I have 8 kids it comes naturaly LOL! Go shoot your fancy testosterone and lift the weights. When I was your age weights were called Shovels and WE LIKED IT!

/sarcasm

That wasn't a slam at you, or a judgement on you as a person. It was intended to combat what I consider a destructive mindset. "Reading's gay" is not what we should be espousing as the benchmark for our children/society.

As to your success (which I wish you more of), being an engineer (as I am) you have to recognize that there are a million different paths to the same place, and each has its own obstacles. Yes, you are an engineer, even though you started out as a bully. However, did you ever think what your trajectory might have been if you had developed a love for reading? Maybe if you had that love for information you would have seen being an engineer as a quick passover onto a different career.

I'm constantly re-evaluating decisions I've made, and how they may have affected my life. That's all I'm saying here.

People who don't read are 30% less intelligent, that's a fact. Love of reading is a better indicator of income potential than years of education and the economic conditions you grew up in.

I enjoy reading Napoleon Hill too, it gives you another vision of life.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm George Orwell

And a LOT of different fantasy and fiction books, here are some of my favorite authors;
Tom Clancy, Brandon Sanderson, W.E.B. Griffin, Brad Thor, Mark Greaney, Ken Follet, oh and Lee Child.

Bible