Read and grow rich : [how the hidden power of reading can make you richer in all areas of your life!] by Hedges Burke

Author:Hedges, Burke [Hedges, Burke]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Reading (Adult education), Reading, Adult learning, Adult education, Education, Conduct of life, Success in business
Publisher: Tampa, FL : INTI Pub. & Resource Books, Inc.
Published: 1999-06-09T19:00:00+00:00

sane asylum for the rest of her life. Her parents refused.

When the girl was seven, the family hired a young woman to tutor her. For weeks the tutor tried to communicate with the girl by spelling words into her hand. The little girl could feel the tutor's fingers on her palm, but the symbols didn't have any meaning to her.

She was still trapped.

Reading Provides a Breakthrough

Then one day there came a breakthrough. The little girl was holding a cup under a gushing water spout. The tutor kept spelling the word "w-a-t-e-r" into the girl's hand.

Suddenly, the little girl understood that the letters represented an object! In that flash of recognition, the door to the world flew wide open to the little girl. She ran around the yard, grabbing objects at random, begging the tutor to spell the name of each object into her palm. As the little girl wrote years later, "Spark after spark of meaning flew from hand to hand." That day the litde girl was no longer trapped inside her mind. She was finally free.

This story is a perfect metaphor for all of our lives. At dmes we've all felt trapped inside our minds, unable to understand or express our true feelings. At dmes like these we felt alone. Frightened. And angry.

But we don't have to remain that way. Like the little girl, reading can help us break through our mental prison. Reading has the power to transform us by connecting us to others and to ourselves. It's a tool that anyone, including YOU, can use to help you grow to your full potential.

The little girl, by the way, did manage to grow to her full potendal, and it was the technology of reading that enabled her to transform herself. Once she understood the concept of reading and writing, she became a voracious learner. By the time she was 10, she was writing letters in French to famous persons in Europe!

She decided to go to college, and her dedicated tutor sat beside her spelling the words of lectures into her hand. She graduated from Radcliffe with honors, and went on to become a celebrated writer who was honored by kings and presidents.

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