The Power of Reading Books!

You will only feel it when you start reading them regularly.

This post is inspired by a video on YouTube uploaded by relentless.com channel in late 2018 which made a huge impact in my life. The video is available at the end of this post.

I have been reading articles on websites and in newspapers occasionally since my early teenage years but it was in 2018 that I finally decided to take reading books seriously. And what a great decision that has been since.

Honestly speaking, I cannot remember any other great decision than this that I have taken in recent years. Well, Let me make a bigger statement than this; It is the best decision that I ever made in my whole life so far.

This video I mentioned earlier contains beautiful and inspiring quotes by many successful people who contributed part of their success to the power of reading books.

The one quote that really stood out and is still relevant to me even today is attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, he said the following inspiring words :

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect we should ask him what books he reads”.

This statement alone was enough to convince me to take a firm decision to start reading books that have since changed the course of my life forever.

Reading books is more powerful than I thought in the beginning especially when you start reading books written by great writers in the past and present.

Books such as The Alchemist, The Richest Man In Babylon, How to win friends and influence people, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Power of Habit, Think and Grow Rich, Man’s Search For Meaning, The Five Languages Of Love, Me Before You, ZERO to ONE and many more books to name a few.

Benefits of reading books

Books offer us many great benefits than most other forms of communication because they are the final finished products of the greatest human minds in well-crafted words that are put together which gives us meaningful and useful information in an easy, entertaining, and readable way.

Some of the benefits I can tell you from firsthand experience are as following :

Reading books makes you grow as a person.

Reading books helps you explore new ideas.

Reading books makes you travel the world without moving your feet.

Reading books makes you become more creative.

Reading books is the best way to invest your valuable time.

Reading books gives you many solutions to your present and past problems.

Reading books is healing in many ways.

Reading books turns you into a writer which is why I am able to write this post you are reading right now.

The power of well-written books

Some of the books I mentioned above were so incredibly powerful in such a way that it did not allow me to do anything else except kept on reading them for days until I finished the last page.

Some of them I have re-read multiple times because they inspired me a lot and reading them only once was not enough to satisfy my needs.

Some of them took me away to far places through my imagination where there was an adventure while I was laying down on my couch reading these masterpieces.

Some of them helped me to look at life from different angles and expand my view of the world.

Some of them taught me new concepts about many topics I knew differently such as money, love, and life.

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Final thoughts

Reading books is recommended literally by every successful person alive today or lived in the past. Genuinely if you also want to be among the successful ones, then reading books should be among your top priorities for you to be successful.

Two years after starting reading books seriously, I can re-assure you again that it was the best decision of my life so far.

So, my dear reader, If you decide to take reading books seriously from now onwards, trust me, you won’t regret it forever.

Reading books can change your life in so many different ways than you can imagine right now. It just needs you to be determined and willing to give it a chance.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies”

— George R.R. Martin

If reading dozens of books alone has changed me in the last two years, sometimes it fascinates me to think where I could be in ten or twenty or even thirty years from now when I have read hundreds or even thousands of books.

The potential of reading books is very huge and the sky is only going to be your limit.

I hope you enjoy the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpzpbGCvqY

Thank you for your precious time.