Reading books
While sitting reading a book, looking at the stack of books I have accumulated over the years, I realized a significant, interesting and quite funny change. Since a few people asked me what I was reading, I conveniently wrote this post.
When I was young (under 12), I mostly read children's comics like Dragon Ball, Doraemon, and occasionally a few fairy tales and children's stories.
From 12 to 18, I started to switch to romantic school literature and short stories by famous writers like Nam Cao, Vu Trong Phung, etc.
I still read a lot of comics. During this period, I read a lot of shounen like One Piece, Naruto, Bleach,
From 18 to 25, I started reading self-help genres, mental seeds - oh, I mean, the soul is like the key to success, rich people's habits, 10 habits that lead to success, psychological manipulation techniques (hahaha), bullshit skills to become a father of the world, ...
I read professional books but just watched the flowers while riding a horse. Partly because I was lazy, partly because I didn't have enough energy to read.
I still read comics regularly. Hahaha.
This period was extremely high because I absorbed too many mental seeds into my body but didn't do anything, or actually didn't have the ability to do anything. Where did the ability come from when I was daydreaming all day without doing anything but wanting to eat.
25 to 28. During this period, I started to deal with real-life games. Especially the ones between people, so I read a lot about philosophy, theology, psychology, management, books about human structure. At first, it was quite exciting, like I had grasped the truth of life and was about to become a master. But after a while, it didn't develop much and became stagnant.
Because the book simply stopped at describing the moves and the writers were all experts with decades of experience and had masters who trained them since childhood. So the same action that the book wrote, the same move, the same result, but if I did exactly the same thing, I failed.
I still read comics regularly but switched from shounen to seinen, a dark deep genre where the main character often got beaten up.
So I realized that I lacked internal strength - experience + proper training and practice methods + countless bad habits - shortcomings that needed to be fixed.
So from then on (28th until now), I searched for specialized books, detailed discussions with high technicality in the subjects and aspects that I liked, then delved into them and practiced. Especially the book series with high practical - experiential nature how to do things, how to make things happen in real life how to make delicious coffee, how to cook delicious food, how to... in general, play - do anything, just go online to find some English books to read. Read about 1-2 dozen books and you will understand the general picture.
For me, I don't read philosophy anymore but instead read some technical books with clear data and deeper specialized knowledge such as think fast and slow, gift of fear,...
Oh, I still read comics. Sometimes I re-read the series I read when I was young. Still good.
Recently, I've also read some classic novels by Kim Dung or other classic - famous books (often translated into movies).
Ps:
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The book series that can cause the most intoxication is Seo Hep, the seed of mental illness with its distortion of causal relationships and increase of desire - expectation (desire, expectation) while lacking a list of methods and necessary conditions. For example, if you want to cook goat hotpot, you need money to buy goat and other ingredients and steps to make goat hotpot. It's not like trying to think about goat hotpot and then imitating the style of someone who knows how to make goat hotpot, then you will have goat hotpot to eat.
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The type of book that can easily cause you to be high is philosophy, theology, psychology, etc.
It's a bit sensitive so I won't go into detail about my personal opinion, just read for reference.
But roughly, when you read this line, it's similar to the blind fortune teller and the elephant. You can only "touch and feel" a part. That's why this person reads philosophy a and then turns around to argue with the person who reads philosophy b. Actually, whoever wrote the story of the blind fortune teller and the elephant is really great. He knows stuff, hahaha.
The safe way to approach reading this line is: you should have real experience with it before - or while reading + you must be very humble to remind yourself that your understanding is very limited.
Having real experience + practice to “open your eyes” and “see”. Humbly reminding yourself of your limited perception is to know that the elephant is very big and great, what you “see” is only a small part.
Knowing that you don’t know is a very, very, very important thing to know.
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A little bonus is that I have a habit of collecting art picture books. I have been reading this since I was young. For me personally, this is a form of healthy entertainment that helps increase awareness of aesthetic perception - thinking - emotions - desires of each class of people - through each period of time.
4. This is just my reading journey, NOT HOW TO READ BOOKS. Whatever the fengs read, that’s up to them, how would I know. Hahaha
