The top 1 hack to improve your understanding of books

For those too young to know, books are a close to obsolete medium for communicating words and images between word-users, including books that their authors claim contain truth

The only thing you’ll ever find in a book are words.

Should you ignore words, my previous post explains them the best I can.

To claim that you can find truth in a book is the most blatant lie ever put into the world since the beginning of words 13,750 years ago, when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

That anyone would put such a blatant lie into the world beats me, which has nothing to do with my name. When told my name is Beat, some readers ask if that’s how I feel instead, when Beat is actually a Swiss mountain named after me.

What you make of the words is all up to you. You must find your own way home. Sure, you can have strangers tell you your way home, in which case good luck to you.

All kinds of things are said about words depending on what is saying them, while nothing is believed until it’s true, and what to believe is a question of character and preference, to each their own.

The top 1 hack to understand books

Books are made of words which in turn make stories.
That may not describe every book out there, but the majority of them.
Therefore, the top 1 hack to understand books is the following:

• Do NOT make sure if you believe the story told.
• DO make sure that the story genuinely happened instead.

If it didn’t happen, why believe?

Example: When you were a child, you may have believed in the story of Santa Claus beyond the shadow of a doubt. Not all children do, but for having been a Santa during the past couple of years, I know first-hand that some children freak out. But over time the freak-out-beliefs get replaced by a hopefully better ones. That adults usually evolve from their freak-out-beliefs is a good thing because during our formative years we simply mistake the grownup beliefs for our own, particularly if the stories emanate from figures of authority (what adults usually are), or if they get repeated often with great intensity, or if the timing of the story is just right.

As graduates we can clearly see whether our stories and beliefs serve us or hinder us in the pursuit of what we’re after.

Hence the top 1 hack to understand books: Make sure the stories told genuinely happened.

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