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There is a very strange phenomenon in life.
Many parents like to say to their children that they should read more books, read good books, and list the advantages of reading, one after another.
However, when I have time, I don’t watch TV, but I just take my phone, and I feel like I have forgotten what I have told my child.
Maybe some parents think that their children are at the best time to study, so they should cherish this period of time and work hard to change their future destiny.
But for older people, isn’t learning and reading important?
Tara, Idaho, USA, lived in a waste yard with her parents since she was a child. She had never been to school and did not know a few words. But at the age of 17, she suddenly began to study hard and finally got into a doctorate at Cambridge University .
The reason why Tara started to learn was just because his brother said before leaving: "There is a world outside that only you can see if you study."
includes Xu Xiaochao, a deliveryman who had been on the news. At the age of 30, he only went to high school, but he did not give up improving himself. In his spare time, he picked up books and mobile phones to learn English. In order to practice speaking, he often activities in places where foreigners often appear, and communicated generously with foreigners.
After Xu Xiaochao's continuous practice, he was able to speak English fluently. Because of his persistence, he has known many interesting people, and changing his life is no longer difficult.
It seems that people always do this. They like to educate the next generation to study hard, but forget that in addition to children, they also have themselves.
Lifelong learning is the state that a person should have.
Especially when you get older, the more you should understand the importance of learning. Reading more is the only way to achieve yourself, because these good books you read are more useful to people as older.
avoid being eliminated by the times
Buffett was asked when he had the idea of doing business, he said:
"Aged 7, I read a book called "A Thousand Ways to Make a Thousand Dollars", and the idea of doing business gradually emerged in my mind."
From then on, one of the things that Buffett loves to do is to read books, read when he has time, and take the time to read when he has no time.
includes after success, he still spent a lot of time reading, getting up before seven o'clock every day, reading the book first, and doing other things day after day.
It is also through reading that he can understand the oil market in a timely manner and make huge profits; it is through reading that he can accurately grasp the current situation and make the right choice.
There is a passage in "The Art of Life":
"People must read all the time, otherwise they will be stingy and stubborn, and stubborn, and the common people will be full of people. A person's backwardness and pedanticness is caused by refusing to read all the time."
Young people are difficult to be eliminated by the times. They are the main force of the times, so that they can control the direction of progress.
But at a certain age, I don’t take the initiative to learn many things myself, and I don’t take the initiative to read many books myself. The result of slowing down the times one step again and again is that I end up being behind the times.
Only the person who is good at reading can keep up with the times and not be easily left behind the craze.
Solve problems in life
Do you still remember the scene when you were in school?
You may be overwhelmed when you see a series of difficult problems; when you see Chengshan's papers, you feel that the pressure of living is no more than this.
But when I really became an adult, I suddenly felt that many problems were not difficult to solve when I was a student, but many problems about life.
is like life choices, the adjustment of husband and wife relationships, the improvement of life, unexpected resolution, etc., which cannot be solved through some skills. There is no standard answer, nor is there a teacher who can guide you.
The only thing that can guide you is actually books.
Reminds of the experience of the author Kishi Michiro in "'s Courage to Being Hate ".
Once upon a time, he had to stay in bed all day because of his illness. That period was the darkest moment in his life. He didn't know how to get out and how to face himself.
Even the doctor's intervention did not completely get him out of the predicament, but what really cured him was books.
He has read too many books and seen many people's lives, accompanying many people in the books out of difficulties. Those people touch his thoughts and occupy his heart.
Finally, like the protagonist of a certain book, he chose to accept himself, face himself, and welcome the future.
It is also because of this experience that he wrote himself into a book, hoping to heal those who have shared experiences with him, but those who do not read, will never feel the power contained in the book.
Bai Yansong said: "You will encounter many troubles, and suffering will torture you. However, if you read too much, you will read wisdom. You can always face all kinds of sudden sufferings properly and correctly." The power of
books may not appear at the moment, but when you really encounter a life crisis, those books that have been integrated into your flesh and blood will burst out with new vitality.
The older a person is, the more he needs this kind of strength to fight accidents, face life, and welcome hope.
agrees with one of the views of Lin Yutang:
"People who have not developed the habit of reading are confined by the world in front of them in terms of time and space."
used to think that reading is to get better grades and get into better study, so as to make it easier for them to find a job.
But the older I get, the clearer I know. Reading is actually to make one’s life not mediocre or messy.
Life is like a boat, the book is rudder , it is also a sail, it can lead you to where you want to go, see a bigger world, and meet a better self.
I hope we can all see our different lives in books.
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