# Chapter 133

“There is one thing on which we are agreed: There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.” Setterfield

Reading has always been my one consistent superpower. Even before I started school in first grade, I could read. It was the primary focus of my mother’s attention toward me in my early years. Neither she nor my dad graduated from high school and they both felt the stinging results of that, as most good paying jobs required that high school diploma and neither had it. In my mother’s eye, reading was the key to education and of course education was the key to good jobs.

Even though the world we live in today is a very different world than the one my parents grew up in, this gift has served me well. It is also the reason why we don’t have a television, and don’t play the radio in the car and why playing games drives me nuts - there are too many books waiting to be read! In my world of living overseas these past 25 plus years and moving constantly, ebooks are my salvation, as we have lost or given our dead-tree library away three times now. We only have 40-50 of the most key books remaining in our physically library, while our digital libraries are vast and our wish lists long.

As my fellow change-the-world compatriot Bernie is fond of saying, you will be the same person you are today in five years, except for the people you meet and the books you read. Those are the external input factors you can accelerate and be purposeful about today.

Read more.

Read more widely,

Change a mind, change the world.