“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
―Mark Twain
Let me start with a question.
If given two choices, which one would you choose?
- Learn from your own mistakes made in the past 10 years?
- Learn from others’ mistakes made in the past 10 years compiled in a $10 book?
I bet you’d choose the latter. Why would you want to commit your own mistakes when you can learn from the same mistakes made by others?
This is where the power of reading comes into the picture.
Reading books is a great way to learn from the mistakes others have made in their lifetime.
For example,
- If you want to be healthy, learn from someone who has been fit for a long time.
- If you want to be wealthy, learn from someone who has become financially free.
- If you want to be wise, learn from someone who has been reading and executing for a long time.
“There is no problem you can have that someone hasn’t already solved and wrote about it in a book.”
―Will Smith
There is a solution to almost every problem you face (losing weight, building wealth, being happy, etc). When you face a problem, it is most likely that you’re not the first one to have faced it.
Authors have solved these issues and put their learnings in a book that may cost $10 or less and can be finished in 10 hours or less.
A small book is often the accumulation of hundreds of experiences, thousands of hours, and decades of work. Where else can you get the entire life’s work of someone in the space of a few hours?
Books are an incredible source of knowledge. Books contain someone else’s knowledge — in many cases, gathered over a lifetime — and compressed into a few pages that can be read in just a few hours.
Consistent reading can bring you a fortune.
Book Recommendations
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads — at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
―Charlie Munger
OK. You got the importance of reading books. Struggling to pick a book?
Here are some of my favorite book recommendations:
If you want to know more about money, start with Rich Dad Poor Dad.
If you want to know how to build habits, start with Atomic Habits.
If you want to automate your finances, start with I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
If you want to know how everyday millionaires live, start with The Millionaire Next Door.
If you want to change your mindset, start Mindset.
If you want to transform your life radically, start with The Compound Effect.
If you want to be more productive, start with Getting Things Done.
If you want to know more about history, start with Sapiens.
Pick whatever book you’re interested in. If you don’t like it, pick an other one.
Overwhelmed with the options?
Start with Rich Dad Poor Dad. You will figure out what to read next.
Well, you know what to read but struggling to start the habit of reading?
To know more about habit building, click here.