Read The Books - Learn From Them

Other than word of mouth, it is the books that have transited the knowledge from one century to other century. If we know what happened 1000 years ago, it is because of the books which have the documented material. There is also word of mouth which mainly translates into a tradition sooner than later. This is because of the lack of proper communication through words of mouth. Previously also I did write about the game where word of mouth is transmitted and how the final delivered message might be completely different than what had started. I will leave that topic here. Lets go to the books. 

Books are things where people have written their experience, their thoughts, fiction, non-fiction, etc. and through this the knowledge has passed on to the other generations. There are religious books like Bhagwad Gita, Quran, Bible, etc. Then there are books written by different authors. In the recent perspective, there are many self help books and the business related books that are coming up day in and day out. Out of that there are some books which become an instant hit and run for generations. In my earlier days when I had just joined industry, I came through a book called The Goal written by Godratt. The book beautifully run a parallel story between a manager's personal and professional life. How his both lives were under ruins and how he sees a parallel of Theory of Constraints and bottlenecks working in them and then removes the bottleneck to increase the productivity and achieve the Goal. There is 'Think & Grow Rich' by Napolean Hill whose other book 'Laws of Success' is equally wonderful at more than 1000 pages. It takes you through the 16 laws which if you follow will give you success. The most famous law among them is 'Work more than what you are paid for'. 

Reading these kind of books will give you knowledge and insights into different things. Our world is so small that we cannot actually come across new things until we meet new people and read new books. We will come across new ideas only in the open space and hence it is necessary to update yourself with new books, new blogs, new magazines.