Sometimes when I finished reading a book the thought that if only I have read it earlier my life would have been different comes to us. Reading a book at right time and right stage is also essential. Stephen Covey’ The 7 Habits of Highly successful persons is one such book. (If any one of you reading this felt about same while reading a book write about it.)

Colin Wilson’ The Outsider is another brilliant book that came to me fairly recently. The Outsider made me  re-read DOSTOEVSKY’ crime and punishment again. It gave me new meaning. I searched for Hemingway and Herman Hesse in my libraries. Colin Wilson needs a separate blog which I’ll do it after giving it a second reading.

Robin Sharma’s,” The man who sold red Ferrari” should be read when you are early twenties. So do Richard Bach’s “Jonatham Livingston Sea gull”. Robin Sharma and Stephen Covey came to me only after when I turned 50+. What benefit I could have gotten over by reading it.

I hit upon Henry Miller when I was in twenty. That was the age I hit upon sum drugs. Fortunately I left it soon. I was never ashamed of my hippie years. Because of that I had social awareness which helped in my official years to take decisions that bent on helping weaker sections.

While browsing the internet I stumbled upon these blog-20 things I wish I had known when starting out on life- Linkzenhabits.net/2008/02/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/

Many a time I have taken wrong decisions which led to failure and made me wiser by experience. There was no internet then. Now we have internet which shows so many options for us to think over.

How to plan finances

Fund your retirement, son. And don’t withdraw it

The people you make friends with are so much more important than your job or the things you buy.

The above three are the least things that I should have taken more care on my early life. Is it not?