Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel: “The Person Who Won’t Read isn’t Any Better Off Than The Person Who Can’t Read.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a wonderful expression that says, |
| 0:03.0 | the person who won't read is many better off |
| 0:10.0 | and the person who the day show. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm your host, Sean Croxton, at Sean Croxton. |
| 0:32.2 | We got a brand new speaker on the show today. |
| 0:34.8 | Her name is Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel. She's going to share a story |
| 0:39.3 | of how going the extra mile can open up the door to opportunity. She's also going to talk about |
| 0:47.2 | the benefits of being a lifelong learner. Dr. Sheethe Murray Bethel is coming up. |
| 0:56.0 | How many of you have ever ridden with what I would call a professional taxi cab driver? |
| 1:02.3 | Have you? |
| 1:03.5 | I'll tell you, in my city where I live, San Francisco, everything is built up. |
| 1:07.6 | As you probably know, there's no real estate, nothing is built out. |
| 1:10.4 | It's built up. And our front door is built up. As you probably know, there's no real estate. Nothing is built out. It's built up. |
| 1:11.5 | And our front door is 56 steps from the street. |
| 1:17.0 | The bad news is when I call a taxi cab driver to take me out to the airport to go off and speak or whatever, |
| 1:23.4 | they drive up, they see those steps. |
| 1:25.9 | They're not coming up, those 56 steps. |
| 1:28.3 | They pull up in the driveway downstairs and they just honk the horn. |
| 1:33.3 | And I have to drag my bags down. |
| 1:35.3 | I got up early one morning I was going across the country, early flight. |
| 1:38.3 | I called and they said, well, cab will be there in a few minutes. |
| 1:42.3 | It wasn't just a few minutes. |
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