Before Amazon.com there was ABC books. This is the bookstore I frequented in college. Prior to my senior year of college I’d probably read a dozen books that were NOT assigned by a class. And most of them were sports biographies with lots of pictures and stats! But I got bitten by the reading bug my senior year. Read an 800 page biography of Albert Einstein and a Dale Carnegie classic titled How to Win Friends and Influence People. Those two books were intellectual catalysts in my life. I feel in love with books. After college I read about 150-200 books per year.

By the way, here is my philosophy of reading. I once heard that the average author takes about two years to write a book. So I felt like each book I read was like getting two years of life experience. So when I read 150 books in a year I gain 300 years of life experience.

By the way, I don’t read anywhere near that volume of books now. I’m closer to 50-75 books per year. The more I write the less time I seem to have to read.