Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Historical novels, reading about famous people: is that a good idea?


I know a lot of people who love to read historical novels, biographies, etc. When I look at them I get that they live their lives vicariously through those novels, not in reality. All these people have boring, ordinary lives.

For the past 4-5 months, I have been reading about the Mongols, the 13-14th century innovators of the world, without whom the world would look very very different.

The founder, the father of the Mongol Empire was Genghis Khan.

Now, why am I sharing this?

Because the only reason to read historical fiction, or biographies of famous people is to get a glimpse of what caused them to become more, bigger, or special.

We are all born ordinary. Then we either stay ordinary or choose a path that leads to exceptional, whether it is in the direction of bad or good. ((In choosing a path, context is decisive. If the context is only themselves, their pleasure, their life, then the direction is towards desire for the self alone, aka evil. If the context (the why) is about more than just themselves and their life, then the direction is towards the Light))

In every life, there is at least one turning point, one moment of choice when one can choose a direction towards extraordinary...

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