Be the student in the room

- One of my mentors was a guy named Charlie "Tremendous" Jones. He was bigger than life. They called him "Tremendous", because everything was tremendous for him and he was a character and he said to me once, "Ron", he said, "Ron, you're going to be the same five years from now as you are today, except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet. So value them both." Then, of course, today, we have a lot of other mediums to work from, but that phrase always stuck with me. The books you read, because I dedicate at least a minimum of 30 minutes a day to reading books that are around my profession or around the development of my character. I've now got over 3000 books that I've read. That has an impact on your subconscious and I wouldn't say I was necessarily a great container of what I read, but you'd keep doing it and eventually it produces a benefit for you and then the people you meet,…