Billionaire Warren Buffett is the CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, a multinational conglomerate holding company. Berkshire Hathaway owns household name companies like GEICO, Duracell, and Dairy Queen. Buffett got his start early at the age of nineteen when he started to read business and books on invesyment. Clearly, they helped him get to where […]
Let’s keep this brief. Today society whizzes past us at warp speed! There are so many things to distract us, that it is now changing certain behaviors. You’re watching a YouTube video when a five-second commercial airs and it seems like it takes forever to get back to what you were watching. Or a web […]
It’s no secret that those in medical school do a lot of reading. Students have to study biology, anatomy, and everything else under the sun that those in the medical field need to know. Additionally, students have to find some time to read for the sake of reading, which can be tough, but doable when […]
If you ask what the most prosperous professionals in the world attribute their success to, you’ll hear the same answer. Reading. Sounds easy enough, but when you look at your day, it’s hard to imagine getting a lot of reading done. Between rushing around from meeting to meeting, brainstorming with colleagues, and doing the day-to-day […]
Ever have one of these nights? 7:00 P.M. Alright! Can’t wait to start the new book I picked up today. 8:00 P.M. I love the writing style and story, one more chapter to see where the author is heading. 9:00 P.M. What!? I didn’t see that coming! How is this going to get resolved? 12:00 […]
If the average person reads 250 words per minute, it would take about 1 hour to read a 12,000-word classic like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. Also, it would take 72 hours to read the entire Harry Potter series, which has a word count of 1,073,288 words. Authors have thrilled us with […]
