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2018 in Books #1 : Outliers

My membership at the Evanston Public Library is my best-worst decision. Best, because I now have e-books delivered right into my Kindle without having me trudge in snow to borrow or return a book and the worst, because it is going to make me lazy and unfit.  Cut to the chase, Outliers has been a good start to 2018. At a modest 300 odd pages, Malcolm Gladwell writes a deeply researched and critically analysed account of success stories that we know of.  | The biggest takeaway you can get from Outliers  is the "other side" of stories, which are often ignored for the sake of glorification of the achievement. | It was enjoyable to see how tiny, seemingly inconsequential factors can help a person go a long way. A popular example the book talks about is Bill Gates' rise as a billionaire when he was a college dropout.  Treating his story superficially has led to popularizing the opinion, "hey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were college drop outs
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Rediscovery

Short post.
Often you find yourself wandering away from who you have known yourself to be. It's natural. New circumstances, new people can do that to you. But what when you have ambled far away, too far to make your way back? You have, as Frost so beautifully puts it, "...miles to go...". It's easy, you'd think. All one needs to do is retrace one's steps. Ah, but retracing means going back. Back through what you want to leave behind. Finding yourself and getting your old self again is hard. There is no rewind.

There is revival however. And this often happens with a start. An incident, an event, a person to jolt you back into realising that reconnecting with your old self wouldn't be so bad after all. Finding your forgotten hobbies again. I for one reconnected with literature after a 2 year hiatus. Don't know why or how I did without books, but boy, does it feel good to have one in my hands again.

Change is good. It is the only constant after all.

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