A conversational excerpt where Speaker A recounts advice learned from a janitor: reading an hour a day will set you apart. They describe a technique of taking notes while reading or listening, writing questions and sending letters to authors. Replies from authors lead to ongoing relationships—illustrating how reading plus active engagement builds valuable connections.
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I'm going to give you this thing that I learned from a janitor. I don't even know why I was listening to the janitor, but that's where I was in life. He said, if you read an hour a day, in six weeks, you'll separate yourself from everyone else. And I thought, well, I want to separate myself. I don't want to be poor. I don't want to stand in line for government cheese and be homeless. So I started reading an hour a day.
I did not like to read, but.
All of a sudden I was reading books that I.
Was like, wow, that's interesting. Is that true?
Again, I'm going to challenge it. So this is the technique that I learned. Not from the janitor. It's every time I read a book, I have a pad of.
Paper next to me.
Even if I'm listening to the book, I have a pad of.
Paper next to me. I write down questions back.
Then we wrote letters to the author.
I've got questions.
They would send answers back. I would make a.
Comment back.
Now, guess what we have. We have a relationship. We're communicating.