I think, today, everybody capable of thinking and writing is powerful.
The very fact that one can think deep or far and wide to any extent, and the fact that one can express themselves in any way, through any means possible is plain ‘wonderful’.
The ability to express oneself in new ways, in different contexts, to form deeper meanings is what separates humans from animals.
While animals have evolved to develop ingenious ways to share information and express themselves, some in frequencies and ways beyond human reception and comprehension, there is a clear limit to it, in comparison to the complexity of information we humans are able to relay across to each other.
The invention of the portable form of written word, ‘books’ was a landmark moment.
Books are wonderful.
They are like little pieces of magic!
They are portable, concise yet compiled expressions of an individual’s lifetime of experience.
A book is the most primitive form of time travel.
A book can allow someone in the 22nd century to read and understand the thoughts and ideas of somebody from several centuries ago.
Also, it allows him to communicate and relay his knowledge and experience to someone in the centuries to come.
If this isn’t mind blowing, I do not know what is!
Books are plain awesome for another strong reason.
If there were no books, and you had to get someone to share his/her experience, it would not only be impossible to narrate everything in a sitting, also it would be full of redundant and filler information that we would discard anyway.
Books, however, help us circumvent the problem by forcing the author to think, recollect and compile all his knowledge into meaningful, relatable, comprehensible and consumable form.
The author has to further process all his compilation to remove less important or redundant pieces of information, only to present only the most important, relevant and useful things, based on his experience, to the reader.
Further, a book has advantages for the reader, too. It allows him to read through all this information at his free will, without the need of sitting with the author through hours of sessions to get the same amount of information.
This is unthinkable for any other living species on earth.
Books = Magic.
Had an author not decided to Think – Write – Publish, we would not have the book to read.
Which goes to show the importance of a daily consistent practice of:
Think – Write – Publish.
Go, do it!