Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books

...and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw -- and quality reads, not crap).

1. Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.

2. Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling awareness from experience.

3. Books enable to you to explain and teach about illusions and reality, placing you at "cause" instead of at "effect" where you are a victim of illusion.

4.. Books clarify and provide understandings. Movies merely create suspence and foreshadowing.

5. You think more clearly with a book because your brain gets neurological activity firing that is congruent with the logic of the book. Kind of like a "mental-cerebral" version of "if you smile, you'll feel happy". If you read a smart book, you'll think more intelligently. Movies trick and obfuscate intelligence.

6. Books, you have total control over the pace, and "order you read", movies (unless you fumble with FF and RW buttons, you do not have the same control.

7. Books, your vision is the movie and you are the director; movies lack that customization.

8. Books teach and entertain and create more cohesive thinking; movies, merely entertain with an inkling of "teaching".

9. Both movies and books inspire, but books provide an inspiration that is more enduring beacuse it is "your own version" of the inspiration.

10. Finally, books don't need electrical outlets, high-tech dvd players, surround sound and the like. Books are portable; you can bring them anywhere. Laptops are fixing that with movies, but with a book, you use your "built-in" surround sound, imax, widescreen mental imagery vision, which is infinitely more crisp, alive, and exciting than a movie screen.

I'm a former movie junkie (thousands and reruns) and have rediscovered the joy of reading!

By the way, why do I keep doing this blog? Because I believe sharing these ideas to be incredibly important and vital. You can try to convince me otherwise, but won't have much luck.

I think the ultimate underlying mutual understanding here is this: "You read the right books, on a topic, skill-set, or value you want to acquire, and you will program your mind to genuinely live that life". Movies are a quick way to glimpse at, and live vicariously through the characters and plots of other (fictional, screenplay) stories, and, unmistakenly, Incredible sources of cool inspiration.

Why do so many Millenials (almost every member of the IWR club) LOVE Office Space? Because we're constantly mobile, we loathe actual stagnant office spaces, but don't mind the internet and that dynamic exchange at all. However, watching the movie "Office Space" will merely create a vicarious, temporary, short-lived feeling of "freedom" from something in your real life that you wish to escape. If you actually want to CHANGE your life, books will do that for you. I guess an analogy is a movie is the ignition (it can start the desire or create awareness of a desired change) but then the book is the actual car (it supplies the programming you need in order to get you where you want to go).

Another example. Watch "I know what women want" and you start to laugh and feel great because that would be an awesome feeling. Wow! But then when it comes to actually "knowing what women want" there are books that help you actually create that "knowledge", not by mind-reading or fantastical whooey-looey, but by using NLP and anchoring and quality relationship rapport strategies so you and her get heard more and ultimately mutually share each other's interests and thus, collectively "know what each other wants" and in a kind of emotional, physical-kinesthetic mutualistic symbyosis, provide that.