NITROMOVES 2.0

There are articles I wrote, a couple of years ago, which are still with me.  I’d like to publish it on NITROMOVES.  I modified some stuff on this article. Feel free to send comments.

“My Personal Library”

Inch by inch, I’m building my personal library at home.  It is my dream to have a vast collection of books to enrich my mind and to share the literature with others.

On weekends, and sometimes after office hours, I would visit a bookstore.  I would browse good books and other reading materials to keep myself updated.  I see to it that the books I will buy are in line with my major goals I’ve set for the current year and beyond.

Since many bookstores observe a business cycle in a given year, I would try to purchase items during a “Book Sale” or “Inventory Sale” where huge discounts are being offered.  Bookstores normally schedule such events on a “lean month,” or off-peak season, or on their anniversary.  If I really need the reading materials, I would buy them right after I’ve browsed them well.  Else, I would include them on my list and, as I have mentioned earlier, purchase them at the proper time (Book Sale).  I don’t mind waiting for some months since it’s not very urgent to have them.

I made sure that the books—especially my top favorites—I bought recently are wrapped with clear plastic sheet;  this is to preserve them or to slow down, in some way, the “wear and tear” as the years pass by.

Now, let me bring you back to my personal library story.

Writers compile ideas, concepts, stories, theories, and skills, and compressed them into books.  They have, I assume, revised the literature several times to further refine them and to capture the essentials.  What the authors took hundreds of days to produce those literature will only give us a few weeks, if not a couple of days, to read and understand the contents.  ISN’T THAT AMAZING?  This wealth of good knowledge, stored in our personal library, will spur us to become better persons.

Let’s go into details.

By acquiring good knowledge, we are increasing our potential to reach our goals and dreams.  You see, knowledge is a major ingredient to attain wisdom and skills.  Knowledge, also, is a building block for success.  Mix it with principle-based practice and other relevant stuff, we are most likely to increase our chances of succeeding.   There are, of course, other internal and external factors to consider.  However, as we move along, we will learn something new and make proper adjustments to achieve our goals and dreams.

In addition, knowledge cannot be taken away from you by force.  It is at your disposal.  Generally speaking, wherever you go, knowledge sticks with you.

Finally, knowledge is one of the few things that, no matter how many times you share it with others, remain in you—intact, secure and sharp.  It resides in your long-term memory, under normal conditions, as long as you continue to impart them on a regular basis.  Thus, your knowledge on a particular subject becomes even sharper.

These are the reasons that drive me to build my personal library.