Why should you develop the studying or reading habit?

Someone asked me this question – why should I develop the studying habit? The person who asked this was a student. First thing I told her was to broaden the question to cover not only studying but reading as well. Studying refers to what we do as students but reading is something that we should undertake for the whole of our life. As soon as we are done with studying, most of us give up reading as well. Hence, we fail to use reading as a continuous development tool for ourselves.

 

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