Author’s Note 9 Books are like exercise: long after you’re done, you still glisten from the e昀昀ort. Books travel around the world and invite you along for the ride. Books help people conquer their fears, be excited about life and living, solve their problems, and improve their circumstances. Books are inclusive; they exclude no one. Everyone is better o昀昀, and no one is left out. Entrepreneur Jim Rohn said, “If you can read and don’t, you are no better o昀昀 than someone who cannot read.” Recently Dr. Peter Diamandis’s X Prize was just won in Tanzania, where children in forty villages learned to read their native language and English in one and half years—forever changing and improving their lives. Dr. Diamandis, Elon Musk, founder and funder of this X Prize, and I believe that in this decade 4 billion nonreaders will gain the advantage of learning to read, write, and communicate e昀昀ectively. 吀栀at could more than double the amount of books sold. Books can become businesses that create empires. Dale Carnegie’s best- selling book How to Win Friends and In昀氀uence People created a worldwide training empire that grosses over $50 million each year. Books will introduce you to the most wonderful, help- ful, insightful, wise, and leading- edge people in the world.