Image Courtesy - Getty Images I had last week written on why reading is essential for getting in a rounded personality ( Why Early Reading for Kids Makes Sense? ). One of the interesting revert was that while books are good to make one ‘successful’, too much emphasis on the books will make a person 'bookish'. Two errors of judgment lie in here, in my opinion. Primary issue is the assumption that I am advocating reading from the view of making a successful person, intonation being a successful person from the practical parameters. That was not the premise when I wrote that. I do not think success in a worldly sense has some written formula or recipe. Luck or fortune plays a great role there. We use some phrases every day, something to do with American world view that we do not realize the deeper significance of it. In an interesting writing by Alain De Botton , a contemporary philosopher refers to this. He posits that in an ancient world, when we came across a poor ...
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