Hundreds of years old home is nothing more than virtue. The first good thing is to read.
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Editor’s note: For five thousand years, human beings have been solving a problem similar to the one you may currently face-and write it down so that you have an object you can refer to and learn from. Reading is the best choice and the fastest way for leaders to improve when facing difficulties. This article is translated from medium, the author of the article Ryan Holiday, the original title of The Greatest Shortcut for Leaders Is Reading Books.
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Harry Truman once said that not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader, it must be so.
Being a leader means you will encounter situations you have never experienced before. You will face many problems that cannot be solved by simple methods. But the good news is that no matter how challenging you are, no matter how unique or modern these are, you are not the first to encounter it. For about 5,000 years, humans have been experiencing, solving, and—most importantly—writing books on these difficulties and challenges.
Think of Truman. After his unexpected death, his predecessor Roosevelt, in April 1945, he reached the presidency. Within a few months, he found himself at the dawn of the Atomic Age and the eve of the new Cold War. These are very new questions, but Truman—who has developed reading habits since he was a child—has chosen to learn from history.
“We have about three or four thousand books, including encyclopedias, in independent public libraries,” he once wrote, “Believe it or not, I read them all … maybe I’m a fucking fool But when I face a terrible situation, it helps me. “
General James Mattis is also an avid reading enthusiast. Even when he travels to the distant Marine Corps Command, he carries a book with him. Recently he wrote that it is very opinionable for a military leader to learn through trial and error Unreasonable things. He said he