The Greatest Shortcut for Leaders Is Reading Books

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  • Author: Ryan Holiday
  • Full Title: The Greatest Shortcut for Leaders Is Reading Books

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The good news is that no matter what challenge you’re facing, no matter how unique or how modern, you’re far from the first to encounter it. For roughly 5,000 years, human beings have been experiencing, solving, and, most importantly, writing books about these exact struggles. (View Highlight)

You aren’t the first person to face this challenge


But reading is also a shortcut. A way to get where you want to get without having to learn by painful trial and error. As leaders, what we’re reading is leading us — and saving us. (View Highlight)

Reading saves you from learning exclusively through trial and error Reading is a shortcut