1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 How's it going guys? Welcome to this episode of Technically Short. My name is Thomas Edward 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:16,320 Carney. That is the T-E-C in the beginning of Technically Short. If you would like to 3 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,800 leave a comment, leave a five star review, or share this out on your social media so 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,680 that would be greatly appreciated. And I just want to say real quick, pretty early in the 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:31,080 episode, I say that the book Carry a Big Stick is written by Stuart R. Roosevelt. And that 6 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:38,080 is wrong. I had to fact check myself. It was actually written by George Grant. So if you 7 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:44,920 hear that, don't fact check me. Gar did it. All right. See you in the episode. All right, 8 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:51,640 guys, let's dive right in. So today we're going to be talking about reading. I know 9 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,680 that sounds exciting. Just like the last episode on finances. I know we're doing so many fun 10 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,760 things here today or this week or this month or whatever you want to say. Let's get into 11 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,520 it though. Why am I talking about reading? Okay. You might already clicked off. Don't 12 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,680 do that. Come back. Come back. I don't know how that works, but come back. Okay. Let's 13 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:14,080 dive in. Let's keep going. The name of this episode is How to Grow All the Time. And then 14 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,840 it's like, read. You know, that's the name of the episode. You already read it a few 15 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:24,280 times hopefully. Um, and this is something that has been instantiated in me from a very 16 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,760 young age. And so like this episode, we're going to, we're going to go through a couple 17 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:35,200 reasons why I love to read. We're going to go through the background behind that and 18 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:41,840 then really get into what that background, that seed, the seeds that were planted really 19 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,440 grew into and it really grew into my love of growth. Let's dive into the background 20 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:53,280 a little bit. Why do I love to read? So this is kind of funny actually, because I wrote 21 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,720 down, um, like what my dad did. My, when I was, when I was a kid, my dad actually paid 22 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:06,800 myself and my older sister to read books. Well, he actually paid us to write the essays, 23 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,480 one page essays for books. He did, he would give us, I believe $10 for certain books, 24 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:18,520 $10 for others. And we're like, yeah, for sure. Of course we're going to do that because 25 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:24,040 $10 felt like a thousand dollars when you're like, I don't know, 10. So I feel like I, 26 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:29,160 I, I, I'm not joking. I'm pretty sure I was that young and I had been reading books by 27 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:37,640 Zig Ziglar, um, Teddy Roosevelt, like, like carry a big stick. Like I believe that's from 28 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:42,960 Teddy Roosevelt. Don't quote me on that. I'll have you can quote. Don't quote me. Fact 29 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,800 check me. It was a book written by someone who was no longer alive. And I was listening. 30 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,600 The reason I said it was funny was because I was listening, like kind of pert myself 31 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,280 a little bit more for this episode. I was re I was listening to a couple of videos, 32 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:05,080 uh, that, uh, of John Maxwell and he was talking about why he reads and what, what didn't you 33 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:11,480 know it? His dad did the same thing. His dad's older than my dad. His dad died at 98 and 34 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:18,480 a half years old. And I'm like, is that where my dad got it? Like I was just like making 35 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,800 my dinner and I was like, man, it all makes sense now. Like I know you went to a conference 36 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,480 and that person probably heard it from someone else. I don't know if my dad heard it from 37 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:33,160 John Maxwell, but like it was full circle in like a day, but um, it was nuts. I never 38 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,120 really asked my dad like why he had me do that. I mean, if I did, and if I did, I don't 39 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:44,800 remember. So, but what I believe he was doing was planting his seed, what planning is see 40 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:51,840 wanting us to gain wisdom from these books and books that he's he read himself. And I'm 41 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,120 going to be honest with you. I don't think that part worked. I don't know if that part 42 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,680 worked that well. I'm going to be a hundred percent honest. I don't think I understood 43 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,680 exactly. I didn't really understand what I was reading and I didn't retain it too well 44 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,800 because really what my focus was mainly on was getting the money and writing the essay. 45 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,920 I mean, I did that, but it was, it was, I'm thinking about that now that I don't think 46 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:20,080 I remember anything from that book, but for all I know, there are seeds that were planted 47 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,760 that are affecting me today that I don't even realize. But the thing that I know for a fact 48 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:31,440 worked it, that created my love of reading. We already, I already kind of read. I remember 49 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:37,880 like going into high school, like even before high school, I'd go to bed, like reading an 50 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,640 hour before bed. And then I'd wake up and these be fiction books. Like these be books 51 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:47,600 about like fictional stories that I'd be reading. I would read like an hour before bed reading. 52 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,600 And then sometimes when I woke up on the weekend, I was like, man, I can't wait to wake up and 53 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,000 read my book. And I would read for like two hours, like no joke, just lay it. I would 54 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,400 get up. I wouldn't grab my phone. I didn't have a phone when I was that young. Neither 55 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:05,980 should any child. Anyway, my, I'm not a parent, so I'm, I get it. But, uh, I would wake up 56 00:05:05,980 --> 00:05:14,920 and just read for two hours. I wake up, grab my book and read. And like, I miss that. I 57 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,540 don't do that anymore. I read, but I don't wake up and immediately start reading. Cause 58 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:23,040 I have like the routine that I went, Oh, actually that's a lie. I wake up every morning and 59 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,320 read my Bible. So I guess I do that just not for two hours. Doing it every day for two 60 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,880 hours would be kind of cool though. If I had that, if like, I actually had that time to 61 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,600 do every day, maybe that could be a goal. But the reason I'm bringing any of that up, 62 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,400 like, you know, I want to, well, well, like I read those books and the books I was reading, 63 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,360 you know, some of the, some of my favorite books, whenever I was, um, reading the fictional 64 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,220 stories, it was things like Harry Potter, Charlie Bone. If you ever heard of Charlie 65 00:05:46,220 --> 00:05:50,520 Bone, the Charlie Bone series, kind of like Harry Potter, but was Charlie. It's like, 66 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:56,480 it's like Charlie Potter, kind of like Harry Potter and X-Men, like the school where like 67 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:02,160 all the, um, Xavier's school for gifted children or something like that. Um, it's kind of like 68 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,640 that. My Harry Potter and X-Men mixed into one, like they had Matt, like it was cool. 69 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,560 I loved it and I still love it. I have to have the whole series still on my bookshelf. 70 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,880 Uh, and then chaos walking, which is something I found just randomly in the library. Like 71 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,920 those are some of my favorite book series and like they, um, it's great. Like all of 72 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,320 that, like I said, planted a seed that really didn't take root till much later in life. 73 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:31,880 Let's dive into this, uh, kind of part two of this episode is my love of growth. Like 74 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:37,360 I love, I love to grow. I used to say, I love to learn and I still do. I still say that, 75 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,160 but like, I love to learn, but why do I love to learn? Like I love to learn because I love 76 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:47,680 to grow. And the best way I found to do that is by reading books. You might disagree with 77 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,200 me. You might be like, Thomas, I'm not a reading person. I don't like to read books. I mean, 78 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,240 you can do audio books. I don't believe you get the same quality of retention and things 79 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:04,800 like that from just doing audio books, but you do get benefit from those. Uh, and I get 80 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,320 that from like just from re like a couple of little bits of research and things I've 81 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,880 done, but we're not going to dive into that. But one of the excerpts, uh, I have an excerpt 82 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:21,000 right now from Mark Cole. He's a John Maxwell CEO for his leadership company. And this is 83 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,520 from an article called all great leaders have one thing in common. He says personal development 84 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:34,760 is fundamental fundamentally linked to reading to improve, to improve oneself and those around 85 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:40,760 them. One should read more. The question should not be if one should read, but what one should 86 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,840 read. That's more of a paraphrase, just to be honest, but it's, but it is all of that's 87 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:52,920 true from that article. And I really liked that last sentence. The question should not 88 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,720 be if one should read, but what one should read, what are you like, it's what are you 89 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,920 intentionally seeking? I want wisdom. Are you intentionally searching for? And I like 90 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:07,080 one thing I can look back and like every time I want to learn something or focus, I was 91 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,080 willing to learn something or focus on a new topic. I would look for a book written by 92 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:18,280 an author that it was an is or was an expert on the subject. For instance, for time management, 93 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:24,720 I read redeeming your time by Jordan Rainer for leadership. I read anything by John Maxwell 94 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:30,840 for starting an online business, Russell Brunson all the way, understanding how to think or 95 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:36,440 on the, I'm sorry, understanding how people think. There we go. Aristotle and then learning 96 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:42,880 how to live well and learning how to think the Bible. And the reason I say all these 97 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:48,880 because these are the most, I'm not going to meet, I most likely will not meet any of 98 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,040 these people in my lifetime. I definitely have the opportunity, but I do not have the 99 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:57,760 same opportunity as other people to meet these people. And I have the same opportunity as 100 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,320 everybody else has, and it's to read the books that they put out there to help others and 101 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,960 to serve the communities that they serve. So like the reason I say, like, I love to 102 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:13,120 grow and that, and they say that personal development is linked to reading is because 103 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,560 I believe at least the more, whenever you're reading these books, you're planting seeds 104 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:22,920 in your own mind. And this is a little bit later in my notes, but I kind of flows in 105 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,640 well to it. I thought this was really cool. I don't know if you ever thought about it, 106 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,680 but there is, you know, whenever you plant, you're planting seeds, like actual seeds for 107 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:37,280 like a garden, there's a lot of plants, like even a lot of plants that where you have to 108 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:43,680 put more than one seed into the plot. In this, in my mind, I was thinking about how I was 109 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:51,400 preparing for this episode. I meet, I, I eventually thought like multiple seeds. Okay. Wait, acorns. 110 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:57,800 Okay. Hear, hear me out. Where's he going? Um, no acorns. Like you need multiple acorns 111 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:03,600 to grow the mighty oak. This is a little something I made up with the help of AI, but, um, I'm 112 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,280 just going to read this like little thing. Uh, think of each book you read, like a little, 113 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,080 like a little acorn that's got the, the guts of potential to grow into a big, strong oak 114 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:16,120 tree inside your head. The more books or acorns you plant in your brain, in your, in your 115 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,120 brain garden. This is funny. The better your chances of growing a whole forest of smarts. 116 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:30,120 Or I would say better your chances of growing a whole forest of wisdom. Just like with your 117 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,160 real, that's like with a real acorns, not every book is going to sprout into a tree 118 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,600 and that's okay. The important thing is to keep planting, read everything you can get 119 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:44,360 your hands on. Every book, whether it sprouts or not, it's going to help you grow that oak 120 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:49,600 tree of understanding inside your head. The one thing I want to pull out of that is it's 121 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:56,120 read anything you get your hands on with the one caveat is what it was saying. We're going 122 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,720 back to that excerpt from a Mark Cole is that it's not if you should read, it's what you 123 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,080 should read. So it's to be very intentional about reading. And like, I know I'm kind of 124 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:10,560 getting off of like why I loved, like this is me saying I love to grow and diving into 125 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:17,680 how books actually help you grow. I don't think that whenever you, whenever I read reading 126 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:21,480 your time, I only read it once by Jordan Rainer. I don't, I know I didn't retain everything 127 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,440 that he wrote, but there are things that stuck out that planted the seeds that took root 128 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,360 that I still instantiate today. I read that book like two years ago and there are things 129 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:34,120 I remember that things I do. The John Maxwell is going to keep reading his books because 130 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:40,680 I want to be the best leader I can be. Those are just a few examples. I know you listener, 131 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:45,120 the person who is listening right now, I know you have something that you wanted to like 132 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,320 to know more about and I know there's a book on it. I don't even need that. Like I don't 133 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,840 need to know what you're thinking right now. I don't need to know what subject you want 134 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:57,720 to know more about. I already know for a fact that there was a book out there about it because 135 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:02,900 multiple people have already been where you are and are where you want to be. And some 136 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:08,440 of them just so happened to write it down. Like, isn't that cool? I don't know if this 137 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,760 is a different episode, but it's definitely an episode that like I feel really passionate 138 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:18,880 about. I believe, no, I don't just believe I know that people, if people would dive into 139 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,320 books more than people would read more of these quality books or in by these quality 140 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,320 people who know what they're talking about and how do you vet those people? You do research 141 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,680 how you know that they know what they're talking about. You vet them, you do your research. 142 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:38,400 You don't just pick, pick the first book that comes off that you see on the shelf, but you 143 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:45,040 do, but you do try. You do read these books. Do you, I talked about in a previous episode 144 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:51,280 about habits, like you make a habit of reading. So it becomes so, so instilled in you that 145 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:57,880 it feels wrong not to do it to tie up this episode. I just want to do a quick listener 146 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:08,480 shout out from my episode, living with pain and accomplishing goals on, on Spotify, Zach, 147 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:14,440 Zach, Sarah left a comment. And I just want to start doing this as people leave comments 148 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,000 every episode, just read it when you guys are guys listening to comments, because I 149 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,680 really appreciate your support. He said amazing episode, brother. I have, I have trouble asking 150 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:29,520 for help. And I try to figure out things on my own, but sometimes you have to realize 151 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,620 that are that there are people that know more than you that know more than you and can make 152 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:40,120 it easier. And that is extremely true, Zach. So thank you for your comment and really appreciate 153 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:46,080 your support, man. Well, I appreciate you listening to this episode of the podcast. 154 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,680 If you liked this episode, give it a like, give us five stars on Instagram, on an Apple 155 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:58,280 podcast, give us whatever platform you're on, give us really love these actual listener 156 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:04,600 comments that you can leave on Spotify or Apple podcasts, or even technically on YouTube 157 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,680 if you want to. If you can do that, that'd be awesome. Love. I love getting feedback, 158 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:14,800 whether I love getting these any critiques and I love the texts that you guys send me 159 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,000 whenever you listen to an episode and you really like it that I really do appreciate 160 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:25,840 that. And actually we got, I got a text right before recording this episode. So yeah, I 161 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:48,680 really appreciate that stuff. But all right guys, I'll see you next time.