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There is no substitute for reading. Not books on tape. Not podcasts. Not talking to people. Not movies. Reading is far more important than the vast majority of people realize. Here’s why:
More education leads to more wealth, longer life, and better health. While we explored some of the reasons for those positive effects of education in “Is All Education Meaningful?” and why education leads to better lives, there is a recent, fascinating study that sheds additional light on causal reasons why
Some of the purest joy I experience is not just when helping someone but when helping them in a way that I was not helped. I think everyone with children experiences this joy: there are ways that you provide for your children that you were not provided for, and —
Success is much more easily achieved with the right tools. If you set your mind to it, you will be able to drive a nail into a block of wood without a hammer (you’ll get a rock, a crowbar, etc), but it will be immensely easier and faster to use
“Youth is wasted on the young.” So true. If we had the wisdom of our past mistakes in advance of making them, we would be less likely to have made those mistakes in the first place when we were younger. But, while we cannot personally go back in time and