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To Learn From Someone Else, Not Be Someone Else
They have lessons, teachings, experiences we could learn from. We are not them, not the "modern-day Aristotle", nor "Einstein the Second". Unless we have the same name by accident?
The mixin of perspectives shape us, what books we read, what we experience, and what choices we made. Are we really classifiable by personality test, as discrete groups than continuous traits?
We read books written by those of the past, containing lessons which we choose what to take, and what to ignore. Feeling grateful to live later than those living earlier, as they have less books, hence less lessons, to learn from, especially before the printing press revolution.
Books may be a compilation, from what lessons others learnt, into a single book as one's lesson. Books may be new, with something not derived by people of the past, not coming from anywhere else, but one figure it out, the pioneer. Are we really creating value with compilation? Probably offering a new perspective "no one else" seen before?
How can one be sure one's right? How can one be sure the author is right? And with the author's difference in life target, is it not apply to one, especially when it crashes?
We are all on the path of self-discovery in order to be able to act self-responsibly in the end and on the way to this goal we take many teachings with us, some of which we discard and many of which accompany us throughout our lives because they seem meaningful to us. It just crossed my mind. Nice post, thanks for sharing and have a great evening! :)