Why Great Leaders Are Devoted Readers
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
I wanted to share with you 3 reasons why great leaders - the one's I've worked with, you know, many of the fortune 500 CEO's, billionaires, titans of industry, why great leaders really are devoted readers:
- Reading a book is nothing more than having a conversation with the author;
- Reading collapses the timeline;
- Reading sustains hope;
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| 0:00.0 | It's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy, and welcome |
| 0:07.6 | to this mastery session. |
| 0:09.3 | This mastery session is called Why Great Leaders are Devoted Readers. |
| 0:15.0 | One of the great blessings of my life has been to have amazing parents |
| 0:20.0 | and my mother is absolutely awesome. |
| 0:24.0 | She was a teacher and my father has had a great influence on my life as well. |
| 0:29.0 | And for 52 years he was a family doctor. |
| 0:33.6 | And as I was growing up, my father always would buy us books. |
| 0:38.7 | And I believe a home filled with books |
| 0:41.6 | is a beautiful home. |
| 0:43.0 | And even to this day, I am always downloading books. |
| 0:47.0 | I am always reading books. |
| 0:49.0 | My home is full of books and with my loved ones we spent a lot of time reading together. |
| 0:54.9 | When I was raising my kids when they were younger, we would do reading nights and when we |
| 0:59.8 | would do family outings a lot of times we would actually go to the bookstore and we would |
| 1:03.5 | leave with you know these arm loads of books back when those terrestrial books |
| 1:08.8 | were even more popular than they now are and I see a world right now where we love the quick fix, where we love |
| 1:15.6 | quick videos, where we love instant bites of information, but yet there's great value in the devotion of taking a 200 page book and reading it. |
| 1:28.0 | It builds rigor, it builds focus, and it builds depth. You know, I mean there's something about the process of going |
| 1:36.2 | through a 200 page book in terms of the depth of insight it gives you, the ability to go |
| 1:42.4 | deep in a world where we want a 10 second video to |
| 1:46.4 | fuel our quick hit. |
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