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88% of Financially Successful People Read at Least 30 Minutes a Day
To read more books, focus on making it a daily habit first
Have you ever wondered why some people are more successful than others?
What do they have that you don’t?
A greater percentage of self-made millionaires read a lot.
Many successful people tend to read a lot of books.
They are serious about making and keeping money, so they read great and influential books to improve their chances of accelerating success.
Reading can make us wealthy, more intelligent, more productive, and give us a better understanding of the world around us.
Reading every day is a superpower.
If you are serious about building wealth, make reading a required daily habit.
“Read what you like until you like to read,” says Naval Ravikant.
Reading is a great way to learn about new things and gain different or fresh perspectives.
In a five years study about the daily habits of self-made millionaires, Tom Corley, the author of Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, found that reading was a significant factor in their success.
“Corley wrote that 88% of rich people “devote thirty minutes or more each day to self-education or self-improvement reading” and that “most did not read for entertainment,” writes Tanza Loudenback of Business Insider.
Here’s the important detail: Many successful people don’t read for entertainment; they read to acquire better knowledge to make informed and intelligent decisions.
They focus on biographies, self/career improvement books packed with principles, lessons, mistakes, observations, successes and experiences, industry-related books, building wealth books and history books that changed economies.
“The rich are voracious readers on how to improve themselves. They’re reading self-improvement books, biographies, books about successful…
