In my experience, having a look at myself and at my surrounding, it’s not necessarily immense knowledge what makes someone wiser or more successful. I’m not saying that there is useless knowledge, only that there is a difference between knowledge and knowledge. There is a kind of knowledge that you can use and there is a kind, especially theoretical knowledge, that you can’t or only to a limited extent. We had better take the above into consideration before starting to learn anything, since it’s important to see how much the thing that we study enriches our life or whether it enriches it at all…
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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