 pages like this every day. Warren Buffet was once asked about the secret to his success as an investor. Unless we cultivate the love for reading, it will have a negative impact on the future generations. Because fewer parents are reading or investing in a library of books, fewer children are reading these days. All the “busyness” is making fewer people read these days. People spend endless hours watching movies, videos on YouTube, playing video games or chatting on social media. People are enslaved by technology and have an instant gratification mindset. We now live a robotic life in a fast-paced digital world with no time for non-digital activities such as reading.
Eventually it became a life changing habit. In the beginning, reading became a necessity and a deliberate practice to succeed in business and life. I discovered how “unsharp” I was when I became an entrepreneur. I was not going to read any more books until I found the value of reading books and not just textbooks. For me reading was a chore that ended when I finished college. I am one of those fortunate ones who learnt about the importance of reading through my mentors and business associates. Thanks to father's library, Wilbur Wright, the older of the two brothers, got fascinated with flight and rest is history. Bishop Wright was eager to encourage boy's education, but he did let them skip school if they wanted to take advantage of the books at home instead. The Wright brothers owe it to their father Bishop Milton Wright for stocking their modest home with books. As a society, we are grateful to those who invested in books and cultivated the reading habit in their children. Every successful person owes his or her success to a good reading habit.
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