I am very much looking forward to Alan's new book. I read "Million Dollar Consulting" based on your recommendation years ago and it is one of the very best business books I've ever read. To add a little to the point of leveraging your intellectual firepower, as a "study skills" expert, I don't believe it is necessarily the amount of time you spend "sharpening your saw," it is how strategically you do so. If you are really in the zone and using "high gear learning," you can get the best 80% of value out of 20% of a book. In other words, you can spend 20 minutes reviewing two very powerful chapters of a book and have 80% of the value out of it. At this rate, you can examine a new book everyday. This does not work for all books, but is great for most.