If you have been watching this channel for a while, you probably already know what a
horrible student i have been in school.
I wasn’t only getting bad grades, but I hated education in general.
I am not sure why, but surprisingly i have viewed books as the most useless and boring
thing out there.
Of course my parents always advised me to read books in my free time if i want to have
a good future, but unfortunately it didn't work out.
The idea that one day I will be advising others to read books would never cross my mind.
And I am not the only one who like that because, judging by our modern educational system,
its absolutely normal to develop this hatred towards books!
But once upon a time, I was feeling pretty depressed, I kind of hated my life, everything
was going to the wrong direction, and I was this kind of a kid who never shared anything
with his parents, so i kept everything within my self and that made me extremely anxious.
Fortunately there was this book in my house that caught my attention, its called the 7
habits of highly effective people, I am not sure how exactly it ended up in my house.
So I had nothing else to do, i grabbed it and simply started turning the pages without
even looking at the authors name, I came across the chapter - Be Proactive.
And the author starter talking about 2 different kinds of people.
One is reactive who constantly complains about everything, they are focused on the things
that they cannot control like the people around them, the system, the government, everything
that you can complain but cant control all.
On the other hand, there are another other kind of people who are proactive, they do
not deny the fact that its difficult to deal with certain people or the fact that the educational
system is outdated!
But there is nothing they can do about it!
Thats why, They only focus on the things that they can control, If they are constantly having
relationship problems, instead of blaming the other person, they will ask the question,
what can I do to improve this relationship, what is under my control?
well, I can work on improving my social skills or learn how to react to insults for example!
Thats when i realised that, the problem wasn’t in my school or the people around me.
I simply was focusing on the wrong things all this time, I wasn’t asking the right
question!
As I little teenager, I didn't really understand much about life then but this simple lesson
completely turned around my life and literally made it a hundred times better!
And since then I have never stopped reading books.
You will start reading books, only when you realize that it has a significant positive
impact on your life, so if you have picked up some wrong books in the past and you already
developed a negative perception about books, take my advice and give it another try and
read something thats worth reading and you will not regret it!
Unfortunately there is a wide spread misconception about books, we are taught that the more books
we read the better it is, thats why we try to read more and fast.
However its not always the best option.
Reading books is like eating, you do not try to eat more and fast because you will not
digest it properly and it could lead to a very negative consequences, thats why its
important to chew the food completely before you swallow it.
If you simply skim through the pages of the book, you will not get the real value of the
book and you will certainly think that books are useless.
Thats exactly whats happening with the school system, every single day, we are taught a
bunch of new facts about everything but no one really knows how are we going to use that
in the real life.
We spend countless numbers of hours memorising them, so that we can write them on a piece
of paper, but we cannot certainly remember them in few days!
Hence, focus on consuming less information but more valuable, I will leave a link below
to my favourite books, trust me after reading them, you will completely shift your perspective
about books.
in fact, there is a big difference, between reading a book, understanding the book and
finally implementing it.
I read some books couple of times like the 50th law by Robert Greene, because each time
when I read it, surprisingly i come across something absolutely new that I haven’t
noticed before.
Try to read a valuable book couple of times and you will be amazed by how much value you
have been missing.
Of course there are a lot of useless books as well, but that doesn’t mean you don't
have to read the good ones.
All what you need to do is to search for the right book first!
and who knows, you might find yourself suggesting others to read books like I am suggesting
to you now!
In case, if you are extremely busy and you absolutely don't have the time to read books,
then at least listen to audiobooks and the best place to get audiobooks is audible, which
link you can find in the description!
You can try it for free!
And now its your turn, What was the last book you have read,
Lets me know in the comments below!
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