“We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. Victor’s father, mother, and brother were also captured and killed. The author was a bit too familiar with agony he had been in the Auschwitz concentration camp for many years. When I read this book I was assured humans don’t have a grand reason to live or go on despite the suffering. Why are we here, what is space, why do we live on, why do we do the same things every day? I had been asking some hard and deep questions about life. When I picked up Man’s Search for Meaning - a remarkable journey of an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor - the author Victor himself, life took another meaning. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. “One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.” Reading Sapiens is like going through our family’s black and white photo albums, at least if we think of the whole world as one. But he might just say, “Could you please put me back to sleep? The world of my unconscious was better than this one.” If a preserved mummy wakes up and says, “Who am I? Where am I?” Give him a copy of Sapiens and he will know everything that has happened and would be able to predict an event or two in the future, too. (It is also a great book for new writers to understand the importance of story-telling.) Read this one to know what has been happening since fourteen billion years aka day zero. Sapiens will tell you all about the great grandmother we shared with chimpanzees, how our brain and body developed, the power of stories in uniting sapiens, how we made all other animals extinct, why we eat wheat, the reality of the agricultural and industrial revolution, systems behind capitalism and marital rape laws, why our religious and cultural values are hypocritical, humanity’s biggest frauds, the impact of money, the first usage of chloroform, steam engines, Buddhism, and the latest but the scariest technological advancements including the advent of cyborgs. In Sapiens, Yuval has not only told the story of the evolution of the planet and homo sapiens but he has also exposed our conduct on earth. “The real question is not what do we want to become, but what do we want to want?” But that I could learn, too.īy a life changing book, I don’t necessarily mean a bestseller.īy life changing books I mean the books in which the most obvious things have been said in the simplest form that tell the history of life not as how people want us to know but how it happened that show life writhing out of the mouth of suffering with full force that remind us of adventures we had as little children that give sense to our today, too that seem long and convoluted but essentially they talk about things we have always ignored that make us reconsider if the thing is worth beating ourselves about that make us look at life with a child’s eyes again that make us ask questions we were too scared to even think about that unravel the science behind all this and help us be a little less clueless that give us hope that change is nothing but little things done every day that show us compassion and tell us we are okay as who we are. They reassured me it was okay to be who I was. They told me life can be lived in many ways. They made me laugh as if I had nothing to worry about. They told me stories I could never imagine. They laid open the science I didn’t know exist. But during this time, I read some books that shifted the course of my life. I started reading books, both fiction and non-fiction, sincerely only for the last five years (linked are the best books of the category I read in 2020). Has anyone ever asked you to read books to change your life? I would go as far as to say reading is one of the synonyms of personal growth.
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