Words never change our lives, but we collect them nevertheless in hope that they might. Experience does not demand alteration, only participation. Desire is empty left alone. As you read the words that follow remember this: If you are to grow to what you believe is true of your own self, then you will have to dramatically change your life. Don’t be too quick to shift to the next idea as if you just internalized the last. Reading and learning do not guarantee improvement; right action does. So the question every time we try something new, or come at things differently is not only, “Is this idea worthy?” but more central, “Will I do something with this idea in a way that is lasting?”