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2.04.2005

Great Books Become Great Arcs In Time

It's a great thing to be in the midst of reading a great book that requires real effort and dedication and time to get through. These kinds of books form great arcs in time like great bridges. Great bridges aren't built over small streams or small bodies of water. They're built over great rivers and great bodies of water. Sometimes they're built over oceans. This corresponds to the level and depth of influence these great books deliver. Part of the delivery of this great level and depth of influence is the effort put in to read the book and then the dedication to stay with it over time. This builds on itself.

Sometimes this experience is more inspired than other times (i.e. sometimes you find just the right book - influence - for the particular time and stage you are in in your life), yet whenever you are putting in real effort and dedication, enduring dedication, day in and day out, over time, with a great book to completion you can derive something equal to the effort. It may be more of a foundation building effort (which are the kinds of effort that 'seem' to pay off less in the moment, yet really are everything - and obviously needed - in the long run).

Posted by c.t. at 23:37