An average person reads 1.5 books a year, only.

    CEOs averagely, on the other hand, finish over 50 books in a year. For example, Bill Gates.

    Obviously, we are not too busy to read, at least, not as busy as Bill Gates.

    The top leaders and the best minds can’t live without books, so

    how about you and me?

    We need books to grow, to advance and to become one of the best minds, one of the effective leaders.

    Books shape our perceptions, train our minds and reinvent our lives.

    Books make you a different person, a becoming person.

    Books take you places, places of your dream.

    Books bring you joy, Books give you tools and books set your path straight.

    Open Ann in the Green Gables, life smells like rose petals dappling the crystal clear creek.

    Her spirit and her love for nature springs life in your heart, splashes beauty in the eyes of your mind.

    Open the Secret Garden, there is nothing you can’t conquer with a positive faith and a passion for living things.

    Open Rewark, Make time, top engineers and designers put solid tools in your hands, to lay hold of your wheel of time and wheel of creativity.

    Open Educated, the Memoir, may what education through books can do open a whole new world to you. With your eyes open ,your heart gets filled with force to break through soil, to grow into a garden, and becomes a better, bigger and prettier world itself.

    Join us, read with us, remake your mind starting today, reinvent yourself starting now.

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    有人在刷抖音，有人在看b站，有人在玩微博，有人在逛油管…
    有人，安静读书。
    读书的人，和苏格拉底辩论正义，和简奥斯汀谈论美丽，与比尔盖茨切磋技艺，和古今中外作者随时开跨时间的会议。
    读书的人，让人可气。
    我害怕和他们谈话，一跟他们谈话，我就像一个透明的人，苍白的脑袋无法言语。
    他们是懂得美学的罗素，懂得孙子兵法的甘地，一本本书，就像脊柱骨，支撑着他们的勇气；
    他们随时可以指出我的自我疏离，但是他们连打败我的意愿都不具备，只是劝我进步努力。
    我害怕阅读的人，尤其是，还在阅读的人。
    当我知道，世界上的人对阅读却敷衍得可怕，他们平均一年才阅读1.5本书，想到这里，我长舒了一口气。
    不妨从现在就开始阅读。
    如果你要和我一起，我推荐3本书给你。
    Number One —— Bad Blood
    Number Two —— The Habits
    Number Three —— Emma

    Some swipe away on Tik Tok

    Some binge watch Bilibili clips

    Some eat on Weibo posts

    Some wade in youtube

    and some are reading quietly.

    People who read, debate over justice with Socrates, talk about elegance with Jane Austin, jam music with Bill Gates, and fly past oceans of time to brainstorm with authors all over the world.

    People who read, are in sufferable because,

    I resent talking to them for it makes me a see-through vessel,

    brings to light whatever emptiness in my head

    I fear them,

    for they are like a Betrand Russel who also knows theology

    they are like a Gandi who’s studied the Art of War

    Books stand them up like backbones,

    Book beef them up like muscles

    Books hand them a telescope to probe into humanity’s detachment,

    yet Books give them a heart too big to claim wars on individuals

    Books fill their eyes with light I aspire to emulate,

    So they intimidate me, the well-read, and especially, those who still read.

    But I am relieved to find out, people in this world read only 1.5 books a year on average.

    So it is not so hard to catch up. It is not so hard to get ahead even.

    Care to join me? Let’s start with three books:

    Number One —— Bad Blood
    Number Two —— The Power of Habits
    Number Three —— Emma