I remember Seth Godin saying one time that he’s the same he was 20 years ago except for the people he’s met and the books he’s read. Russell Moore recently quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson with a similar line that I liked maybe even better.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
via Russell Moore