Why You Shouldn't Read Books | Ep. #691

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In episode #691, Eric and Neil Discuss why you shouldn’t just read books all day. Tune in to hear why you need to limit the time you spend absorbing information. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Why You Shouldn't Read Books [00:40] People spend so much time reading, that they end up taking little action. [00:55] If you don’t spend time implementing ideas within your business, this is problematic. [01:30] Someone wrote a post about when it’s time to learn and when it’s time to earn; it is important to delineate time for actionable ideas. [01:50] Experimentation is the ultimate teacher. [02:02] Make mistakes and learn from them. [02:15] Don’t read random books, read books that address your specific problems. [03:10] Make sure to take notes and take action on your ideas after reading. [03:35] Eric and Neil aren’t advocating ignorance, they’re saying limit your time absorbing information and spend more time enhancing your company. [04:26] That’s it for today! [04:31] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
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0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:55.0	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel, and today we're going to talk about why you shouldn't read books blasphemy,
1:00.0	right? Like for us that talk about the books that you should read and we have some
1:03.3	podcast episodes on that why should you not read books? We're not saying books are
1:08.8	bad. What we're saying is people spend so much time reading books.
1:14.7	They take very little action on their company.
1:17.9	I don't care how smart you are,
1:20.2	what you learn from these books.
1:21.5	If you spend four hours a day reading and you don't spend any time implementing within your business
1:26.6	You're not going to grow. I don't care how smart you are and Eric and I both have friends actually we have a lot of, who they read and there's nothing wrong with reading.
1:35.2	They're extremely smart, but they're poor executors because all they do is just read and learn.
1:40.2	Yeah, I mean, look, my dad told me this one quote once.
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