The best secret weapon is that which can be employed quickly and easily. Warren Buffet’s secret weapon is reading and he is not alone.
According to Buffet, he spends 80% of his day reading. 500 pages a day. He says reading is like compound interest, it builds on itself.
CNBC lists a number of studies by business leaders, scientists, and academic journals, all of which demonstrate a correlation between voracious reading and successful results in a broad range of categories.
Another interesting correlation is the minimal amount of television hours watched by successful people. One study reports 67 percent of rich people limited TV time to one hour or less per day. That might be a hard number to hit, but almost everyone could cut the national average 5 hours of TV watching in half and use that time to read 250 pages a day. You could start with our free book, 51 Life Lessons Every Boomer Male Should Have Learned By Now.
Or do those exercises we keep promising we’ll start tomorrow. But then we’d have to start by moving the clothes hanging on the treadmill in the bedroom.
Got some great ideas on how we can gain some time to make reading a habit? Let us know in the comment section below.
