I'm now biting the hand that feeds me since I do make my living in addition to live workshops and seminars, creating videos for online video based courses, but I have found that the most productive people in the world even if they consume a lot of video based courses, put a primacy on reading. You cannot read passively, it takes active work by your brain, your eyes thinking, you can sort of sit back in a couch and fall asleep halfway through a TED talk. Tell yourself you've learned something, but it's going to progress to the next idea whether you're asleep or not. Reading isn't like that. You shut your eyes, not a single more word is going to enter any part of your brain. So the beauty of reading is it is a more active engagement with the brain.

It causes more focus, I believe it causes a lot more stimulation to and that's why the most productive People in the world and yet most of the time, they're exceptions. You could have dyslexia you could be bought. There's all sorts of different physical situations. But on the whole, I find the most productive people don't tell themselves well, I don't like to read. They love to read, because it actively engages the mind. And it's the most efficient way to learn new information to go deep to really think and contemplate, you can read a paragraph, stop, think about it, connect the dots to other things, you know, in a way you're not as likely to do stopping and starting a podcast, or even a course like this, and hey, I'm a big fan of online video based courses.

But please, make reading a fundamental part of your daily existence. And reading books, not news, or not exclusively news. Not celebrity tabloid stuff, but actually Books could be fiction could be nonfiction but actual books