Extracting wisdom

in #life6 years ago

How do you do it? What's the fastest way and does it even matter?!

I like to read books that teach you something and most of my reading list is now non-fiction. I found there are a lot of books on wisdome and how-tos, that are not self-help. Books based on life well lived or on science or simply a collection of biographical example of how to do this or that. The general idea is that some will resonate with you and stick.

Here are two books that I'm reading now:

The art of the good life

Basically 52 small chapters that make some good point based on mostly fine tuning our thinking and not falling pray to our built-in biases. It's a neat idea but in practice it falls short here and there for me. I will maybe expand on this but some of the advice is simply just not something that resonates with me...or even worse: I am strongly against. I guess life is not a math equation.
Anyway there are some good stuff in there and I always enjoy reading about how biases play with your minds. My favorite take away from this book is a quote from Daniel Kahneman:

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it
This is knows as the focusing illusion and how people tend to narrowly focus on a specific thing and it becomes much more important than it really is. Like buying a great pair of shoes and imagining how nicer things would be with them on...but like, if your life is already shitty that's not gonna fix it, right?
About half the book is quotes, especially from Buffet and Munger, which I am crazy about!
And lead me to the second book:

This one I am not finished with yet but it's once again a book that starts with the genes and evolution and what is built into us and how to fight the mistakes or at least be aware of them. It's a better book and I'm gonna read one more from this guy as well when I'll finally found it.
I guess this book can be captured in this opening quote:

"A man who committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
Confucius

But can you correct what you do not perceive? And are all mistakes, mistake?
The answer lie in wisdom and is damn hard to acquire.
Can books really help?

My personal experience so far kind of tells me that yes, but no..
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I think the book is a storehouse of knowledge, and I also read a lot of books to make my reference material in writing, the book is a window of science, and a great writer are reader heartily

Great to know your thoughts on life, and in my opinion the books can help if you think it will, books will not help if you will not think, so in life our thoughts are really important while when we are pursuing something because at last our thoughts really drives us. Thanks for sharing and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂

I think in western civilization we overestimate education.
In adult life we are target of too much information and I find reading books add more stress and information that is not needed.

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