Quote: (10-29-2018 02:17 PM)El Padrone Wrote:
Reading. Im always shocked at the near total lack of interest most people I meet have in it. An elder colleague could simply not grasp what I was doing reading 50 Cent's The 50th Law. Sad.
I would argue this is is most people actually. I don't how book stores stay open to be honest. Even more perplexing (considering its 99% free) is the lack of interest in anything on the internet outside Facebook and one or two other sites is bizarre. And these are smart people! When I was a kid I read the newspaper constantly back to back just for curiosity!
I was always liked the way Owen Cook (Tyler of RSD) put it years ago:
"Wealthy productive, successful people decided to put millions of dollars of information in a 10 dollar softcover book and then went through line by line with PROFESSIONAL EDITORS and you're not going to read it? Their distilled life and advice, presented to you for a pifling fee so you don't have to repeat the mistakes they did and you won't read it?"
The drole and hilarious Jim Rohn puts it well, this applies to so much of life, timeless:
I like collecting razors and brushes, Edwin Jagger, Gilette Fatboys and Slims, Merkur 34HD...they last lifetimes, and I do cold shaving because I have sensitive Irish skin to the elements, cold water soothes and allows me to shave every damn day at the same time and I enjoy the hell out of it so much. Its like meditation, and great chasing the rabbit game to get it all the hairs whittled down to the skin. I'm a simple man really. Cold shower followed by cold shaves in the dead quiet of the dark morning at 5am and you're set to battle the day.