How to Become Self Educated | Jim Rohn Pt 1

today is a mysterious day the idea takes The roots begin to grow and appear in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle but capture the ideas in your journal discover how things work shelf gave me this word to change my life he said study big word if you want to be successful study success if you want to be happy study happiness if you want to be rich study wealth don't leave it to chance make it a study some people just spend the day with their fingers crossed Look, that doesn't help. You have to study the things that can change your personal, economic, social, spiritual life.

Now here's a qualifying phrase. We will have several of these qualifying phrases throughout the seminar. Here you have the first one. Maybe you're not. capable of doing everything you discover. I understand that you may not be able to do everything you discover, but you should discover everything you can do. You don't want to end up at the end of your life and find out that you haven't. I've only lived a tenth of it and the other nine tenths went down the drain not because of lack of opportunity or lack of information so that's the number one thing to figure out how things work.

Now here is the best human virtue to discover curiosity, take note of that Curiosity, be it curious accounts, you can add a word that helps child curiosity. What will children do if they want to know something that bothers you? That's the phrase. They can ask a thousand questions. You think they have three. They have another thousand. it will take you to the edge it is a virtue when you must know how to be like a child now if you are curious let me give you three ways to discover how to change anything in any direction of life in any dimension here are three ways to discover how to change anything, number one is reading, becoming a good reader, all the successful people I know and work with around the world, they are all good readers, curiosity drives them to read, they should know that they just read, read, read, read,

become

a good reader now. that's my opinion listen to the other teachers and listen to me and make your own decisions don't be a follower be a student okay I mean really for a life change you have to read one way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn learn is from other people's experiences seeing a book could save you five years if you read it did you know there are books on how to be stronger more decisive be a speaker be a leader have a better effect on other people develop your personality Did you know that there are books about that and people don't read them, how would you explain that and can they read?

Did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and written how they did it? and people don't read it, how would they do it? You explain to him that the guy is busy, I guess you know you're tied, the guy says well, yeah, you work where I work, but when you get home it's late, you have to buy dinner, watch some TV, go to bed, you can't sit down. up half the night reading reading reading reading and the guys behind on their car payment good worker sincere worker but you have to be better than sincere and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you will end up cold Stony broke you have to know better than a good worker you have to be a good reader my opinion now you don't have to read half the night that's fine, although if you're broke it's not a bad place to start, continue with The Cure but put this in your notes 30 minutes a day just spend 30 minutes a day reading extend it to an hour if you can but at least 30 minutes 30 minutes a day read something positive something challenging something inspiring something instructive at least 30 minutes a day and here's the next clue every day no miss out once you've set this up just don't miss a meal but not your 30 minutes because you can get by without some meals but you can't get by without some books abroad there is a biblical phrase that says humans You cannot live on bread alone or just about food, he says that the next most important thing after food is that words nourish the Mind makes us different from animals and dogs.

Words nourish the soul, that is why humans have to have food and words to be happy and healthy. The other day my staff read so little that they have mental rickets and are mentally malnourished, so to have a good word diet I suggest good reading habits 30 minutes a day. Now some people don't read because I don't read well I get it and the national average is pretty poor people have pretty poor reading skills they are still trying to operate old awkward skills from the past correctly by reading one word at a time and with such poor skills when you read The mind usually wanders because you can think about many things.

The mind is an incredible mechanism and if you read poorly, your mind wanders thinking about other things while you are trying to read. Have you ever read a page and wondered what it said? right, so I have to read that again right, that's because the mind is just doing this job right, just wandering around, have you ever read your

self

to sleep? See that's another problem, the mind says who needs this it just turns off certain poor skills when a guy looks at a 500 page book and says no you're off to a good start. I mean, I would never finish this one anyway.

In our weekend seminar we took an entire section of about two three hours and looked at reading skills, how to read a book a day is the title. about that topic and I will tell you that if you can read a book a day, it will change your entire life. I mean, a book a day will change your entire life. Expose your

self

to a whole variety of things. Spiritual, Moral, Personal, Economic, History, Geography. All I'm saying is that you can really change if you read a book a day, so you might want to go on the weekend and learn those reading class skills.

It's incredible, a book a day will change your life, but hey, if you read slowly or quickly or if you read. clumsily or if you read well here is the key reading, don't miss this is what reading is reading is taking advantage of The treasure of ideas that is what reading is taking advantage of The treasure of ideas and ideas can change any part of your life And if you have a good excuse not to take advantage of the treasure of ideas at least 30 minutes a day or spend the money and get the bugs. I'd love to hear it.

Some people have excuses you wouldn't believe. I say John, look, I have this gold mine. So much gold I don't know what to do with it all, come and dig. John says I don't have a shovel. I say, well, John, get a job. He says you know what they want for the shovels. Let me give you both. books to start in my library 20 to 25 years old. my library is now worth many thousands of dollars but it started with two books mr shelf recommended them to me to help me get started shelf said

become

self taught he said standard education will give you standard results and you can check those numbers and see if that's what you want , but if you want to go further now you have to become self-taught, so he helped me get started with my library and said one of the ways is to build your library now.

I had a Bible that had 66 books, so it's a good deal, but this is what he recommended. He said number one: Get the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. If you don't already have it, the title should Intrigue: Think and Grow Rich I found that book in a second-hand bookstore. I paid 47 cents for it. I still have it. It is one of the rare hardcover covers. I read it several dozen times. Shelving taught me that repetition is the mother of skill. The ideas in that book helped change my life when I look back on it now.

The book was worth several hundred thousand dollars and I bought it for 47 cents. What a lesson. I learned the difference between cost and value before I met Mr. Shelf. to ask how much it costs after meeting Mr. shof. I asked him how much it is worth. I started basing my life on value instead of cost and everything changed, but that was book one. Think and become rich. The second book he recommended to me was the book on nutrition self said study nutrition I think the first book was by Adele Davis eat well to stay fit I think I have many now, but I think that was the first one on the shelf said study nutrition and there are all kinds of books on nutrition just read them all summer a little weird but read them well if you're weird do weird things I mean whatever but read them and then make your own decision remember not to read and become a follower read and become a student Make up your mind, find a plan that works well for you, but get the books on nutrition.

This is what Mr. Shelf told me. Vitality plays an important role in performing well. Vitality. He said some people don't do well because they don't sit down. Well, it's not that they're not smart, it's that they're sick, they don't have the enthusiasm and the fire and the vitality to do it right, so he scolded me about studying nutrition and said, Jim, you wouldn't believe it. he said I have a friend of mine who breeds racehorses the guy has nine books on how to feed horses he doesn't have a book on how to feed himself he said my friends study horse nutrition he studies vitamins minerals trace elements proteins amino acids carbohydrates fats enzymes proper balance for his horses shof said he's a fanatic and said you should see his horses they are magnificent, beautiful and powerful animals that can run like the wind and he said you should see it it's a disaster he said the guy feeds his horses better than he thought feeds himself, do you think in my later studies I discovered that some people feed their dogs better than their children?

If you both can believe that anyway, I didn't mean to give you a health tip, I'll let you listen tonight, okay, but hey. Take care of yourself, work on that part because it is one of the answers to do it well. There is even a biblical phrase that says many times the spirit is willing but the body is weak. Now it says that you are in trouble and that is a problem in which you wake up in the morning and The mind says let's go get them and the body says I can't even get out of bed so you have to work on both sides of this, okay but start your library, gather the books, books are the trademark. of civilization, it's fascinating to walk into someone's house and browse through their library because your library says something about you, so it's very important to organize your reading.