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There Are Two Ways to Read - One Is Useless
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Books are Thoughts Immortalized
A Book is one of the most powerful inventions as through them thoughts time travel.
Books provide us with stories and thoughts of people long dead, immortalizing them in the process.
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Books transcend Time and Space
Whether it is Aristotle, Kepler, Newton or Darwin, we talk about them, and discuss their works because of the written word, left behind, escaping the boundaries of time and space.
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The Wisdom of the Past
There is deep wisdom in the past, letting one discover, connect and gain inspiration from a reservoir of information.
Almost everything important and valuable has its roots in the invention of the written word.
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Reading the Right Way
Reading in schools and colleges have been confined to reading to pass exams or to solve a purpose, creating a specific, goal-oriented mindset.
When we read for the joy of reading, with an open mind, the books start to reveal themselves.
Reading is not limited to extracting Right or Wrong based on our current mindset but can be used to expand the same.
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A Thousand Lives
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies; The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R. R. Martin
from A Dance with Dragons
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Cynical Readers
We have become cynical readers – we read in the disjointed, goal-oriented way that online life encourages & we stop exercising our attention.
We read just as much if not more. We live in a text-gorged society in which the most fleeting thought is a thumb-dash away from posterity. It's how we read that changed.
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Trusting your instincts
Your first impressions are usually pretty accurate. But whether they are wrong or right, first impressions affect us in a big way and we are slow to change them.
You have to be willing to update them quite rapidly.
Reading first impressions
- Studies show that if someone seems extroverted, confident, religious or conscientious, they probably are.
- We all pay more attention to pretty people, and so we tend to take the time to evaluate them.
- If you want to know if someone is good at their job, watch them do it for 30-60 seconds.
- Funny people are smart: Effective humor production acts as an honest indicator of intelligence in humans.
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Superbetter
In her book, 'Superbetter', the author Jane McGonigal, teaches us all a valuable lesson on how to overcome obstacles while having a gamer's mindset, as she is herself a game designer.
The black swan
In his book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb provides an insight into how crisis events occur, enabling the reader to reach a better understanding of the topic while empathizing and communicating more efficiently with the others.
The sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut, well-known for his black comedy, debates over existential questions in regards to free will, destiny, and the meaning of life.
This is exactly the kind of lecture one needs in order to get his mind off what is happening around.