Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Think Like a Genius
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book per week. One book per week will amount to about 50 books
per year. Fifty books per year will total about 500 books over the
next 10 years. At the very least, you will need a bigger house just to
hold your books, and you will probably be able to afford it as well.
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GIVE YOURSELF THE EDGE
According to the American Booksellers Association, fully 70 per-
cent of American adults have not visited a bookstore in the last five
years. The average American reads less than one book per year; 58
percent of adult Americans never read another book from cover to
cover after they leave high school.
Meanwhile, in the information age, if you are not reading con-
tinuously you are in serious danger of being made obsolete by the
passage of time. However, if you read one hour per day, one book
per week, you will be getting the equivalent of a Ph.D. in your field
every year.You will become one of the smartest, best-informed, and
most productive people in your business.
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