Your website content is great and very inspirational. I was wondering if you could recommend any video/dvd documentaries that discuss empowerment of the individual and the community.

Thanks for your help

But even successful talkers need to be bringing new and better thought patterns into their minds to continue to grow. Many of the successful talkers I know of are also big readers.

You say you are a skim reader. But I bet you are taking in more of what you look at than you realize. And because you do it quickly, I imagine you look at tons of stuff too – keeping your brain fed along the way.

Now on a personal note, I do read my bible every day. However, beyond that I am a skim reader.

Mike

My first thought is that movies probably involve us more emotionally. But then I wouldn’t want to try to convince a Steven King lover that they weren’t emotionally involved in the story!

I couldn’t agree more about the importance of reading. I like movies, and have learned a lot from them, but you use a different mindset when you’re watching a movie or listening to audio than you use when you’re reading. With the movies and audio you get involved in what is being presented to you and get pulled along at its pace, and don’t think about it until later. Reading is abstract, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction. Your create the images as you’re reading. The pace is determined by you, so you can take time at any point to think about what you’re reading.