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I am a big fan of books but that wasn't the case all the time.
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Especially when I was a little kid.
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I hated books more than anything else.
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Because books reminded me of school and I was horrible at my school.
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I didn't see the point of learning most of the things that they would teach us back in
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school so I didn't care much about it and that's why my grades were absolutely horrible.
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As a little kid in school, your grades really matter.
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if you get good grades, that means you are smart and everyone gonna like you.
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And vice versa of course.
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And I was on the other side.
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Back then I haven't read a single book outside my school books.
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So I have had this perception that all books are useless and boring like the ones in my
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school.
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You can't really blame me because I was a little ignorant kid.
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My biggest problem at that time was my self-esteem.
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I didn't have a purpose or a goal to strive to.
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I was told that my goal should be getting better grades but since I didn't see the purpose
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of doing that.
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I kinda didn't really care.
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When you have a big family, it's great, but it has its nuances as well.
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Like Your parents would give more attention to your younger siblings because they are
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younger.
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And since you are the elder son, for some weird reason you should be able to figure
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out everything on your own.
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I don't really blame my parents for anything because they gave me everything they possibly
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could.
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but I needed a mentor to teach me most of the things that I didn't understand about
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life.
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Luckily I came across this book that's called, the 7 habits of highly effective people.
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I wasn't really excited about it because I believed that its probably another piece
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of garbage similar to my school books but for some weird reason I decided to give it
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a shot.
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I was confident that I will fall asleep after a few pages, but surprisingly it was way much
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more interesting than I expected.
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What I have realized after reading the first chapter of the book is, I didn't know how
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to live.
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just because you are alive, doesn't mean you know how to live and that's why a lot of kids
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and adults are anxious and depressed.
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Life works in a certain way and if you don't know how to deal with it, you will end up
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miserable.
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- I had this problem of focusing on the negative things and as a result of that, I complained
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about everything, which never solved anything.
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The moment I realized that I am reactive, and if I want to stop feeling miserable, I
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should start focusing only on the things that I can control and do my best to improve them.
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Thats when my whole perspective about life changed.
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That's when I got excited about self-improvement books.
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I sucked at a lot of things, my social skills were horrible, my self-esteem was below the
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ground, my mindset was a failure So I began working on improving them.
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I picked up a book and started learning and in a couple of months, I was crushing it,
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my life literally became thousands of times better.
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I have never loved life so much before!
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Life is great, it's beautiful.
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you can have so much fun every single day, every single moment if you just learn how
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to do that.
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You don't have to be super rich and make millions of dollars.
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or be famous or have a Bugatti. all that you need is the right mindset, the right way to
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approach life.
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after reading dozens of self-improvement books, you start coming across similar ideas, and
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at some point, it gets really boring.
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So, when it comes to self-improvement books, my advice to pick up the top 5 or 10 books
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and spend a few months with each of them until you get the best out of them.
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There is a big difference between reading a book, understanding the book and then implanting
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it in your life.
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And that's what you should strive to achieve.
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And if you don't know where to start, here are my top 5 favorite books.
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You will not regret reading them.
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So, good luck!