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Reading is something we all should do but don’t. We were speaking to the Executive Vice-President of the Orlando Magic who works with a lot a young men, and he said that the average person once they graduate from college never reads another book. I am not sure about that, but after many years of questioning and researching I can definitely say that the average person reads less than two books a year. This is a national crime, and if you are not reading you should get busy and start. If you have children and they see you read, they will read, and reading does separate people from the success and failure bins of life.
It doesn’t even matter what you read as long as you do. It is food for your brain and is a wonderful way to get started to more success.
You don’t have to have a college degree to be educated, but if you read you will become an expert in a field after only reading five or so books! Amazing, isn’t it?! You could be the expert by only reading five books. (Make sure they are the right five books.)
How much more could we be if we made reading something that we should do? How much more opportunity would our children have if they read a little bit every day instead of playing video games or other distractions that they are doing now instead of reading.
If a child is taught to read he or she has the whole world open up to them. Otherwise it becomes a closed universe to the next generation, and in some cases to our own generation.
When I went to corporate meetings I always took a book, and people would say, “Step always is reading”. There was down time that I could use to figure something out, learn something new. Most high achievers are great readers. How are you doing?
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