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.

Books are Thoughts Immortalized

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.

Books transcend Time and Space

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.

The Wisdom of the Past

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.

Reading the Right Way

<blockquote>“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies; The man who never reads lives only one.”</blockquote> George R. R. Martin from A Dance with Dragons

A Thousand Lives

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Unfortunately , I think this part of the equation is often neglected. 
<h3>Is It About Right or Wrong? </h3>
Most of us learn to read in school, and when we do, it's for one of two reasons: to memorize or to critique - both with the intent of choosing right or wrong. 
This works in school, and it teaches in its own way, but unfortunately, when reading in the real world, this kind of mindset cheats us out of knowledge . 
I know people who have gone through this process, been seduced by it, and then feel that if they can't remember or memorize all they read, they are wasting their time, hence discouraging them from further reading . 
Now, having the focus to absorb what you need is critical and so is having a filter in place to detect if what you're reading is factually wrong . 
That said , anytime you read something with the mindset that you are there to extract what is right and what is wrong , you are by default limiting how much you can get out of a part icular piece of writing . You're boxing an experience that has many dimensions into just two . 
One of the things that become increasingly clear to anybody that reads a lot is that if you were to only read books that you agree with a 100% or those that are worth memorizing in full, you would soon run out of options . 
<h3>The Real Joy of Reading</h3>
Where, then, is perspective? If we shouldn't recall all we consume, nor wear a lens of criticism, where exactly does the value in reading lie? 
In this case, the only filter worth having is the one that distinguishes between what is relevant and what is not ; what matters and what doesn't . 
When you filter by right or wrong, not only are you trying to paint a whole with the smaller component of its parts, but you're also limiting what you understand. Who is to say that there isn't a lesson in what is wrong? Or more importantly, who is to say that what you assume to be right or wrong is just a current bias that, one day, you will come to readjust? 
Any time I reread a book that has been important to me in the past, I always come back with new lessons. Most books contain more than one idea, and they say different things in different places . 
I can count many instances where I have arrogantly dismissed something that I thought I knew, or that didn't make sense to me , or that I judged prematurely - assuming knowledge of right and wrong - only to learn that with a new mindset and a sharper and more nuanced point of view, that something contained profound wisdom . 
The better questions to ask are always: What is right about this ? Even if this isn't what I believe or value or see as true, why does someone else believe it? 
The beauty of this mindset is that you don't actually need to filter this consciously . Y ou just need to decide that it's okay not to agree, and it's fine to overlook what doesn't make sense . From there, your mind will automatically filter for what is relevant and what is not . 
When it does, you'll know - it'll change you in a way memorization can't. 
<h3>The Takeaway</h3>
Reading isn't just a delightful hobby. If done well, it's also a virtue . It teaches you more than just how to live and what to do; i t teaches you how to see . 
That said, in order for a book to have this effect, we do also have to do our part. We have come in with the correct mindset , and we have to put ourselves in a perceptual state that is okay with fine-tuning itself . 
Or as George R.R. Martin puts it in A Dance with Dragons: 
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Reading is telepathy, and a book is the most powerful technology invented. Homer, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Woolf, Hemingway - these are names without a living body. We can't talk to them, nor touch them, but their thoughts are immortalized through the written word. Aristotle's logic, Kepler's astronomy, Newton's

There Are Two Ways to Read - One Is Useless

Books are Thoughts Immortalized

Books transcend Time and Space

The Wisdom of the Past

Reading the Right Way

A Thousand Lives

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