Glasses & Books

I get this question a lot:

"What is the point of reading if I forget it all? "

So, I want to allegorically compare books to glasses, books change us via changing our mental models and the very reality that we perceive in this world.

You can think of mental models as psychological lenses that color and shape what we see, Some of this is genetic or cultural (for example; Americans focus on very different parts of a picture than the Egyptians do).

But much of our perception is also shaped by experience — and experience includes the books we read - and surely the movies we watch and the music we hear....etc-

Reading as an experience that simply trains our mental model and perception of the world.

Even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model and perception of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program even if you’ve lost the source of, It works, but you don’t know why.

Read, think, question..