in this video I wanted to score something I want to share something with
you which I think gives anyone who reveals of the opportunity a huge
advantage and that is the willingness and the commitment to read voraciously
reader loss so the smartest some of the wealthiest people on the face of the
planet put aside a huge amount of time to spend reading and they read
everything to read fiction nonfiction biographies autobiographies newspapers
magazines I myself read a lot I always have and have had for some time at least
two books on the go one is a book that I will be reading on my Kindle and the
other is an audiobook that I will be listening to from through the audible
app which allows me to listen to audiobooks and this way actually yet the
great benefit or advantage of reading two books at any given time and
sometimes even three but I really really enjoy it and I think there's a huge
advantage to be gained from developing a habit
developing a commitment to reading a loss now obviously you need to read what
you find enjoyable he shouldn't be a chore or nor some reading can be a chore
and some reading is a necessary chore especially if you're a solicitor you do
have to do a certain amount of reading anyway of stuff that's not necessarily
going to be all that entertaining but by and large outside of work I would spend
a lot of time reading and the lakes of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates two of the
wealthiest men on the face of the planet they spend a huge amount of time reading
and Warren Buffett said spends anything up to five hours every single day
reading so as I say I have a Kindle that I listen to audiobooks with the audible
app you might say why am I not supporting
Irish bookshops I live in the middle of the countryside and for me to buy a book
any place a physical book I have to go to the Bolivia Valley in Lucan or to say
Valen Caron either way is a 25 mile trip 15
road trip not only that but when I get there the choice of books is not going
to be as wide as I might like and using my Kindle for example I can download in
about 30 seconds an e-book from anywhere in the world in any language at the drop
of a hat even though I'm sitting in my sitting room at home on a Saturday it's
really off in the middle a winter I can look at look for an e-book probably
there was ever written and download in 30 seconds to my Kindle and start
reading do you have advantage obviously of the
Kindle is is you gonna be an older your I said listen to me West isn't the best
and it's great to be able to blow up the to blow up the font on the Kindle now
another thing though that you need to be clearly this is a problem for book shops
and it is a huge problem for book shops and anybody going into book shop game I
certainly wouldn't hold great hopes for them because I simply don't think you
can compete against Amazon over Amazon do quite frankly and it is unfortunate
it's a pity but you can't fight city hall he can't fight against the time
that's going out and the ability for me and people like me to essentially
download a book from anywhere in the world to my device regardless of where
I'm located is a huge advantage there's a huge advantage over book shops but
there's another advantage that I only came to discover the other day and that
was I got an email from Amazon from audible and they essentially said the
email that we notice you gave a one-star review for such-and-such a book last
week we don't want you to be unhappy please allow us to give you another book
in other words you can return that book which it is like and will give you a
credit and you can get another book and I did so when you think about me giving
a review about a book but there wasn't happy with and Amazon
picking it up that was a one-star review this guy is not happy and they send me
an email that weekend saying you're not happy here to have another book on us
like that is impossible to communicate or to compete with and if you're in the
bookshop game I'm going into the bookshop game it's something that you'd
really want to believe or what to consider very very strongly but clearly
the future of the bookshop is physical bookshop is uncertain and the likes of
Amazon who are hugely dominant force in the industry he's not gonna make things
easy unfortunately I have to hold my hands up and say I support Amazon
because of the convenience that I enjoy through the audible app and so my Kindle
and it is unfortunate to see the practical destruction of the physical
book trade but that's it I would encourage you though to develop a habit
of reading and read widely and the benefit the huge benefit of reading is
clearly that you can actually learn from the mistakes of others you don't have to
make the same mistakes over and over again you can actually learn from the
mistakes of others from people who trod the path that you're on before you and
you can avoid those mistakes and that is the smartest part of reading and the
smartest reason for reading to learn from the mistakes of others to avoid the
same mistakes to broaden your mind to see different ways of thinking about
things to see different points of view and obviously there's a huge amount of
enjoyment to be got out of fiction as well fiction books thrillers and so on
and so forth so and I would encourage you to avail of the opportunity to read
develop a habit for reading I know that I've certainly enjoyed and continued to
enjoy on a daily basis my my reading habits which thankfully I've developed
over I suppose many years hope you find this video useful and if you do
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