One of the keys to growing as a person is to learn as a person. How we think predominately controls how we act and the choices we make. As we learn we know more and we think clearer and we can solve problems better and quicker. Obviously this is assuming that we are learning good stuff, true, nobel, and Godly. For me the most rapid learning takes place when I read good books. Because I came to this conclusion years ago I read as a basic discipline of life because I want to learn and I want to grow. I throw away a lot of books that I buy because when I finish the first chapter I can tell if it is a book I will learn from and will challenge me and will hold my attention. There are so many good books there isn’t much sense reading one that is average. Some books are so good that they are worth reading annually at least for awhile. My goal is to read 100 pages each week at 20 pages a day. Lots of people that I have heard about read way more than that but that amount seems to work for me along with other disciplines including my Bible reading and prayer time. I extend my reading time by writing down key principles, paradigms, and axioms as I pick them up as I read. I go back and reread my wisdom collection several times each month to get them ingrained in my head. Wisdom is more than knowledge, but without knowledge wisdom is impossible. The book of Proverbs in the Bible says to seek wisdom like gold or silver or precious treasure if you want to find it. I intend to do that.