There are so many great business books that inspire, educate, and help create better entrepreneurs. By reading one of the best selling must read business books out there or on here you’ll learn countless lessons that’ll help you achieve more success. They’re all jam-packed with actionable advice.
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I disagree. 1; they won't help you learn any lessons at all. They might help you learn
about some lessons, but reading a book won't teach you anything in itself. Lessons come from experience, which in turn comes from implementation. For every 1000 people who buy or pick up a book, 200 might read it all the way to the end. Out of those 200, 30 to 50 might have the necessary intelligence, circumstances and serendipity in time to be able to to implement what they read about. 1 or 2 will actually do it. Out of a 1000.
So the idea that you can gain from reading any business book out there, is a bad one because the odds are seriously against you most of the time. This is not to say that books are bad or a waste of time, they are not. The problem lies in you the reader's incapacity for persistence, tenacity and implementation.
So be very careful what kind of books you put into your head, you will never get the hours you spend reading them back. I laugh with contempt at all these self proclaimed gurus and geniuses like Tai Lopez who claim to read 52 or 200 books every year and have mammoth libraries. They may well be speed reading this many books, but I assure you that unless they have an IQ north of 140 they aren't retaining much less implementing any of it at all.
The human animal is not an automaton or a python/php script that you can feed in data and expect changes in performance or output. Humans are by and large, animals of habit. That is why loserdom is so hard to cure.
But I digress. Point 2; we must have a different view on what constitutes 'actionable advice' then. Actionable advice to most people is a list of keywords, a list of leads, a piece of code, a loaded weapon if you will. Very few can turn abstract 'mindset' systems and ideas into real results, and for good reason. The mindset things are so vague and hazy, they don't always apply. A wise man chooses between real world options and consequences, a fool tries to apply man made principles and mindset things to situations that may not even need them to begin with.
tldr; be results oriented.
Addendum: the worst kinds of books are the billionaire biographies and advice from outliers of success. There is no fucking way they have anything useful to tell you unless your life's situation and headspace matches theirs during their journey, which is impossible.
