INDICATORS OF SUCCESSFUL CAREER CHOICE - READING CULTURE

By Allen Olatunde

READING CULTURE

There is one thing that everyone needs to possess to change himself, environment, choice, beliefs, value system and actions. This is knowledge. Knowledge is known as information. And information is formed by the numbers of data you get from reliable sources. Knowledge can be sourced for through learning. Learning can be achieved through habitual reading culture. This is an act of gleaning data and information from written books. When you sit back to learn from others that are dead or alive, far or near in a solitude and readiness to change, you learn more.
    Why do you need to read? Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists and to make his life full, significant, and interesting” (Aldous Huxley). Your mind is a gift from God loaded with the ability to store unquantifiable information. However, it remains dormant until it is stirred with the right materials in the right direction” (Ben Carson). “If you want to hide something from some black people, put it in a book, they will never read”. Do you agree with this statement? Although human being can learn in many ways, it has been proved that books are the best source for acquiring knowledge. Reading is a means of seeking knowledge (information) through the written word on books, journals, magazines, eBooks and newspapers. Developing a reading culture has become very important for any society in the 21st century.
As a student with dream career, there are 20 reasons why you must read:

1.    You must read because Jesus Christ, the greatest Leader of all time was a Great Reader when He was on earth (Luke 2:46; 4:17).
2.    You must read because books contain fantastic ideas and such ideas rule the world.
3.    Reading is a way of exposing your heart/mind to a higher thought.
4.    Reading is a way of stirring up the gifts of God in you and exploring your talents.
5.    Reading is the cheapest means of overcoming Ignorance.
6.    Reading stirs your imagination and makes you more creatively inclined.

7.    The books you read create an environment of enlightenment for you.
8.    Reading enhances and stretches your memory capacity like rubber band.
9.    Reading helps you to build your level of confidence.
10.    Reading helps you to get exposed to other places and cultures within and outside your country.
11.    If you can read and you do not read, you are not better than an illiterate.
12.    Every reader always turns out to be a leader.
13.    Reading makes your teacher closer to you than others; your teacher will surface in your room after crossing oceans and mountains that you may not be able to cross.
14.    Reading is a test-tube for calmness, patience, intelligence and reasoning.
15.    Reading guides you on making right decision. Reader does not talk nonsense or initiate garbage policy.
16.    Reading can make you an author and publisher on ideas you glean.
17.    Reading can save you and your people on the day others cannot save themselves.
18.    Reading gives divine blessing from God.
19.    Reading molds your image, culture, courtesy, and values.
20.    Lastly, I read because the world is waiting for my career manifestation.

Allen Olatunde
The Career Blogger