|| Open Book
I tell you. When you first look to open a book, browsing through its contents page, you have already done 90 percent of the work. Keep focusing on that contents page. It serves as a mind map and mind navigation tool before you even open the book’s first chapter.
Most naturally, when you meditate on the headings of those chapters and subheadings, some thoughts will come to mind.
You either:
1. already know what is going to be said
2. probably have a slight idea, but your curiosity helps you to extrapolate what you think might be there or
3. have no clue what it can possibly be about and now you are adamant to find out what is there.
This is the first step to learning something new; building one’s curiosity.
It is curiosity that drives our learning, whether we think it or not.
For all the mind is trying to do is fill gaps and bridge patches of knowledge.
It is why I tell you, by meditating on the contents page, you have already done most of the work.
On reading the book, all that you are going to do is prove your first assumptions to be right or wrong or inconclusive against the author’s findings. That is, whether you agree, disagree, or take an indifferent stance with the author’s view.
But, of course, some authors still leave you hanging at the end of the reading trip. All he does is build your greater curiosity. Now, you go in search of his other books.
Here is the trick. Don’t continue reading. Change the book. For he will keep leading you down that road, keeping your curiosity unsatiated. Better search for the true author who will just tell you in one piece. For he writes his script in just wanting to tell you his story. No strings attached. For his very life is an open book.
14.12.22
Most naturally, when you meditate on the headings of those chapters and subheadings, some thoughts will come to mind.
You either:
1. already know what is going to be said
2. probably have a slight idea, but your curiosity helps you to extrapolate what you think might be there or
3. have no clue what it can possibly be about and now you are adamant to find out what is there.
This is the first step to learning something new; building one’s curiosity.
It is curiosity that drives our learning, whether we think it or not.
For all the mind is trying to do is fill gaps and bridge patches of knowledge.
It is why I tell you, by meditating on the contents page, you have already done most of the work.
On reading the book, all that you are going to do is prove your first assumptions to be right or wrong or inconclusive against the author’s findings. That is, whether you agree, disagree, or take an indifferent stance with the author’s view.
But, of course, some authors still leave you hanging at the end of the reading trip. All he does is build your greater curiosity. Now, you go in search of his other books.
Here is the trick. Don’t continue reading. Change the book. For he will keep leading you down that road, keeping your curiosity unsatiated. Better search for the true author who will just tell you in one piece. For he writes his script in just wanting to tell you his story. No strings attached. For his very life is an open book.
14.12.22