This fishing, it's in my soul.

Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast.

Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it.

Prepare to laugh.

Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

Here's your host, Joe Simons, Like Diamonds.

For many years, I decided not to read.

And it wasn't because I didn't like reading or didn't believe that it had some merit to it or might help me out.

I got busy with my 20s and it wasn't cool to read.

It was a whole lot cooler to go chase girls and have fun and party with my friends on the weekend as I was learning what real life was all about.

And it's got a little bit older and especially once I got married and had kids, I really started reading a lot.

And in fact, a lot of you know my story.

You know the book Fishing for Happiness was based on about 300 books that I read and around a five year period of time.

So you can do the math.

It's essentially at least a book a week, which is not easy to do.

It meant giving up a lot of going out to the bars.

It meant giving up a football on Sundays.

It meant giving up a lot to read that.

And I did it for a couple of reasons.

One, I became addictive just like anything that you do that you're getting some value and joy from.

And two, I got a lot of joy and value from it because I was reading so many of these self-help books and personal development books and learning so much about myself and about my mind.

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