The book was 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell. It's been a year since then, I still have the book.) I stole a book while I was interning at a law firm whose name I shall not disclose (actually I had borrowed it and had told my mentor that I would give it back in a month when I return to take my certificate. Really, if someone had told me to do it, I would never have cared. It had nothing to do with chasing success, or because I was 'told' to read. It started as a small experiment, to see how far I could go. In the summer of last year, I started reading again. Fine, many of those were forced upon me by school and college. Up until a year ago, the grand total of books I had read for the 26 years of my existence was 35.
And yet, reading is seen as one of the most boring and arduous tasks for people. The correlation between reading and success in life has been sufficiently portrayed. Clearly some of us are born readers while the rest of us have to drudge through to finish even half a book. That's tantamount to reading an average-length novel in less than five minutes. The fastest reader in the world is Howard Stephen Berg who holds the world record for reading 25,000 words a minute.
In fact, a study of 1200 wealthy people found that they all have reading as a pastime in common. The list is not endless but just to give you a taste, here are some more names - Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Cuban. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychologist, lecturer, author, and YouTube sensation, read a book a day in his younger years. Similarly, if you've seen the Web television series, Inside Bill's Brain, you must have seen that he too is a voracious reader and has been ever since his teenage. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it."Īs a matter of fact, Buffet still devotes 80% of each day to reading. When asked about his key to success, Warren Buffet pointed to a stack of books nearby and said, "Read 500 pages like this everyday. What's the one thing that most consistently successful people have in common? The title should give you a hint: they are voracious readers.
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