Hi, this is Tom Corley. I’m the author of "Rich Habits."

我是汤姆.科利,“富人的习惯”一书的作者。

Wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor is all about your habits. Reading certain specific books — this is what the self-made millionaires do to help increase their wealth.

财富，成功以及当中产还是做穷人，最重要的就是你的习惯。读特定类别的书籍，这是很多白手起家的富豪，增加财富的秘诀。

You don’t have to do a lot. 15 to 20 minutes is all it takes to develop more knowledge, to build your knowledge-base and to improve yourself. You start out with that 15 to 20 minutes of reading every day, and the next thing you know you’ll be doing an hour a day because you’ll be so excited about all the information that you’re learning.

你不需要读太多书，仅需要15到20分钟，你就能获取更多知识，构筑提升自己的知识体系。接下来，你就会发现，你每天会用一个小时来做这件事情，你因为你对于自己每天通过读书获得的信息，感到兴奋不已。

So, I found in my research that there are some common books that the self-made millionaires read. Now, there are self-help books that they read and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is one of them. But they also read a lot of biographies of other successful people.

我在我的研究中发现，有一些书是白手起家的富豪们爱读的。以下是这些富豪们爱读的书：“如何获得朋友以及认识有影响力的人”是其中一类书；他们还爱读成功人士的自传。

Why? Why would they read about someone else’s life? Inside these books — these autobiographies or these biographies of successful people is actually a history of all the mistakes that they made. And one of the things that I uncovered in my research is: mentors are the fast-track to building wealth. Well, a book — an autobiography or biography can be a mentor. It can point you in the right direction. It can tell you what to do and what not to do.

为什么呢？为什么他们会想读别人的生活呢？在这些成功人士的自传或者传记中，有他们的经验教训。在我的研究中，揭示的一件事情是：有导师可以快速致富。那么，一本传记或者自传完全可以作为一位导师。它可以为你指引正确的方向，可以告诉你什么可以做，什么不可以做。