There is a popular saying that goes thus, “if you want to hide something from an African man, put in a book and he will not read it”.
One thing people fail to understand about reading books is that books can put hundred plates of food on your table. And if you give to food in the first place, you will end up at the toilet and your future will remain “foodless”. You will live in hunger because you failed to read books.
Food enhances biological and physical growth but it is not food that makes one great. Knowledge is the food of the mind.
Knowledge is power. Mental growth is unlimited. There are many who are matured physically but mentally premature. Lack of reading has made great number of people redundant in their own time and generation.
They are many men who are giants physically but dwarfs mentally; only few men live who are giant mentally regardless of their physical structure or circumstances.
I ask this same question in many places I have been invited to speak, mostly 95% of the crowd always go for food and I wondered why. I later realized that many people only cater for their stomach.
They are like Esau who sold his birth right at the altar of food.
They are only concerned about what to eat now. They don’t think of what to eat tomorrow.
Many people can spend thousands at fast foods, joints, bear parlours, hair making and something of less or no value but to buy a book and read is a difficult task.
Even though you give some people free books or buy books for them as a gift, they will not read them, because “what you don’t pay for you do not value”.
The level of the knowledge you acquired today determines the kind of food you place on your darlings` table tomorrow.
As the richest king that ever lived put it, “vanity upon vanity all is vanity”. All the items your money can buy can be destroyed in a day but the knowledge gained cannot be removed. It is permanent.
Prov 4:7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding.”
“Wisdom elevates, if you are full of wisdom, it will definitely promote you.
The lack of wisdom brings demotion to people’s life”. Tim Lahaye
Reading exposes you to first class information that will take you from where you are to where you need to be.
Reading arouses your passion and awakens the giant in you to do exploit.
Reading makes you to be creative and innovative;
it helps to discover ones purpose in life;
it makes you to discover the secrets of greatness;
it makes you to interact with superior minds;
it makes you to be self-reliant;
it keeps you growing; it makes you to be relevant;
it reveals your uniqueness;
it is an invaluable source for discovering your vision;
it lifts you beyond mediocrity;
it is an intellectual tonic for mental development and productivity.
People who increase their knowledge, their understanding and their skills, increase their value in the market place. They become successful and prosperous.
Books are often the most important source of that knowledge and skill.
What is your view?
This is crafted from my book, principles of financial freedom.
Get a copy of my book to be immerse with information to brake-forth from cobweb of mental dwarfness.
Joseph Olaomo is a Transformation Coach, Inspiring speaker, Author, and Entrepreneur
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