She said: "If a person doesn't study, her values have to be decided by relatives and friends."
The books you read will eventually blend into your life and affect your understanding of people and things. You are no longer confined to a small world, but you can travel around the world, meet different people, read different stories and accept different opinions. When you read hundreds of books, it is equivalent to experiencing all kinds of life. In this process, you will form your own way of looking at problems and your own values.
Reading should be regarded as the highest return on investment.
I just started watching a documentary about Bill Gates, Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, and one detail impressed me deeply.
Bill Gates likes reading very much, and he reads very fast. No matter how busy he is at work, he keeps the habit of reading a book every week. If he goes on holiday or business trip, he always likes to take some books with him.
If you read more books, you will find similarities in information, knowledge and way of thinking. Because the more information you have, when you read a similar concept, you can quickly call other information in your mind. It is relatively easy to understand new information with digested information, and these information have been internalized into knowledge points one by one.
This should be one of the reasons why Bill Gates reads so fast.
There are some things that we may not realize in this life, but reading other people's stories is like being there, which makes us think about what choices and changes we will make in that environment.
Reading books and watching movies are highly focused things. In just 2 hours, you can experience other people's lives, read other people's stories and see your own predicament. Reading has a great influence on people. At some point when you grow up, you may be experiencing something similar to the hero in the book, and even he is facing an abyss much worse than you, but he can climb out and embrace life.
We can always gain strength and confidence from such stories. There is always a moment when reading, which can make your eyes shine.
The process of reading is active learning. We should internalize the information and knowledge mentioned in the book into our own cognition after thinking and understanding. When you encounter something you don't understand and disagree with, go and see what others say and how to prove your point of view.
Reading is a fascinating life. If you see a bigger world, more ways of life and better possibilities in the book, you won't be obsessed with someone, something, a success or failure. For many problems in life, can we be less anxious, such as: Do we have to get married and have children before the age of 30? Go to the big city or go back to your hometown? I'm in my twenties, and I still don't know what I like.
We don't need to live the same life. The perfect life in the eyes of others has nothing to do with us. The important thing is that you gradually know what kind of person you are, what you like and what kind of life you want, and work hard and strive for what you want. These are often not what you want to know. You must see a certain life before you can pursue it. Reading is the solution to this problem.
How long has it been since you studied hard?
Studying hard is one of the most efficient self-appreciation habits. Don't stop, because you never know which book will change you and reconstruct your life.