Why read 100 books in a year?
Why read 100 books in a year? You read because you want to learn from other people's experience. Otto von Bismarck put it best: "Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." If you want to get anywhere in this world, you need to educate yourself, and to educate yourself you need to read-a lot.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Win Your Inner Battles: Defeat the Enemy Within and Live With Purpose by Darius Foroux
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Third, learn from others; as Newton said, if he saw further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants. Reading widely lets you borrow the hard-won experience of others rather than paying full price for your own — for only the fool insists on learning solely from his own mistakes; and a simple, powerful habit before any big transition is to ask people who have already been through it what they wish they had known beforehand. Fourth, and this is a hard one, love truth more than you love being right — which means being willing to admit you are wrong, and welcoming new information even when it overturns a belief you held dear, because now you finally have the truth. […] Trust the daily over the dramatic. What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while; automate the routine so your energy is free for what matters; and master the basics rather than chasing shortcuts. Stay a student of the world. Read widely to borrow other people's experience; learn by doing, not only by reading; ask those ahead of you what they wish they'd known; and question everything, passing each claim through a sieve before you keep it. To my children, and to theirs: — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)