My father told me to be really smart. When I was a child I read volumes and volumes of histories of the united states, children's encyclopedias, regular encycl

My father told me to be really smart. When I was a child I read volumes and volumes of histories of the united states, children's encyclopedias, regular encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc, etc. At some point the reading has to end. The learning has to end. You have to do it. Also, smarts don't matter. You can be the smartest person in the world, but until you do it. It doesn't matter, because you're just like the kid who hasn't read it all. Stop being a theorist and start being the guy in the arena[1]. [1] http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html