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Reading books is decreasing, especially among younger people. TV, video, video games, music is taking over. People don’t think they have time or just don’t appreciate reading as much as TV. This is sad for a number of reasons. Not just sad but also bad, for themselves and for the society. Why is that? Why do you need to read more books?

Reading books will get you many personal advantages. Like how to express yourself, both in writing and orally. By watching TV you won’t get the same deep knowledge of language, of how to develop orally.

What I am trying to say here is that the best way I’ve found to develop my skills in another language is to read. I learn most from books. Second is Internet. Internet is a fantastic place. But it also contains a lot of misspelling and language shortcuts. Sure, many books do that too, but over all there are more thoughts behind books which leads me to the next subject, work.

There are usually more work and thoughts behind books. You can’t write a post like I do know and publish it in a book without someone reading it first and checking it for misspellings and contributions to the subject. My experience is that you simply get more content in books. The trust factor is simply higher.

In books you don’t get irritating ads or links all over the place either. Books are often neutral and friendly to look at and read. Websites can be pink with red text with irritating flash ads. You get the picture. To really learn something or develop what you already know you need to be focused. It is much easier to focus while reading books than it is reading on the Internet.

You can bring books anywhere. Sure, many people have laptops today but many can’t bring their computers anywhere. With books that’s no problem. And even if you have a laptop you have to have electricity and Internet, if you haven’t downloaded what you want to read. And books are much smaller.

It is also relaxing to read books. No distractions. And again, better focusing than Internet. I love Internet, it’s not that, with information everywhere and links relating to what you read and so on. But I certainly believe in being focused on what you read to fully understand it. And I also believe this is harder to do on a website with links and ads disturbing you. TV has some great documentaries sometimes but you can’t decide what you want to see right now. You have to wait for when the documentary you want to see is shown. The availability isn’t the same. And ads a probably disturbing you here too. Books are better for this. When you feel like reading on a subject you just get the book and are able to focus solely on its contents without anything else disturbing your eyes.

Books are cheap. Yeah, it’s certainly cheap education. Sure there are expensive books but I bet most of them has more interesting information than most websites or TV-programs.

You know what you get. Well, not all the time maybe, but more than a website or TV-program at least. You know what subject the book is about and you know it’s written correctly according to language rules and has some decent content.

That’s all I could think about right now.

What’s your thoughts about this?

Are you a person who always sees your mistakes instead of what you have accomplished?

This is a very commen problem and I have problems with it sometimes as well. It is easy to compare what you do to others. It kind of gets to us by media all the time; how you should act, how you should dress, how you should look and so on.

Media survives on us being insecure and want to shape us all in the same form. The power of media decide what we should do, what we should think, who we should feel sorry about etc. If you go against the mainstream you are being weird and a bit crazy, all according to media. This is very sad. Do we at all have our own believes? How does the sourroundings affect us?

What I am trying to say is this: Media are owned by rich companies that are all about profits. Don’t forget that. They will write whatever makes them more money. It is no coincidence they choose to write about sadness, illness, diseases, war etc. It all has to do with money. It all has to do with who their sponsors are. Don’t forget that. And certainly don’t feel sad about that. Listen to yourself. Listen to what you want. To many of my friends care about what the rest of my friends think. First of all think about you and your believes. What do you care about and why? And don’t forget that you’ll be enlightened by people arguing against you. You will get new points of view and you will will develop your thinking.

Look at what you’re good at instead of what your mistakes are. Everyone makes mistakes. Think about what you’re good at, or what you want to learn. What does it take? Be you. And be unique. That’s why many of the so called “nerds” are doing much better than an average person. They know what they are good at and they’re following their instincts. They know why and what interest them.

So, what’s your opportunities?

That’s as easy as asking what you like to do. What do you like to do when you wake up? What’s your passion? What do you think about? What do you care about?

I’ll bet if you do, professionly, what you really like to do you will end up just fine. As long as you’ll see your assets instead of your problems you will do well.

When you think about your failures you should look at them as experiences. See them as a part of history that made you stronger. See them as a part of yourself that grew in the right direction. And only care about what you feel is right.

The point is this: You will never make it anywhere if you don’t take chances. Life is about living out what you dream of. Most people are conservative and don’t take risks. They are afraid of what they might lose. Instead you should look at what you might gain. Repeat this and you will succeed sooner or later. It’s all psychological, as long as you have the right set of mind you will go far. You will get nowhere if you don’t try. If you don’t take chances.

The key to success is to continue even though you have failed many times. You will learn through your mistakes. You might fail 20 times and make something you’re proud of the 21:st. Don’t give up! That’s the number one mistake people make. Or maybe listening to other peoples mistakes. They are underestimationg their on abilities.

We are all learning new things all the time, so why don’t get the most of what you want to learn. An article called “How to improve your study habits and remember better” are investigating the subject. The article is mainly written to students but the tips can be used by anyone.

It is talking about a very interesting subject, how people tend to move their assignments to the very last second. I believe this is very commen and I also believe it has to do with the sourroundings disturbing them. How wouldn’t want to play football with their friends instead of making some school work, or writing that job report.

My view on this is to always try to do your “has to’s” in the mornings, when you are fresh and alert. It always seems easier to do the “hard” stuff early. And also, when you get an assigment, try to get it done as fast as you can; the first day, first week and maybe first month depending on how big the project might be. The earlier you start, the easier it is for you to actually feel good about the project and get it done. And this means you will get more effective as well.