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READING

Have you ever taught someone how to read? It’s amazing how a mind starts to put together letters, shapes and sounds before making them into words. When you are teaching someone (usually the very young) how to read it’s incredible when they first start to ‘get it’. So once we’ve ‘got it’, when and why do we start to lose it?

Your ability to read is one of the most amazing gifts you have. However, in many cases, it’s also one of the most underused gifts. The challenge is that we have so much to read just to get through our days, by the time we have a moment to ourselves can we really be bothered?

I was very fortunate to be introduced to a remarkable man called David Brown, who challenged me with a life-changing question: ‘What are ...

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