[00:00:01] What is going on? So, hey, welcome back. I'm so glad to have you here today. I really want to talk about the importance of thinking and reading. All right. For yourself. [00:00:12] For yourself. If you love yourself, you truly love yourself, then you should always be growing, always want to educate yourself to the highest level. And the reason why I'm saying that is because a lot of people take a little concept, have a. Have a minor understanding of something, and then they twist it and form it to fit their reality, right? But I want you instead to become an expert. [00:00:36] And an expert is just someone that is just. That is, that has read just above the average person. And to be, and to be average is not hard. If you read just one book, you're over 90, 97% of people. Now, I think, I believe it's. I think the quote is, 97 or 90% of people don't ever pick up a book after college. [00:00:55] 90%, that means you're in the top 10% by just reading one book in a year. [00:01:01] That's not hard. If you read two, my God, how far ahead of you, of other people? If you read just five pages a day, you are light years ahead of other people. Now, if you read, if you read books and you even write a book, you're. You're. You're in the top 1%. And then after that, if you're able to formulate your own thoughts and share it, whether it's written word, whether it's in video, or whether it's in audio, my God, you're in the 0.01% after that. And I'm not even talking financial here. I'm just talking by educating yourself, formulating your own thoughts and then posting it right as content, and then being able to handle the criticism of this world. Because most people, what they do, they sit back, they wait for everybody else. Fox News, cnbc, BBC, or they wait for the TV that, that television box to tell them what to think, what to believe, and they regurgitate everybody else's ideas and philosophies, right? But you, the uncommon man, being able to read and write for yourself, readable to study, even using AI or even using the power of Google and your smartphone to become smarter. [00:02:11] I applaud you because that's what I want you to do. [00:02:14] I want you to be able to think for yourself. So that way, when somebody poses a question, that sounds smart, because it's easy to sound smart by putting the right words together, right? But when you're, when you're well read and well studied, all all, all the facade of words, they mean nothing, right? For example, I can say all the, all the, like the word facade, right? It's smoke and mirrors, right? It's someone pretending or sounding smart. [00:02:45] Facade sounds like an amazing word, but it's not. It's just a smoke and mirrors, right? But if you're not well read and real study, then you don't understand that. You don't see that. You understand context clues. You can't think for yourself. You're waiting for somebody else to tell you how to think. [00:03:01] So that's why I want to implore you today, you. [00:03:04] Right? [00:03:05] Read five pages of, read five pages a day of something. [00:03:09] If I don't care if it's a newspaper, I don't care if it's a dictionary, right? That is going to make you be able to formulate your own thoughts. That's going to bring new, fresh ideas in you, right? And don't pick the same garbage books, okay? I don't say they're garbage, but thinking grow rich, rich dad, poor dad. Expand your palette. Go into other areas, right? If you're a Christian, read the Quran. If you're a Muslim, read, read the Bible, right? Understand what other religions believe and think. So that way you can defend your position or, and you can solidify why you actually believe what you believe. [00:03:46] Because the best success of converting somebody, this is kind of off topic here but the best way of converting people to your religion or to is to have a better understanding of what somebody else believes and to study what they believe. So that way you are able to see where your, your beliefs and their beliefs align and, and where there's a difference. [00:04:07] I believe the Nation of Islam does a great job. I just read, I just read Brother Nouri, Muhammad's book on how to love a black woman. And he describes and talks about and references the Bible and then he also references the Quran and also references other holy texts which I think it's astounding. And I, and I, and I applaud him and I give him his flowers because most people read their own thing, read their own religion and find this echo chamber in their own box. But I want, I don't want you to do that. I want you to be well read and studied and learn everything, right? Study everything so that way you have a better understanding of the world and how other people see it. [00:04:47] So that way you can formulate your own thoughts and you can have even better conversations and ask better questions to get better answers and to get more data and better results out of people. Around you as well. [00:04:57] So my main point for today is I want you to read. I want you to study five pages a day. [00:05:02] And I want you to also go out there and learn things from other people that may not think the same thing as you. All right? Love you. Hope you have a great day. Peace.