If you think about it, books are a collection of thoughts, ideas, experiences and knowledge. And those were collected by someone who dedicated their attention, time and focus, to join everything together and compact those ideas in a book that only takes you a few hundred pages to read. And so you have access to all of that information in only one book that you can read in a few hours. When you read a book by Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss or George Orwell, you have the opportunity to download a piece of their mental software that you can later apply what you learned into your own life. Basically, by reading books, we can learn in a few hours, what the author's spend months, years, decades or a Lifetime Learning. It took me 15 minutes to read a chapter about the book, but it's took years years and years to collect the data.
This information and make it possible for me to understand. So I really want you to reflect on this idea. You have access to the most brilliant minds on this planet by only reading books, you have access to their wisdom, their experiences, as well as their past failures. So I think it's not possible to not enjoy reading, you might think you don't like it, but maybe you just weren't picking up the right books for you. Remember, with a single book, you can download a piece of someone's mind. The question is, whose software do you want to hack or download?
If you're interested in stoicism, you can hack the mind of Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. If you're into management, you can hack the mind of Peter Drucker, if you run a business, you can hack the mind of Jeff Bezos by reading his biography. So ask yourself whose software do I want to access and do it? Charlie Munger said, I constantly see people rising life who are not the smartest Sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up. And boy, does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you?
Do you need another reason to read more? Besides having the power to access someone's mind? Well, the most successful people on earth read every single day and they are certain that's one of the reasons why they are so successful. Here's what Warren Buffett says about reading read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
All of you can do it, but I guarantee you not many of you will do it. I surely don't read 500 pages every day. But I would love to Bill Gates reads 50 nonfiction books every single year, Elon Musk read an entire encyclopedia when he was nine years old. And Ben Franklin also sad. From a child I was found reading in The little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Reading a bunch of books is not a requirement to be successful, but it surely helps.
I've been obsessed with reading books since I was very young. When I was a kid, I slept with books instead of sleeping with adults. And I got into nonfiction books a few years ago, which was a life changing experience. I keep a record of all the books I read in Goodreads, which is kind of a social platform for people who read books in 2015. I read 53 books, in 2016. I read 57 books, and in 2017, I read 54 books.
So I've been quite consistent with the habit of reading every single day, and I really want to help you out create the same habits for yourself.