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Can ‘Reading like Bill Gates’ make you the next Bill Gates??

Reading a book will open a door of opportunity in front of you...
Here is a list of five sets containing five books in each set. Those books have been suggested by five different successful persons in the world:

Elon Musk

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy
3. Structures
4. Super Intelligence
5. Screw Business As Usual

Bill Gates

1. The Choice
2. Cloud Atlas
3. The Ride of a Lifetime
4. The Great Influenza
5. Good Economics for Hard Times

Warren Buffet

1. The Intelligent Investor
2. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
3. The Outsiders
4. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
5. Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?

Mark Zuckerberg

1. The Muqaddimah
2. Sapiens
3. The Better Angels of Our Nature
4. On Immunity
5. The End of Power

Dr. Mohammad Yousuf

1. Creating a World Without Poverty 
2. Banker to the Poor 
3. Germinal 
4. A Tale of Two Cities 
5. An Anthology by Rabindranath Tagore 

Can you see a pattern here?

No, you can’t!

In fact, there is no pattern! You can’t blindly follow someone’s book list and wish to become successful like her. You can at best try to understand that person’s thought process by reading his suggested books.

The only pattern you will find is, all successful people are avid readers. They read books, and there are zillions of books that you can’t even read their titles in your lifetime. There is no exact booklist for everybody. You can’t expect to start SpaceX by reading Russian Rocket Manual. Or perhaps you can, but then you need to have the other personality traits of Elon Musk more than his reading habits. Or maybe, you possess something extraordinary beyond our present perception. Whatever the case is, don’t think you have to read every book listed by the successful person. That is not required to be successful.

If it were, then Mark Zuckerberg’s booklist would have emulated Warren Buffet’s!

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