how does the reading make you discipline
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Some things in life are optional, and some things in life are mandatory. Taking your next vacation to the Caribbean is optional. Building a personal library and becoming an avid reader is mandatory. It is no longer something you can choose to do. It is absolutely essential and indispensable for your success.
Some years ago, a young man came to me and asked for advice. Though he had managed to graduate from high school, he could barely read. Meanwhile, he was working at a dead-end job at minimum wage, and he had been there for two years. He was living in a small apartment on a limited budget. His friends from high school were in pretty much the same predicament. They all were working at low-level, low-skill jobs with no future.
He said he wanted to be successful at something that didn’t require reading. I told him that this was not a matter of choice. I told him that he had to learn to read, and read well. The only jobs that wouldn’t require him to read were the kinds of jobs he and his friends were already doing. And even those jobs soon would be done by younger, more eager people with better educations.
Much to his credit, he thought about what I said, and finally accepted the fact that he had to become a good reader. He began taking community-college courses in remedial reading. Eventually, he applied for entrance to a technical institute, and he got in by the skin of his teeth. Because of his poor high-school education, it took him almost three years to complete a two-year program in biomedical engineering. He stuck in there and worked hard, and finally got the degree.
A small company hired him as a sales representative, to call on hospitals and clinics in a rural territory. It wasn’t much, but he took it and ran with it. He continued to read, studying sales and communications on his own. He started that sales job at $22,000 per year, and within two years he was up to $30,000. In his third year, he was hired away by a rival company and paid $40,000 per year. Two years later, an international company heard about his success in the marketplace and hired him at more than $50,000 per year, with a company car, an expense account, and substantial benefits