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"To me, reading is more than a raw input. I read to increase knowledge. I read to find meaning. I read for better understanding of others and myself. I read to discover. I read to make my life better. I read to make fewer mistakes." - fs blog
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Invest in Time
How do you value your time? We can make more money; we can’t make more time. Use your time to read, to gather insights that will save us from mistakes.
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“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it.”
MACHIAVELLI
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We’ve been recording knowledge in books for a long time.
Odds are that no matter what you’re working on, someone somewhere, who is smarter than you, has probably thought about your problem and put it into a book.
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“Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.”
SENECA
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“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.”
CHARLIE MUNGER
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