"Blog 100 Feature": Talk about my reading journey!

From August 8th, 2020, I have one article per week on the blog, and finally there are 100 articles (sprinkling flowers)! I would like to take advantage of this memorable time to talk to you about my reading journey.

Actually, I have been wanting to write about this topic for a while. It happened that a few days ago, I just found out that a hundred articles are approaching, and I want to say when I don't write this article!

There is another opportunity. I visited Chan Yu Yue Du a few weeks ago, and the proprietress warmly recommended my recent favorite books. I also took the opportunity to share my blog and IG. She pressed the follow button happily, but also asked curiously: Why do you want to promote reading in this era when no one reads?

yeah why?

I think this may be answered from my reading journey.

[Sprouting: Imperceptibly]

In "But I Don't Like It" , I once said that I like reading because of my mother's relationship. Since my mother is a book lover, there is no shortage of books at home. There was a book wall in the room for me to enjoy very early, and there are all kinds of books.

I remember when I was in the third grade of elementary school, I often read it in bed with a heavy children's encyclopedia. In addition to provoking several scoldings, it also caused me to step into the abyss of myopia. My mother also bought a set of western classic literature children's editions. As a result, when I was young, I read tomes (albeit abbreviated) such as "The Rest of My Life", "Little Women", or "War and Peace". I think it was really promising back then, sigh...

In addition, there is Yasen recommended by my mother. Luo Ping series (it is said that she loved it when she was young). At that time, what I read was the yellow edition of Taiwan Oriental Publishing House. When I was about five or six years old, I went to the school library to carry several books home to read every week. I really miss the reading time of my childhood!

【Darkness: Shadow of Enrollment】

After going to middle school, the pressure of going to school is rising, the time spent on textbooks is increasing day by day, and the time spent reading extracurricular books is directly proportional to the decline.

It got worse after high school. This tragic past was mentioned in the article "The Brain Likes to Learn This Way" . As I met a lot of ghosts and gods, I had great doubts about my own abilities, and reading became a very painful thing. I was caught in the vortex, and even thought that the book should only be read by people with good minds, and it was just a waste of time to work hard on my own.

This kind of extreme mentality also affects my mood to read other idle books. In addition, I spend almost all of my time "reading" books. As a result, I can count the amount of reading in the past three years on 10 fingers. The reading habit that has been kept since elementary school has just been broken...

【Rebirth: The World of Fiction】

When I entered college, the whole time was fluffy. However, in the beginning I spent more time on the basketball court and reading was too far away from me. The opportunity that brought me back was my kind-hearted classmates. At that time, when I visited the next bedroom, my friend asked me if I wanted to read the book he borrowed recently.

This book is "Walking in the White Night" by Keigo Higashino.

As a result, it was nothing if I didn't read it. I couldn't leave it after reading it. I was amazed that a mystery novel could be written like this. It was only after an investigation that I found out that Japanese mystery novels are divided into the self- style faction that solves the mystery, and the social faction that rewrites the truth. Later, I followed almost all of Higashino's works, and I also read many works by the socialist master Kiyocho Matsumoto .

In this way, I started to read books in large quantities after reading the fire was ignited.

During the summer vacation of my junior year, I did not go home under the pretext of doing a special project, and began to read Jin Yong. It took two full months to kill and play the full set, and my eyes were going out of the window. After that, I read Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series and "Silmarillion" all over again. Ah, and the "Song of Ice and Fire" that is still unfinished...

In college, I completely returned to the world of reading. But at that time, I read all novels. The only non-fiction I read in my mind was "The World Is Flat", but I don't remember much about what it was talking about now... Maybe the shadow of the time when I was studying was still there. Sex books are always hard to read.

And this situation ushered in a turn when the research institute...

[Turn to: Social Movements]

Originally, I was lying in my comfort zone studying, but when I was in the master class, I encountered a major event that changed everything: the 318 student movement .

I remember that when I opened my eyes every day, I was crawling on Facebook, kicking posts in batches, and letting countless information go straight to my forehead. Trying to understand the context of this movement, I was surprised to find that I was so "ignorant". Not only do they know very little about the history of Taiwan, but they also lack the perspective of economics and sociology to understand the world. Thinking of these important things, I didn't pay much attention to them in the past, and I instantly felt quite ashamed.

After the exercise, I started running the library ignorantly, borrowing non-fiction works like Li Xiaofeng's "100 Events in Taiwan History" or Qi Bangyuan's "Giant River" to break out of my comfort zone.

But even though I was aware of the inadequacies, I was more concerned about the upcoming employment. Since nearly half of the department went to the sacred mountain to sell the liver to save the country, at that time, naturally, I was also willing to sacrifice my life to earn money, and planned to join the ranks of protecting the country. Unexpectedly, the apprenticeship was unfavorable, and the interviews in five departments were unsuccessful.

At that time, I was confused for a while (see the article "Unlocking Emotions" ). After reluctantly accepting it, I graduated from the research institute and went to a rural elementary school in Weibei, Kaohsiung, to start a life of alternative service that I had never thought of before...

[Expansion: Hibernating Time]

Substitute service was a complete accidental gap for me. I feel that since I can't sell my liver for money, I need at least some gain, and an equivalent exchange. "Let's read, then!" I thought. Due to the deficiencies I realized before, I turned my reading eyes to those areas where I had not stopped. Whether it's science, sociology, economics, history, religion, or philosophy, just let it go.

Books that had a great impact on me, such as Guns, Germs, and Steel , World View , and The Black Swan Effect , which were introduced by the rereading project, were all encountered during this period.

Because this kind of study has no possibility of examination and comparison, it allows me to move forward at my own pace. Substitutes have nothing to do most of the time, so I thought and chewed while watering the flowers and mowing the grass. Put it aside if you can't figure it out, and let the knowledge have time to settle and ferment. If you don't understand it, just let it go.

Let go of my prejudices and read widely. Every day, I am constantly updated and attacked by various diverse viewpoints, and my originally narrow vision has been opened up. To record these feelings, I started using Evernote to take reading notes and organize what I learned more systematically.

In addition, even the novels that I have been in contact with have given birth to new tentacles, and I have read old classics such as "Lingshan", "Border Town", "1984" or "Too Loud Loneliness". Attached is a list of books you read at that time.

In short, during this period, I was completely immersed in the sea of books and thoroughly enjoyed the new joy of reading.

【Application: Selling Liver Life】

After working as a substitute for Ge Ge, I finally returned to the technology industry after a circle, and started a life selling liver in a semiconductor foreign business. And when I became a social animal, I also began to turn to reading some more tool books.

For example, I bought a lot of time management books (such as "Get It" ) because I felt that my spare time was extremely limited after going to work; and when I faced the frustration of hitting the wall when I was working, I found solutions from self-growth books (such as "Being Yourself" ). At the same time, I also began to discover the importance of financial management, changed my insensitivity to money in the past, and bought a lot of financial books and came back to study (such as "Walking Wall Street" ).

It was also during this time that my desire to share and read became stronger, and I felt that good things should be known to more people. But maybe it was the inferiority complex when I was studying, and I always felt that my ability was not good enough to share. These are mentioned in "How did I start writing?" > has already been discussed, so I won't repeat it.

In short, on August 8, 2020, I finally published my first reading experience in "Music's Reading Space". Let my reading start another new journey!

[Postscript: Reading Imagination]

If you follow my friends for a while, you should find that I read a lot of things. This scattered situation actually reflects my reading trajectory along the way.

Kick back the question at the beginning: Why promote reading in this age when no one reads?

The reason is naturally inseparable from my experience. Reading is like exploration for me, and through the words in the book, I can venture into all kinds of new fields. And I hope these "reading" landscapes can be seen by more people.

I never wanted to position myself as that condensed, focused storytelling. What I do is more like showing pictures of the sights from my travels and recommending these great places. It would be great if everyone, because of these sharings, could personally visit those places and even discover the wonderful scenery that I hadn't noticed.

At the same time, I hope that through this kind of sharing, everyone can get more perspectives and ways to view the world.

As mentioned in "Making the Truth" and "Reflections on Success" , in this age of information abundance at first glance, people's cognitive differences are getting bigger and bigger, and we live in a more divided world. What I'm looking forward to is whether it is possible to let everyone discover "There are also these aspects of thinking through these sharing!"

That's why I named my blog Reading Space. I hope you can walk in here at ease, wander freely, find a comfortable place to contemplate alone, or discuss with me, or communicate with others.

In this way, the usual tension in the current online society can be eliminated, and people can understand other people's views, and then try to communicate and find a better direction that is more acceptable to each other. My ideal reading space is a field where these can be practiced.

Of course, none of the above has been implemented yet (laughs). I am still exploring whether there are other possible mediums besides blogs, fans, and IG. I just finished watching "Creating Anna" recently. For some reason, I am very impressed with the ADF that Anna wants to do. Maybe when the book is thick enough, it would be good to have a physical reading space (?)

After thinking about it, it's time for the conclusion. I think that in this "fast" era when short videos and community pictures and texts are in vogue, reading is an opportunity to "slow down" and allow us to think quietly. Only when we are still can we regurgitate ourselves, understand others, and understand the world better. This is what reading taught me and why I want to share reading in this age when no one reads.

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