Let’s take a look at this picture.
Someone here sees a young woman, but someone sees an old granny.
I personally see here a young woman, on a first sight.
Write down in the comments what do you see.
The point is, everyone sees everything in their own way, differently. That is the thing with pictures, art, and books.
Now I am going to write about “Why should you read the whole book”, even though you read/or watched the summary. I will give you 1 main reason why you should read the whole book.
Nowadays, there are more and more summaries of the books, especially those nonfictional, for example: top 5 ideas, top 10 ideas from a book etc. And those are great videos. I also love to watch a videos like those, especially when I find a new, interesting book, I want to know what is the main message. But, that lesson, or 5 lessons are from the perspective of the author of the video, that one who had read the book. He creates a video based on his experience and then his experience is everything we can get from that video. If the author of the book wanted to say just that, he would have written it in that short way.
When writing a book, the author puts in a lot of details, stories and experiences, in order to complete the experience and the lesson. And when we read the whole book and the story, in our heads we compare it to our own situation. And while doing so, it can happen that some, maybe random sentence, catches your eye, the sentence that makes you stop and think for a moment. The sentence after which some things click in your head, the light bulbs on in your head, you connect the 2 dots and have the “aha” moment. For someone else, that sentence maybe wouldn’t have made anything and it wouldn’t help, but for you it did help. It helped in filling in the picture, about something that you have been thinking or about something you’re doing right now. That sentence you may not read or find in a summary, because it is “hidden” in the book, but over there you will find it.
And at the end you will absorb the story and the message in your own way, in the perspective that you need. However, no one else can do it for you, because you and only you know your goals and vision.
There are no wrong and correct interpretations of the story or the book, every one of them is correct. Every one is correct because it is relevant for that person who made it. My message and conclusion is correct for me, but it doesn’t have to be for someone else, same for your conclusion.
Because one sentence, can change the whole flow and direction of where you are going, it can help that you do something closer and better for you understand something about yourself that is important, that is why I think you should read the whole book.
VIDEO
Watch the video where I explain this topic: