A healthy appetite

I consume around a book a week which isn't always the easiest thing to do considering how complex and busy my life is. I make time though, schedule it, and it helps that I don't sleep much; it's amazing how much time is in the day when one spends under five hours of it sleeping. I don't always share what I'm reading but wanted to do that today, not from the perspective of the book itself, which I have found to be really fucken good; it's not even about the subject matter, the journey this chap has had in his Formula One career as a Team Principal, I'm sharing for a different reason.

Over my life, I've worked towards continually improving myself, mindset, knowledge, understanding, how I treat those I value and relationships in general, my abilities and skills and in many other ways; I fail a lot but have also achieved some remarkable results I am proud of. Pivotal to that has been other people and more specifically, other people's experiences. What I mean here is that I have learned a lot from people who have done things I have not, who have also failed mightily and, subsequently, have achieved amazing things. This is one of the great benefits of reading books; there's a lot to be found there in the written word and also in the concepts, thoughts, feelings and emotions that are evident between the lines and words on the pages; the Guenter Steiner book I'm reading currently is no exception.

I'm not going to start quoting from this, or any, book but I'll say for sure that many of the answers to the present and future can be found in the past; that is, through the experiences of those who have come before us, been to places and done things we have not done ourselves, and it doesn't matter that those experiences and situations may be completely different to our own; parallels can be drawn, similarities found, and if that brings enlightenment, understanding, knowledge and wisdom, or prompts a person to ask questions and seek answers, to think differently, then there's value.

I often find such things in books and it doesn't matter if it's a fiction or non-fiction book...there's always something to be gained and that's what drives my appetite for reading.