Have you ever had this experience: When a strong desire for change arises in your heart, you will unconsciously embark on the path of exploration, even without external guidance. On this road, there is a magical portal - reading, which is both a channel for change and an entrance to growth.
The real world is nothing but a projection of our inner world. If we want to seek change in this projection, we must first start with our cognition. Reading is the most direct and easiest way to improve cognition. It is low-cost and extremely efficient, giving every ordinary person the opportunity to reach the threshold of growth.
I myself am one of the biggest beneficiaries of reading. From college to work, I read only a few books per year on average, but it was these books that helped me realize the transformation of my life. Therefore, whether it is in the article or the video, I recommend everyone to read it.
So, why do we read? What is the meaning of reading?
Reading allows us to escape the limitations of the real environment. As sensory creatures, our attention is easily bound by the people and things around us, causing our lives to become narrow and limited. But with reading, we can easily break out of this limitation and use very little time and money to get to know amazing people, uphold great ideas, and experience wonderful experiences.
We don’t need to travel a long way, visit each other’s homes, and we don’t need to take into account the other person’s time and patience. Because their thoughts have been condensed and recorded in books. We can also communicate with thinkers from thousands of years ago through books. How exciting is this freedom to break through the limitations of time and space!
Where steps cannot be measured, words can; where sight cannot reach, words can still do it. If we don't read, we will be limited to what we see and hear and a mediocre life. But reading, especially reading good books continuously, can allow us to live in a "circle of friends" with the top thinkers at home and abroad, both ancient and modern, and live several wonderful lives in a lifetime.
In this era of information explosion, although information is everywhere, the depth, density, systematicness and credibility of their knowledge are completely incomparable with rigorous and professional books. Therefore, in my opinion, a book is like a great person, and reading is like chatting with an awesome person. This is simply a luxury for us ordinary people.
If we pay more attention, we will find that almost all books are about the process of how people look at things and make decisions. After seeing more, we can use their brilliant perspective to improve our ability to choose. And our destiny is formed by the collection of these choices. If your choice changes the trajectory of your destiny, it will naturally change.
Of course, everyone may have their own answer to the meaning of reading. But no matter what, you have to find your own meaning, even if other people's opinions can touch you. For example, Li Xiaolai once put forward a point of view: Reading is a very expensive activity. Those who can afford to read are nobles. Because reading requires enough time, energy and practice to fully understand.
When I first heard this point of view, I thought it was a bit subversive because I have always believed that reading is a very low-cost growth activity. But if you think about it carefully, they are actually not contradictory. The low cost of studying means that the barriers to entry are low, while the high cost of studying means that the cost of studying well is high. The reality is indeed like this. Time alone defeats many adults, let alone experience and practice.
But this also gave me another meaning of reading, that is, I discovered that I was actually a "noble". If you want to counterattack and become a member of the reading aristocracy, you might as well set all your free time as reading time by default. Whether it’s at home, at a bus station or in the subway, it’s cool to have a book on hand at any time, at least much cooler than browsing on your phone.
Finally, let me end this article by borrowing another point of view from Li Xiaolai: When traveling, the most you can meet are good or interesting people, but in books, they are all smart people. If it is difficult for us to meet so many smart people in life, then swimming in books is far more interesting than swimming in mountains and rivers! Let’s start the reading journey together and dance with smart people!
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