Around 42% of college students in America will never read another book after graduation. Compare these students with Todd Combs one of the money managers at Berkshire Hathaway. He spends most of his time reading and thinking. In one interview he said that he reads 500+ pages of annual reports every week.
What drives Todd Combs to read so much when many of us spend a lot time on unproductive things like watching television? The simple answer to this question is his habit. Our brain is an energy-guzzler. In order to conserve energy it makes repeated activites as second nature by rewiring itself in a certain way.This happens for both reading and watching television. These repeated activites are habits and they emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Once habits are are formed they are encoded in our brain forever. This is the reason why we need to acquire…
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