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WHY READ?

Why should one read?

Many people on the internet or otherwise say that we should read books also we have heard the stories that most successful people read lots of books. It's claimed that Bill Gates reads about 50 books in a year and there are many other similar stories.

In this video, I want to give my perspective on reading I am not an avid reader but I call it my habit, I have read close to around 8 to 10 books till this point, and one thing I can say for sure is that every book has changed or given me a new perspective to look at the world.

For example, My Experiment With Truth-autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was one of my earliest books, seeing the life of Mahatma through his eyes is very different. There are many behaviors, cultural practices, and attitudes I relate to and also many that I cannot relate to like he got married at the age of 13 that book was an inspiration for me. The recent book I read was 'Sapiens- a brief history of Humankind' this is my favorite book till now going through 'How Sapiens evolved', 'How evolution supports numbers over the quality of life of individual',' How humans can corporate at such a large scale, 'How stories are very important part of Sapiens', answering such amazing questions and also talking about religion, money, power, etc this book is a review on humans from a very scientific and fascinating perspective.

For me, books provide different perspectives to look at the world though every perspective is not completely wholesome but having as many as we can help us in different situations in life. Whether you gain this perspective from books, movies, stories, or whatever source does not matter. For some, books are that source for some it's movies for some it's both. In the end, having an immense number of perspectives and knowing that there are many different possibilities, and life stories way beyond our confined thoughts is important.



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