Without further ado, let's move on to the first pill on the dosage "Read".
Please note these pills are a whole dosage and the first is as important as the least.
Pill one: Read or Reading
Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen Kings.
While I was very much younger, specifically during my primary school years, I never knew what it meant to read for an examination, I'm sure you can relate with that too. All you just have to do is go to school, do classwork, do assignment and when the time for examination comes go in and write to the best your memory could serve you.
That was the normal thing until I was preparing for my common entrance examination to secondary school and there's this uncle who approached my mom only to tell her he had a special interest in me, that only if my mom would allow him, he would train me up to attend the most sought Comprehensive High School in Ayetoro, been one of the best schools pupils from my hometown used to seek admission to then, my mom gave her consent and that was the beginning of my trouble but rewarding journey to school of reading.
My uncle would always enforce me to attend lesson in his house for straight four hours after school hours, been a primary four pupil then, I saw this as more of suffering than training. How would I be leaving home before 8am only to get back home at past 6pm only because I want to write an ordinary common entrance even from the word "common" it sounded to me then that my uncle was only interested in the lesson fee my mom was paying him.
If you solved the "Ugo C Ugo" common entrance past questions of 2006/2007, you would know what level of suffering I scaled through those days because I must confess to you even against my will, I solved all the questions in that pack from front to the last page. If my head serves me right, I think the past questions was a compilation from 1985 to 2005 (though I'm not sure but it was quite voluminous then).
I never saw the reason to go through this difficult process as have been topping the class from pry 2 even without reading but I was totally surprised when the Common Entrance results came out and I became the overall best Student that year with a 98% score, I overturned the 96% record that I met and set a new one. That score was the best any entrance Student could have from the 1950s the school had been established.
Though that story was for academic purposes but I believe it does a perfect representation of the context of reading we're looking at.
The fact remains whatever success you're gunning at, chances abound you've a natural ability or let me say talent in it but when you commit yourself to extensive reading, your talents will be sharpened and you'll develop an expertise in it.
I tell you there are books about almost every human endeavor and I dare you if you start reading from today till the rest of your life, you can never exhaust the wealth of wisdom embedded in good books.
Please, don't quote me wrong and begin to read anything you find your hands on just to justify yourself you're reading but make a selective collections of books that mattered to your area of interest and don't read them as an academic activity where in most cases after an examination, you're off.
Read to seek information, to gain skill and appropriate whatever you learnt from books to gain expertise.
Emmanuela D'a Muse
Your Success Doctor.
Very true,Weldone
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