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Good content for reading or a book, it’s not just giving you a suggestion for a good action, it’s also giving you a good reminder to yourself of doing something. As mentioned in the previous article, some principles in the book are also important, but not so important, and more important are action suggestions. In this article, we are taking a step forward. Sometimes a suggestion for action doesn’t matter, sometimes we just need one, a reminder.

If a person wants to do something, there are three elements, the first is willingness, the second is an ability, and the third is a reminder. Right, let me give you an example. For example, we adults should drink plenty of water every day, and we should drink at least two liters of water every day. If you want to be healthy, you need to exercise more, eat well, or go to bed early and get up early to be healthy.

This principle is easy to understand, so why do people often go there? Is it a lack of will? Everyone understands this truth. Is it a lack of ability? Who lacks the ability to drink water? The critical moment is that no one reminds me. If someone at my desk fills me up with a glass of water anytime, I’m sure I’m drinking those two liters for the day. So reminders are very important. There is a kind of book, which is the book of reminders.

Let me give you an example. There was a pioneering musician named Brian Eno. When he was writing music, he had a small tool. He made a bunch of cards in advance and wrote a lot of words on the cards.

For example, be the first person to eat a crab. Imagine you are a gardener, change roles as a musician, etc. With this pile of cards, when he was creating, if he felt that his creative inspiration was exhausted, he would find the box, draw out a card at random, and follow the reminder on the card.

If he imagined himself to be a gardener, he would think, how can I find the gardener at this time to cultivate that vitality, like cultivating plants, and continue to create this song of mine? Inspiration can often be found.

Anyway, every page is full of such a sentence. Once you touch the question in your mind, you will immediately get a suggestion and a reminder. Do you think this book is very wonderful? I find it very useful to have on my desk. If you think about it along this line of thought, isn’t that the essence of many fortune-telling books? For example, the fortune-telling book “Zhouyi” in the East, or “Tarot Cards” in the West

Many people talk about how mysterious the book “Zhouyi” or “Book of Changes” is. I look at the book “Zhouyi” from a particularly simple perspective. Isn’t it just some hexagrams, all kinds of incense and bathing, sitting in a famous hall, and then deduced for a long time with yarrow, and finally got a sentence, what is this sentence?

For example, the words in the book state in Chinese ancient sentences such as Qian Gua said, “The dragon lies hid in the deep”, “The dragon appears in the field”, “The dragon is on the wing in the sky”, and “The dragon exceeds the proper limits” something like that. Then it is nothing more than telling you, isn’t this with its tail between its legs, at this time you should, don’t do what you regret. It’s a key reminder.

Just like Tarot cards, each card does not have an independent corresponding image and content allusion. Whenever you draw a card, Tarot fortune-telling is to explain your situation at that time based on the story recorded in the corresponding card and the deduction of the content. Doesn’t this content remind you of a critical moment??

So regardless of whether the book “Tarot” or “Zhouyi” is viewed from a simple perspective, can we also read it in another book, which is called “The Book of Answers.” The title of this book is awesome, I have all the answers here. It sounded like I wanted to brag, so I opened it and read it, it’s amazing!

The usage of this book is like this, you don’t care about the problems in life, you spend 15 seconds thinking about what question you want to ask at this moment. For example, should I change jobs? Should I travel this week? Should I have a big fight with that person, tear him up?

OK, you think about your problem, take 15 seconds. Then turn to any page in the book at random. It often has a sentence on a page, and this sentence is a key reminder. What kind of words, it may be like this, say, don’t bet. This page is these three words, or, slow down. Or, act early. Or, don’t tell anyone. Or, wait and see, be flexible, you have to say thank you, blah blah blah.

From musician idea tool cards to “Tarot Cards” “Book of Changes”, or “Book of Answers” is essentially the same. And, it cannot be said that this is a book of superstition. It is at a critical moment, giving us a key reminder. This is very important nourishment for our life. So look, the benefit of reading is not only to understand the truth but sometimes to get a little reminder of the moment of truth.