Reading books

Don’t Read 

不读书 

Financially successful people are found trying to constantly improve themselves and one of the biggest ways a person can do this is by reading. 

人们发现富人总是在不断地提高自己，而读书就是提升自我的最好方法之一。 

Surveys of the rich vs. poor have shown a dramatic difference in their reading habits. Whereas the poor spend more time in aforementioned escapist hobbies such as television, the rich devour books by the truckload. Take for instance Warren Buffett who will spend up to 80% of his day reading and Bill Gates who makes a point to read at least fifty books a year. Though these two extreme examples might have a little more time now that they have already achieved such resounding success and no longer have to do hard labor, they probably developed these habits before success and there is still a lesson to be learned from them. 

对富人和穷人的调查显示出他们阅读习惯的巨大差异。穷人把更多的时间花在上述逃避现实的爱好上，如电视，而富人则如饥似渴地阅读海量书籍。举个例子，巴菲特每天把80%的时间用于读书，而比尔盖茨提出，每年至少要读50本书。尽管这是两个极端的例子，他们或许会有相对多一点时间，因为他们现在已经取得了如此巨大的成功，而且无需再干体力活，但在成功之前，他们可能就已经养成这个习惯了，所以我们仍要向他们学习。 

Reading can help to focus your mind, upgrade communication skills and help you to learn from the mistakes of others whether fictional or non. Two of the most popular types of books that are read by rich people are biographies and self-help books. Reading biographies is way to live vicariously through another, help to deal with one’s tribulations by learning how they did, or where they failed. Self-help books are just another testament to how successful people are constantly looking inward and trying to improve themselves instead of being satisfied with their current status. 

阅读可以帮助大家集中精力，提升沟通技巧，并且不管故事是否是虚构的，我们都能从他人所犯的错误中吸取教训。富人最爱读的两种类型的书分别是名人传记和励志书籍。阅读名人传记可以让我们体会他的人生百味，吸取他的成功经验或失败教训，这对我们自己应对艰难处境将大有好处。励志书籍则是成功人士持续反省自身，不满足于现状并努力提升自己的另一个明证。

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