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Yo, today's QOD is what

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we become depends on

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what we read after all the

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professors are finished with us. Here

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we go. Welcome

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back to

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the QOD of the Day show. I'm

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your host, Sean Croxton and Sean croxton.com. We

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got all man Dino on this show

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today. And today, Ogg is

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going to encourage you to do

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one of my most favorite things of all time, which

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is to read more books. You

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know, on my Instagram account, I've been

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doing these monthly wrap ups. So I

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just posted my February wrap

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up and it was eight books read.

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And I think the total pages came out to 18,146. And

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I know some people will look at that and be like, I

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can't do that. I don't have time for that. You don't have

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to do that. You don't have

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to read eight books a month. You can read two. You

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can read one book. If you read one

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book per month, you are way ahead of

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the majority of the population, which is one book.

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Most people don't read any books a

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year. So just one book. And

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you know, often here, I don't have the

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time for that. I don't have time to read. Everybody

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has time to read. I'm

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sticking to my commitment of only

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watching Golden State Warriors games this

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year. And I

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can read 25 pages during the game. Like,

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I don't need to watch free throws. I

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can read during free throws. That's about two minutes or so,

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about a minute and a half, maybe with free throws. Right?

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Then there's halftime and there's

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commercials. End of the game. I'm

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20, 25 pages deep. So

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everybody has time. Doesn't matter what

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you're watching, there's going to be commercials, there's

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going to be intros and credits and stuff

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like that. There's going to be opportunities just

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to read a few paragraphs. Then you read

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another few paragraphs. And then you're like, Oh

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my gosh, look how deep I am into

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this book. So you read 20 pages a

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day, five days a week, that's

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400 pages a month. That's one and a

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half books or so. And

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so I think everybody can find

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time and the payoff for

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such a minor investment

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of time is huge.

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And so I encourage you to read more

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books. I know I talked about this a

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few months ago, maybe like six months

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ago, book club is coming back in

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April, like for sure. And so

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I hope you jump into our book club and you

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read the books and you connect with other people who

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listen to the podcast and you make friends and stuff.

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You do the breakout groups and it's really, really fun.

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I can't wait to get back into that. And so

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without further ado,

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Augmandino is coming up. The

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most important secret of success

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that I had to learn the hard way is

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that life is a game.

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It's precious. It's holy.

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It's beautiful, but it's a game

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and you can't play in that game

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with any chance at all of winning

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unless you know the rules. Slight

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problem. While

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we were growing up, nobody

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ever taught us any of

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the rules. Not

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once, not in primary school, junior high school,

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high school, college, graduate school, not once. Did

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anybody even take 45 minutes to

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teach us how to set goals, How

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to motivate our students? Another. Other

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handle adversity when it comes into allies and a

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comes into all our lives. How

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to use our time profitably. Either

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get rid of the bad habits that we all pick up. Or

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to accumulate wealth. How

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to handle stress. And so

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much more. And

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so most of us. Will.

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Become spectators. And

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as great as game of all. Pushed

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aside by the lucky few.

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Who seem to know what they want? And

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more important, Or seem to

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know how to get. The.

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Pros: The. Great performers.

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They're all down on the field. Where.

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All the action, all the

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glory. And

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all the money is. And

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the rest of us. Were

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up in the bleachers watching them. And

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we had a pain to get him. So.

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Let's take inventory right now. The

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Sentinel. Edu

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possibly learn anything. During

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all those formative years of schooling, it you

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could apply, say starting tomorrow morning if you

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wanted to make a real change in your

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life no matter how good it is right

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now, he wanted to make a better. You

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bet you did. You.

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Learn how to

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reach. With.

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That one great ability that I know all

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of you have the ability to read. You can

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work miracles in your life. Kyle.

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Are many years ago. Road. What?

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We've been some. Depends.

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On what we read, As

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to all the processes of finished with

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us. The.

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Greatest university of all he wrote.

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Is a collection of box. My

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have a very different. and a

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wonderful speaker who builds

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himself as Charles' tremendous Jones.

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You might have heard Charlie. He's fabulous. Charlie

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is always telling his audiences, you

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will be the same person in

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five years as

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you are this afternoon, except

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for the people you meet and

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the books you read. I

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want to repeat that. It's not important.

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You will be the same person in

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five years as

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you are this afternoon, except

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for the people you meet and

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the books you read. So

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why not resort to maybe make a slight change

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in your daily routine? The

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next evening that you're free, instead of sitting in

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front of that boob tube in home and just

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feeling sorry for yourself, why not

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get in your car and go down to the local library? Go

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on in. Find that special

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shelf, that gold mine that's in every

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library, that shelf containing books

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on success, how to achieve it, and

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how to hold on to it after you get it. Walk

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up and introduce yourself to some of the most

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powerful and brilliant people who have ever lived, people

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like Norman Vincent Hill, Napoleon

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Hill, W. Clement Stone, Maxwell

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Moss, Dorothy Abran. They're

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waiting. They're

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waiting right now as we talk. They're

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waiting to help you, to show you the

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way to teach you how to change your

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life for the better. Slight

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problem, of course. You

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have got to get off your dust and go to them. Please

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do it. And if you have people

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under your supervision, suggest that they do it. It

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will be one of the best moves you ever made in your

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life. That

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was Augmandino. His website

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is augmandino.com. You can

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watch. today's entire talk on

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the YouTube. It is called Greatest

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Secret to Success Shorts. Aug

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Mandino, Dave Blanchard, Personal

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Growth. Alright my

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friend, I've got Darren Hardy on this

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show tomorrow. If you've been like wondering

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why don't I do the thing?

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I know what to do but I

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just don't do it. Highly recommend you tune

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in tomorrow. I'll see you then.