{"id":40647,"date":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/reading-habits-of-ultra-successful-people\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:00:00","slug":"reading-habits-of-ultra-successful-people","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/reading-habits-of-ultra-successful-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on Medium asks, &quot;Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common? They read. A lot.&quot; Warren Buffett would read 600-1000 pages a day. Bill Gates reads 50 books a year. Mark Cuban reads three hours a day. When asked how he learned to build rockets, Elon Musk said, &quot;I read books.&quot; But one thing that marks their reading is education. 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