“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
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Epictetus
Boxing up books to give to the local thrift stores is a never ending chore. Articles like this reinforce the value of reading but collecting books can be taken too far, i.e., hoarding behavior. I quit buying books at least a year ago. What slows me down is going over the table of contents of hundreds of books wanting to keep what seems current or somehow useful. Eyestrain is the big take away, LOL.
Reading Books Builds Good Thinking Habits
“Books are the training weights of the mind” –Epictetus
When you read, you spend time in a relaxed meditative state ...
(The
definition of alienation is the state of a person who has disengaged
themselves or have been alienated from the attentions from a person,
place, or thing they once enjoyed.)*
Reading provides mental stimulation
Reading helps you relax and sit quietly in pleasant solitude.
Reading helps you develop critical thinking.
“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
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