Author: Insight Book Girl
If you don't eat, you're hungry, and if you don't read, you're stupid.
Lin Yutang once said: "Reading, you can open the Mao Plug, get rid of contempt, gain new knowledge, increase learning, broaden your knowledge, and cultivate your spirit." ”
Many times, the reason why people are trapped in narrow pain and constantly have troubles is that they read too little.
Limited by limited knowledge and cognition, there is not enough wisdom to solve life's problems.
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Reading is the antidote to all troubles.
The less people read, the more shallow their thinking, the easier it is to live in pain and live a difficult life.
Just as Mr. Yang Dai replied to the reader's famous quote:
"You're not having a good time, it's just because you think too much and read too little."
I know that a netizen has told his story.
Once, she went to interview for a job that she had long wanted, and she once thought that the interviewer would skip the professional knowledge of the work in order to test her comprehensive quality and chat with her.
Ask her what books she usually reads and which writer she likes.
Usually not reading books, she was suddenly asked to be confused, hurriedly said a few perfunctory words, said a few bestsellers on the market. In the panic, he also put on the title of the book and the author Zhang Guanli.
Halfway through the conversation, the other party told a joke, this joke quoted a historical allusion, but she did not understand at all, did not even know where the laughter point was, and could only squeeze out a trace of awkward smile next to it.
After the blow of that interview, she realized the importance of reading.
In the days that followed, she insisted on reading whenever she had free time.
Once, she had a fight with her partner and was so angry that she didn't sleep well for several nights.
Until she read a book about intimacy, a passage about the relationship between husband and wife, which made her suddenly enlightened and wanted to understand a lot of things.
The breath subsided, the mood was better, and the whole person was comfortable.
When she found that reading had cured many of the misfortunes in her life, she realized that she had lived a miserable and bad life before because she had read too little.
Life is often like this, the book is not read much, the knowledge is inevitably limited, and the result must be imprisoned by the world in front of you.
In the face of many problems, it is difficult to look at dialectically, and it is difficult to think openly.
If you encounter a little unhappiness, you are very easy to be negative and pessimistic, depressed, and trapped yourself in a low mood and can't get out.
There's a good passage in The Art of Living:
"People must read all the time, otherwise they will be stingy and stubborn, stubborn and vulgar, and a person's backwardness and pedantry are caused by their unwillingness to read all the time."
Only in the process of continuous reading, cultivating one's mind, can one get rid of vulgarity and stubbornness.
In this world, there is no one who lives without troubles, but reading is the best antidote.
02
Reading can heal the wounds of life.
There is a saying in "When You Learn to Be Alone": "A person's growth basically benefits from the books he reads." ”
Good reading can not only cure stupidity, but also cure the hardships of life, so that people continue to grow and transform.
The book "When You Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain" chronicles the inspiring true story of the girl Tara.
Tara was born into an extremely twisted family of origin.
Her father was paranoid and ignorant and did not allow her to go to school, and her mother was only promised and had no opinion.
Six older brothers and sisters, one of whom had violent tendencies, punched and kicked her at every turn.
Coupled with growing up in a remote and backward small mountain village, Tara's childhood was made entirely of scrap copper and rotten iron from the junkyard, where there was no reading, only the roar of cranes.
Before the age of 17, she had never stepped into a classroom.
Every day, in addition to raising pigs and feeding cattle, he helped his father sort the broken copper and rotten iron in the garbage dump, and then "wandered like a wild man in the mountains" .
But such a poor girl who crawled out of the garbage heap later became a doctor at Cambridge University and was named "Influential Person of the Year" by Time Magazine.
What changed her was precisely reading.
See your brother escape the mountains through reading, run to college and a better life.
Tara was affected and began to study, and she vowed to get rid of her difficult and isolated life.
With the accumulation of books day after day, she not only received an acceptance letter from a prestigious university, but also became a famous writer in the United States.
After flying out of the mountains by reading, out of the extreme family, and completing self-redemption, Tara said with great emotion:
"I've been cowardly, broken, self-doubting, something rotten inside me, stinking. Until I escaped from the mountains and opened up another world, a new world that books had given me. ”
Reading is a good medicine to cure the hardships of life.
Its benefits may not be immediate, but it will definitely affect you and help you become a better version of yourself in your accumulated perseverance.
Writer Herzen said:
"Books are the most patient and pleasant companions, and they will not abandon you in any difficult and difficult moment."
The purpose of reading is not to help you achieve much.
It's about giving you an inner strength when you're dragged into a quagmire by life.
Let you have the courage and confidence to heal the hardships of life, and push you closer to a better life.
03
Reading is the best practice in life.
Pushkin once said: "The influence of man is short and weak, but the influence of books is extensive and profound." ”
The more you read, the bigger your heart, the wider your vision, and the more you see that there is no one in the world who is not a good person.
Since he was a child, Sanmao has loved to read, sitting and watching, lying down, lying on his stomach, and even hiding in the cemetery on rainy days.
The words in the book not only gave her the courage to wander the world, but also broadened her mind.
In the process of going to the Sahara Desert, no matter who she meets or what she does, she can calmly cope with it with an inclusive and understanding attitude.
Seeing the lack of materials, the barren and desolate desert, she did not abandon it, but regarded it as an excellent habitat for fun and full of exuberant vitality.
When she met ignorant and ignorant villagers in backward areas, she did not resent them, but felt that they were simple and kind, and they could be good friends.
Even the neighbors who often asked her for all kinds of things, she could give back to the kindness without hesitation, calling them "neighbors".
Those words she had read had long been melted into her blood, giving her the grace and mind of a hundred rivers.
It can tolerate the imperfections of the world and the inadequacies of others, but also has good thoughts and sees the best side of all things.
As she herself said:
"Many times, I may think that many of the books I have read have become smoke clouds and will no longer be remembered.
In fact, they are still latent, in temperament, in conversation, in the endlessness of the mind, of course, may also be revealed in life and words. ”
Those seemingly useless reading experiences often determine your mindset and vision for a lifetime.
Let you not be paranoid, not narrow- and can measure the world with different eyes and see the scenery that others in life can't see.
Zhou Guoping said: "A person who has the habit of reading also has a special vision of the world, and even has a colorful world that belongs to him. ”
Reading is the best practice in a person's life.
The more you read, the higher the realm, the larger the pattern, and the broader the mind.
The more you read, the more you can understand the world and discover the beauty of the world.
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Writer Zhou Ling said in "Cognitive Awakening":
"Reading is not a repetitive action of scanning the black words on a white paper.
Every time I read a book, I'm actually doing a celebrity interview, talking to a top expert.
Reading is the most advanced growth strategy at the lowest cost, and it is the best way for everyone to improve themselves. ”
Reading is the lowest threshold of nobility, it can make your spirit comfort, your thoughts sublimated, and your soul purified.
Let you be more calm and happy, less shallow and ignorant, and free from narrow pain and trouble.
Like it, may you be in the midst of books and ink, moisturizing the dullness of life and enriching the rest of your life.