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Three Great Lessons Taught By Three Great Books.
I have not always been a book lover, but since I became one I have allowed the inks of different authors take me into different worlds; the worlds of thrill, awe, comedy, pensiveness, and most of all, an incessant drive to become better.
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen [in How Reading Changed My Liff]
John Graham’s legal thrillers are, thrilling!. Danielle Steel’s fictions, plain captivating; and Robert Green’s state-of-the-art self-help, empowering.
In particular, I’m drawn to self-helps and strategies because at an earlier stage I had struggled with bringing down knowledge to the level of applying them in the little things of day to day living.
But isn’t this the very essence of reading. Learning new things that, if we can apply them to our lives, will bring growth. However, many books have failed to get the reader from the point of reading to the point of doing.
Aristotle in the preface of his original Book Of Virtues wrote,
"Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be…
