"Gold is not a treasure but a book is a treasure. Everything is empty and good is not empty."
I seldom see someone say that reading is not good, but I rarely see someone reading a good book.
Good books, good reading, and good reading are all very scarce.
The role of good books
Basically, there is a book that can answer every puzzle we encounter.
Because your confusion is not unique, there are experts who have solved it and written it into a book.
It is impossible for us to know too many experts, but we can read his books.
The works of Franz Kafka are known around the world for exploring themes of human existence. He devoted himself to writing, often through the night, neglecting his own health, which made him die at the age of 40. Similarly, Lu Yao, who wrote "The Ordinary World", lived only two years longer than Kafka.
They put so much effort into writing a book, regardless of the cost, because they feel it is important to convey their own insights, and they feel that doing so can help others.
In this sense, a good book that we read in a few days may be the painstaking efforts of an expert for several years. Reading a good book is communicating with a scholar and expert who has profound attainments in a certain field. Reading their books allows us to quickly establish a logical and clear cognition that is consistent with reality, instead of suffering Can't figure it out.
For example, most of us do not have the opportunity to understand Deng Xiaoping, nor have the opportunity to communicate with Fu Gaoyi, but we can read his "Deng Xiaoping Era", from the perspective of a world-class expert, and surpass 99.99% of the world's people. Level, a true and comprehensive understanding of Deng Xiaoping.
Fu Gaoyi is a well-known American Sinologist and expert on China. In 2000, 70-year-old Fu Gaoyi retired from Harvard University and hoped to be able to do so
“做一些能有所贡献并能延续的事”. After that, he spent ten years writing "The Era of Deng Xiaoping", which gave a panoramic description of Deng Xiaoping's ups and downs in his life and the road of China's reform and opening up. In order to write this book, Fu Gaoyi conducted a large amount of data collection, interviews and interviews, traveled to several places where Deng Xiaoping lived or worked, and conducted detailed research on the materials to ensure the accuracy of the materials as much as possible. Li Xin, then editor-in-chief of Sanlian Bookstore, said: "This book can tell readers where China's development path came from and where it is going."
Fu Gaoyi
Another example: the vast majority of us do not have a comprehensive and profound understanding of the development of human society, but if you carefully read "The Enlightenment Now" written by Pinker, you can have the understanding of the world's greatest thinker. Know.
"The Enlightenment Now" (The Enlightenment Now) is a best-selling book written by Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. It mainly discusses the progress of human civilization and the superiority of modern society. In this book, Pinker expounds the progress of modern society in many aspects, such as living standards, life expectancy, health, wealth, security, human rights, etc., through a series of data and facts. He believed that these advances had their roots in the ideas and values of the Enlightenment, such as reason, liberty, equality, humanism,
正是这些基本的思想，促进了科技、经济、政治等各方面的飞速发展etc.
pink and his wife
where are the good books
The only thing we are confused about is: we don't know which one is an expert and which one is a good book.
Because our vision is limited, among the friends around us, there are not many who love to read. Even if there are one or two, what they read may not be what you are interested in.
And those best-selling books are more the result of marketing and publicity, and may not really be good books. Sometimes I buy a so-called best-selling book, but find that it is not as good as the publicity.
What we need is a book that is full of wit and makes people think deeply and benefit a lot.
The best books of this kind are all in the liberal arts category.
The so-called liberal arts books refer to books on social sciences, humanities, philosophy, history, psychology, and science.
这类书，你只要读够100本，自然会看透这个纷繁的世界，自然会进入思维的高级层次。
你对这个世界的高层次认知，自然会“涌现”出来。
read together
Sometimes when I see a good book, I can't help admiring it, but I don't know who to share it with.
Where are those who love reading as much as myself?
I have always hoped to have a group full of people who love to read and share.
I hope that I can continue to discover good books in the group, constantly acquire new knowledge and inspire friends.
I hope there is a group where only books are recommended, only books are discussed, and only book reviews and opinions are shared.
Fortunately, I have such a group now. There are not many people, but there are big names, big cows, book writers, book reviewers, and more people who are willing to share in the book club.
If you are like me and want to share, you can try to reply to " Boya ", although I can't guarantee that you can add it.
Because this group has expectations for everyone's sharing.
Text｜Guan Guan