It’s been about 25 years and I’ll never forget the statement. When I was in Bible School, I had a professor who would often say to us: “If you have a chance to do the talking or do the listening—choose to listen. The reason, he said, was that you can’t learn anything new by talking since you already know everything you’re going to say.”
Good advice, given that most of us wants to become smarter and wiser in life. Still, there is something that’s potentially even more powerful than listening to others doing most of the talking. I’m referring to the ‘B’ word…the lost art of book reading.
If I haven’t lost you yet, that could mean you’re either interested in what I have to say or you want to see how out-of-touch I really am to suggest reading books. But here’s the skinny: Reading books typically benefit the reader far better on a particular subject that the best advice from others because of the amount of research and expertise invested in it.
So, even if reading books are not your specialty, it can be equivalent to sitting down with an expert advisor or counselor and getting you questions answered for a only a few bucks. Makes you wiser and smarter too.
Let me list a few of my favorite books that you might want to read:
- Creation/Evolution and the Bible—The New Answers Book 1 & 2, by Ken Ham (this is one of the books I’m reading now)
- Marriage—Making Love Last Forever, by Gary Smalley
- Parenting—How to be Hero to Your Kids, by Josh McDowell
- Finances—Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey
- Knowing God—30 Life Principles, by Charles Stanley
If there is a subject or theme that you are interested in, write a comment to this blog and I’ll be sure to contact you via email. In the meantime, you can become increasingly wiser by picking up the titles listed.
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