Don’t start what you cannot finish.
You probably know every year, Bill Gates — co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest persons on this planet — reads around fifty books and then recommends a few of them for book-lovers like you.
But how much do you know about his reading habits? I hope, not much.
Bill Gates is a life-long learner who thinks that reading is absolutely essential to success. He reads a lot — almost one book per week, fifty books a year. But why does he read so many books despite having a tremendously busy and successful life? What’s the actual reason?
Gates answered this question in an interview with Time Magazine in 2017. He said, “You don’t really start getting old until you stop learning. Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently. I was lucky to have parents who encouraged me to read. Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and in the work that I do now with my foundation.”
But Gates is quite old-fashioned when it comes to reading books. That means he prefers paper books to eBooks. And when he goes on a vacation, he always carries a big canvas tote-bag full of books. Isn’t it a little…
