“Have you heard of entrepreneurial ADD? I think it's really an excuse, where you can't tie yourself down for too long? I have that. So when I get into something, I read it up to the point where I find something that I have to do or want to do, and I stop reading it right there, bookmark it, and then I go try it.” – Jonathan Rivera
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Numbers never Lie:
According to the booksellers association 80% of Americans did not buy or read a book last year.
58% of American adults never read a book after high school
Main Topic:
Knowledge alone is NOT power
Three tips:
1. You have to Read more books.
2. You have to Implement more of what you read or it won’t stick.
3. Even if things don’t work – keep learning – keep innovating.
Here are the last 5 books each of us has read:
Darin:
1. Divergent
2. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
3. How to be Invisible
4. George Washington’s Secret Six
5. 11/22/63
Jonathan:
1. My Life in Advertising
2. 8 minute meditation
3. Nickel and Dimed
4. The Secret of Selling Anything
5. Monster in the mist
Links and other stuff mentioned in this show:
1. “Shut up Stop Whining and get a life” http://goo.gl/G0ZxJn
2. The only thing your real estate clients want from you Think Results
