Remember, your neurons will begin to mirror the thought processes and personalities of the great minds you read about. After all, there is so much information in just a few pages of a book with a wise luminary in it. Your brain picks up on all kinds of subtle information by just reading and absorbing. This happens even when you aren’t consciously aware it is happening.

For example, when you read the biography of Steve Jobs, you may start to think like him. You carry a little bit of his spirit with you because your brain mirrored his as it watched.

But there’s also so much information you can pick up from reading works that geniuses wrote or even works about them. You start to see the world in their way and think about problems the way they would. And you may even start to value what they value and believe what they believe.

If you want to be great, devote some time to reading biographies about your heroes. Also, aim the highest you can. Don’t read a book by some trendy pop science author, which is the intellectual equivalent of candy or junk food. For instance, you can read Charles Darwin’s, The Origin of Species. Or read Ray Kurzweil’s, The Singularity Is Near. That could be the mold you want to cast your spirit in, after all.