Why I Don’t Read Books

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correctly, right, so I guess my next question would be because I say you read a lot of books. And so how do you learn effectively? You know the fastest way to get the best information in a short period of time. I don't read books, I use books and that's a big distinction. When I read a book, my idea is not to try to understand everything the author says.

I'm not trying to understand all the background to it because the purpose of learning is mastery, it's all about implementation, so some examples are given. You are an example, sometimes if I am reading a book it is not like everything you know, I know there are people talking about it, I read a book a day, I read a book a week or whatever, I read between two and three books a week. constantly learning podcasts or different shows or different things or talking to consultants, that's how I learned the most, but when it comes to reading, sometimes I read a book, if I'm looking for some book that I read, I have a simple question that I want to answer.

Through what are the three ideas that I can get from a book that I can implement right now, just one set, not 10, not 20, not 103 ideas. If I could get those three ideas from the first three chapters, I'll highlight them and take them. I'll put the book away, put it back on the shelf, maybe later I'll go back there and read the rest of the book and implement some of the other ideas, but if I have my big three, that's all I want to say sometimes. You would get those ideas at the end of each chapter where they talk about action steps and summaries and resources, that's awesome.

Sometimes I had the idea only from that table of contents, if they broke my table, I read the contents of the table which gave me enough. or three ideas I saved and then I just implemented them, so I don't read books, it's not about accumulation. I think there is a big distinction here. I want you to get one of the most powerful tools when the ship has the most powerful mindset you need to have. in business life it is clarity and clarity is power clarity is power and what is power power is the ability to act, so if the more you read, the more confused you feel, it gives you less clarity, it means it takes away from you. power If reading more gives you more clarity and gives you more ability to act, that's good, that's powerful, true, you're on the right path, then there's a big difference between information and knowledge and knowledge and wisdom, let me explain to you, this wood It gives you a lot of clarity.

They are just facts data numbers figures theories principles that is just information there is a lot of information on the Internet there is a lot of information on YouTube there is a lot of information on Google there is a lot of information but the information itself does not help you it does not make you richer it does not make you happier it does not make you happier makes you healthier it doesn't make you smarter information is just information it's like you need to go to school right you're reading you go to class you your textbook there's a lot of information In the textbook, that's the first stage, once that you gather enough information, now you are accumulating what I call knowledge, so you get a lot of information and now you learn about the distinctions.

Now you take that information, you apply it or I take that information and you. you take a test which is knowledge after the test you know after the exam at school oh that works so oh no that was the wrong answer or I didn't pass the exam or here are the mistakes I made wrong well you You're learning from it, that It is to accumulate knowledge, which is why many people read books to acquire information. You want a lot of information and you wonder how come I'm watching so many videos. I am learning, but my life is the same because you have not converted information into knowledge and from knowledge into experience now, how to convert knowledge into experience, so now you know, acquire some knowledge that you have to implement and the only way you get experience and improvements a lot is what you do. the mistakes you see if this works now you are gaining experience you are seeing a pattern of things that goes back to the school example now you take enough tests you remember the class you take as great 9 10 11 12 right now you are taking tests studying the same subject for many years in a row now you see a pattern okay, I'm accumulating more things.

I am gaining more experience of what works and what doesn't, now I experience that is much more valuable, it is more valuable in knowledge and knowledge is more information available, so books themselves are just information information does not change your life information does not change your life you have to convert it by gathering a filter into knowledge of knowledge now you implement it now you move on to the next step which is experience after experience from now on you have done it for long enough, a long period of time now it evolves towards your wisdom and that's a big difference between information or even knowledge versus knowledge versus wisdom.

I don't think it's a people even talk to most people. I don't think he's a super smart guy. I don't think they would describe me as a smart guy. They do describe me more as a wise man. I am wise because I have done a lot of things, a lot of experience, right, and that is great, many people are smart but not wise, wisdom is something completely different, okay, wisdom is knowing what not to do, wisdom is knowing when You don't have to do something like that. Let's say you have enough experience, you know how I'm going to make this work, these are 20 things I could do, my experience tells me these are the 20 things I could do to be successful, wisdom is knowing, okay, 19 clues is just do this, that's the difference knowledge is about accumulation wisdom is about elimination sleep on that wisdom is about elimination it's about simplicity it's about not it's about daily increase it's about daily decrease but no you can get wisdom without knowledge you can't get wisdom without experience you have to go through all that now you can simplify everything you do and there are only a few things you need to do to get the results you don't need to do a hundred things you can do a couple of things and you do it well and that is wisdom and most people are intelligent but they are not wise and you can tell that they are, you can tell by the way they share, the way they communicate, there is not much depth. where they speak from the places they speak from lacks much depth, but when you talk to a wise man you see, wow, that makes a lot of sense, whatever he's talking about, it makes a lot of sense the depth behind those words. that's wisdom, that's what I'm talking about, so I don't read books, I use books, it's about taking ideas, marking information converted into knowledge and as soon as I think I convert your knowledge, I wanted to turn it into an experience and then I want to filter through my years of experience and then condense it into the wisdom that I have, that what works for me, what works for me, may not work for you, my wisdom is different than yours, but this is what works for me, so that there are many stages to learning that it is not. a lot about what books you're reading or what's the best way to learn or all these things that you see, it's a very superficial question, you need to go deeper than them, you need to go deeper than that, you need to go beyond that and just look. videos are now taking the information when I'm teaching you how to implement it go out there in a real row apply this and see what works what works for you what doesn't work for you you have to go you can you can read about how to swim until you're in the pool until you swim, you learn and now you can win many laps and then swim in the lake, that is the experience now, when you have wisdom, you go to sleep and swimming is swimming. the ocean, but you also know it's better not to go to the dead zone, there are sharks there, right, that's wisdom, so comment below how you're going to change the way you learn, how you're going to change the way you read books, how are you going to change the way you not only learn? a collection of more information but an accumulation of true knowledge, true experience and eventually wisdom, don't forget to subscribe, press the subscribe button and activate the bell from time to time if you want to be wiser, not only modern but wiser, see these videos right here, here and if you ask me a geeky question on your way to work I'm going to answer it right here on my boss new baby series like that and what a beautiful day until next time I'll see you my damage