Reading for Gold

 “Buy the truth and sell it not”

 

A few days ago I spoke with one of my mentors about some goals I intended to achieve this year. I had the privilege of asking him what books he read that formed his values and business acumen. They said that if you want to hide something from a black man, hide it in a book. They went further to say, if you wanted to make sure he didn’t find it, buy the book and give it to him. He told me that it wasn’t necessarily the books you read that mattered but the treasures you might have dug up within the books. He summarized it as follows; if you must read a book:

 

• Make reading the book like a voyage. An adventure to seek out treasure.
• Go into the book with a purpose.
• Look for something definite in the book.
• It is not the books you read that matters; it is what you find in the books you read.
• When you find what you are looking for in a book, you should digest it until it becomes a part of you.
• What you become in life is a result of how much you have ingested and digested from reading, not what you have read.