Well, I guess that I have touched on this before. I can recall some of my conversations about the importance of reading and books.
Well, it is tough to choose somewhere to start on this. I guess I will just start with a question. Why do we read books?
Well, there is so much we know already. But, the universe is vast and knowledge is endless. Or is it? Who knows? But, we are limited to what we know. On top of that, we have some ideas from the our past experience and others' experience that we are building on. Are those necessarily true?
Here comes the power of books!
It is in changing our perspective. I will recite something from H. Saadon "Only pavements stay still". What he means by that is that we should be adaptive to change and not only in our actions. But, even in our thoughts. When we read books, there are things which we don't agree with. That's where the trick is.
If you encounter this, are you going to change your perspective? Or, are you going to build a better foundation on your previous idea which was challenge by what the writer of that book was saying?
I am reaching towards the end here. There are some people which we know for years and we have built that self image about. If in matter of 5 to 10 years those people haven't changed a single perspective, is that a good or a bad thing? Are we stopping and asking if we are the same? If yes, do we need to change that?