ALOK SHARMA
Aug 22, 2017 · 3 min read

Why you should stop reading books and start doing your stuff?

Warren Buffet reads 500 pages a day but you are not Warren Buffet. You are simply you.


I used to spend my whole day on Facebook or Whatsapp chatting with friends or watching and re-watching movies and TV shows till last year.

But then something happened. I realized that I am bored of all this shit and all thus need to change.

So one of my friend suggested why don’t you start reading books. It is a great fun to read books. AS well as they are so much informative all the time.

That time I recalled how I used to be crazy about comics and story books in my childhood.

So I decided to read some book. Obviously fiction. More precisely, Romantic fiction.

I loved the experience. So I read few more. One after another. And literally I got bored again.

So I jumped to other genres like philosophy, self help, money making, Investing and whatever I got.

And I was like where have I been my whole life. Books are such an amazing thing. They can give you whatever you want.

The one consequent of reading books is you start to feel that you can write also. The same happened to me.

I wanted to write articles, blogs and books. So I started reading about how to be a better writer. What are do’s and don’ts? Where to start and more important where to finish?

I was doing my best to learn about how to write but I was not writing. Then i read this somewhere.


Man 1: I purchased this book named ‘How to write a book in 30 days’. Two years had passed but i haven’t completed even chapter one of the book. I think such books are crap.

Man 2: No friend. The title says write a book in 30 days. It doesn’t say a month. Know the difference.


The same moment I read this, I realized my mistake. I was so busy in learning about process that I forgot to switch on the plant ( Forgive me for a chemical engineering joke).

That is why I am saying stop reading books and start converting your ideas into realities.

Beginnings ain’t meant to be perfect. Endings are.

If you are just consuming books one after another, it is no way better than scrolling through your news feed or watching movies or web series.

Then people will come and say but Warren buffet reads 500 pages a day, bill gates reads 50 books a year. And if I want to be like that I should do the same.

I want to say here that never compare someone’s day 500 to your day 1.

Know your limits. Work accordingly. Things take time to get perfect so why not start today?

Always remember if you want to reach somewhere, you have to leave some place. And the earlier you leave the place, the earlier are chances of you to reach your destination.


This is my first story on medium. I have been reading medium for last 3 months and finally I am starting to write.

This article may not be best among the articles here but I am more than happy that I have started. And I hope that I will continue this.

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ALOK SHARMA

Reader, Writer and soon will be a Chemical Engineer…

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