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 | Nick Vega is a money reporter at CNBC Make It. You can follow him on Twitter at @atNickVega. | | |
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If you want to "make a positive impact" on the world, Bill Gates says you need only pick up a book. Answering a query for his annual Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session on Thursday on how to make the world a better place, the Microsoft co-founder and world's No. 4 richest person said young people should search far and wide to find useful skills. "The ideal thing is to read a lot and hopefully find a skill you enjoy that can have [an] impact," Gates wrote. Make It's Tom Huddleston Jr. reports that Gates, who regularly releases lists of his favorite books, added that reading is essential to discovering a variety of new interests and potential skills, which you can then use to put your stamp on the world. |
Reading can point people in a number of different directions. "For some, that means being great at science or engineering," Gates wrote. "For some, it means being a great communicator or politician. For some, it means being a nurse or a doctor. The opportunity to learn is better today than ever before." Gates is well known for his reading habits, going through 50 books each year and often taking a tote bag of books with him on vacations, where he regularly reads for three hours a day. Huddleston also reported that in a 2017 interview, Gates told Time magazine that his reading habits have "absolutely" been essential to his success, and claims to finish every book he starts, even if he doesn't like it. "You don't really start getting old until you stop learning," Gates said at the time. "Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently." |
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