The #1 Reading Mistake To Avoid At All Costs:
Discovering a life-changing, mind-blowing insight that gets your heart racing, and then doing nothing with it.
Unless you are reading to be entertained, the failure to take action when we find what we need is a criticalmistake.
My advice?
Read things that are connected to specific goals and projects you are working on so that you know how to take action.
Paul Mussosubstack.comPaul Musso, PhD on Substack
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