“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hello, in this section, first of all, I will present you the various books I have read and update them as I read new books in time. In the next part, I will try to convey what the books mean to me. So you too will be able to explore and follow my mental library:
📚 Books I’ve Read
✅ The First and Right Step to the Habit of Reading
Many people who are new to books tend to abandon books when they first meet them because they are not suitable enough for their level and interests. However, given the fact that books differ as much as the creatures in the ocean, it is clear that this attitude is not plausible. The main reason why books are so diverse is that they are only human products. Therefore, they are at least as complex and diverse as humans. Then a book can be found for every thought, mood, knowledge and field of knowledge. A person who wants to read a book analyzes his own wishes and desires, mental state, thoughts and needs well and according to him, finding the closest and appropriate book to this personal situation and attempting to read it allows him to meet the book in a healthier way and strengthens his bond with it.
🤔 So what is a book, what are the benefits of reading books?
Each book is a life experience; how old the author has written a book, how many different experiences he has had, how much he has been fed, from various sources, how many years he has been in thought work, how skillful he is, he surrounds them with such a rich experience…
For example, if an author has written a book at the age of 50 and has had an intense experience and transferred them in his book, and if we can finish this book in a week, we will get the outputs of the author’s quality of thought, the way he questions & expresses, the words he uses and his 50 years of experience in a week. This is one of the factors that makes books the most attractive to me. Life is short 🙂 We have only one chance of life, one shot chance. Then he should evaluate it well and live quite wisely. In this case, books become an important guide and resource.
Each of the books has an idea about a subject, each of them either takes you away to other lands, gives you lessons by showing you the mistakes that you should not fall into, or teaches you methods and methods. Some are full of emotion, some can be used for wisdom, and some can be used purely for distractibility. But whatever your purpose, it’s clear that you can find a book for that purpose. Just identify your need correctly and know how to reach the right book.
✍🏻 Words, Authors and Thoughts…
People are born, grow and die, and in the process they use language to communicate with each other in order to live together. In addition to being a means of communication for people, language is also the building block of thought and gives direction and shape to the production of thought. So much so that when various languages are examined, it is seen that there are differences in thought, reasoning and logic from language to language, and as a result of these, many different cultures, arts, literature and even values differences have formed. Although these vary from language to language, they can be seen even among people with different depths in the same language. Thus, various subcultures can be formed even within cultures. The quality of language, and therefore the quality of thought, goes from the weakest to the highest…
One cannot imagine what one has not experienced.
If you have never been outside the environment in which you were born and raised and where you live, if you have only lived with people with similar average and have not applied for any education other than life experience, if you have similar habits and feed from similar sources with those around you, that is, if you are average and mediocre, if you are mediocre, if 500 words are spoken around you, you can only speak 500 words and express yourself as much as the expressions you see around you. So what does 500 words mean? Your quality of thought, therefore your verbal skill, your conceptual depth, your ability to question & analyze, thus your imagination; As a result, we can say that your awareness, and even the point you can reach in this life by going a little further, is limited to 500 words.
In fact, there are many concepts in this life that do not have a verbal equivalent in our minds, right? We often don’t even realize that we don’t know the definitions of these concepts until we don’t have to express them. And yet we can imagine and demand them. So how can we fully comprehend what we cannot examine verbally, how can we reconcile it with our self and transform it into a part of ourselves…
Thoughts are limited to words.
So, what is the relationship between this and the book and vocabulary?
If a person wants to go beyond his comfort zone of 500 words and optimize himself in all the qualities mentioned, the first thing he needs to do is to go beyond these limits and to take advantage of the opportunities he has in useful areas that he does not know and to create opportunities for self-improvement. As mentioned above , books are very useful tools in this regard. Just as when you meet different people, you meet many different thoughts, acquire many different information and perspectives, and witness different forms of expression, books are actually a meeting, a conversation in this way. The author conveys the thoughts that pass through his mind to you in a certain context, and you experience a conversation with your thoughts by interacting with the author’s thoughts with your existing thoughts. In this respect,
Every book is a meeting opportunity.
So much so that you will even meet people who are not yet living, you will have the opportunity to meet the best in the world one-on-one, listen to them, see what kind of mindset they have, have the chance to be affected by this, and perhaps you will develop a similar mindset and carry their souls on you in your age.
Although each person differs in certain characteristics, it is a highly variable dynamic entity. Everything we are exposed to turns us towards the elements to which we are exposed. (I’ll talk about this at length later). So we must expose ourselves to whatever we want to become, and to the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviors and in short, the humanity of those who are similar to our goals brings us closer to them…
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