소설을 자기 도움으로 전환하기: 문학의 힘

### 소설을 개인적인 자조로 전환하기: 문학적 통찰의 힘
* 📚 가상의 문학은 **기존의 자조 서적에 비해 자기 계발과 자기 계발에 대한 더 깊고 영향력 있는 접근 방식**을 제공합니다.
* 🌟 문학 속 인물은 단순한 이야기 속 배우가 아니라 **인간의 본성과 경험을 반영하는 거울**로, 독자가 스스로 결론과 통찰을 이끌어낼 수 있게 해줍니다.
* 🎭 등장인물의 행동, 감정, 성장을 분석함으로써 독자는 **인생의 소중한 교훈과 자기 계발을 위한 규칙**을 도출할 수 있습니다.
* 🌿 문학에는 종종 **자연의 아름다움과 미적 요소**가 포함되어 있어 건조한 자기계발서보다 더 풍성하고 즐거운 독서 경험을 제공합니다.
* 🧠 가상의 이야기는 **명시적인 자조 조언에 비해 교훈을 학습하고 내면화하는 데 더 효과적인 방식**으로 두뇌를 자극합니다.
* 📖 "가장 좋은 방법은 우리 자신의 개인적인 삶에서 일어나는 일들에 주의를 기울이고 그것으로부터 배우는 것이라고 생각합니다. 하지만 **두 번째로 좋은 방법은 주변 사람들이 하고 있는 일에서 스스로 결론을 얻는 것**입니다."
* 🔍 등장인물의 삶, 감정, 결정을 관찰하고 해석함으로써 독자는 **인간의 본성과 개인적 성장**에 대해 더 깊이 이해할 수 있습니다.
* 🎁 문학을 개인적인 자기계발로 전환하는 과정은 **자신이나 타인에게 사려 깊고 의미 있는 선물**이 될 수 있으며, **지속적인 자기계발과 성장**을 촉진할 수 있습니다.

문학 도서를 분석하면 개인의 성장과 인간 본성을 이해하는 데 유용한 통찰력을 제공하는 효과적인 자기계발서로 탈바꿈할 수 있습니다.

it's 2700 BC. You're living in ancient Mesopotamia. You've had a great harvest. You've just come home from celebrating some resources with your friends and are contemplating the meaning of life and why the hell you're even here. When something amazing happens. The first book just drops. The Epic of Gilgamesh changes your life. It really explains the importance of making your bed in the morning and creating productive and sustainable habits. And for thousands of years to come, the brightest human rights will can book of the book on the importance of Leverage and Outsourcing and just why you're such a badass. Of course, they don't. While we've already struggled with the same issues self-doubt anxieties depression procrastination. We used to approach these things a lot better. Art poetry theater music used to approach these things in a way that had depth that had passion and eventually was much more effective than the dry self-help books that we have today. Now, despite the title of this video, I do just want to say that

everyone is free to read whatever the hell makes them happy, and I myself very often actually read self-help books. But the reason I'm making this video is because quite often I get told off for almost wasting my time reading fictional books, when actually I really strongly believe that when it comes to self-help or self-improvement or just living a better life, nothing and absolutely nothing tops a good fictional book. A post write every person is capable of transforming a good fictional book into their own personal non-fiction self-help book, which will be a thousand times more effective than any other self-help book out there which is already written as of today. I wanted to break down why I think we should all be doing this and how to do it exactly. Let's get straight into it. We crawl out of the womb surprised to be alone is a beautiful quote by Adrian Mayor Brown, which I think really captures this sense of human existence, which is very often quite alone, disconnected, and craving a connection with someone else. However, she goes on to say that nothing is truly random.

universe has its favorites, and it repeats them again and again. In the same way that our fingerprints are the same shape as galaxies, this repeating nature, this almost fractal nature of existence, doesn't just happen with physical things, but also happens with our experiences. And I think that this is where the self-help genre really comes in. Because on one hand, we have this deep sense of disconnect and loneliness, and on the other hand, we have the realization that other people have been through this too. I am connected, I am part of something, and that other people who have lived in the past have gone through this, and other people perhaps who are living now are going through the same things. I think that this is a journey and a task that we should all do individually, and we are kind of underselling it by outsourcing it to other people who have made these connections and these rules. Self-help books just crassly tell us things and give us information, but literature and art do is give us the elements to come to these conclusions ourselves. And I think that this

realization is just so much more powerful and effective and time enough for Love. At one point, the protagonist says, Of the few things I've learned, is that humans hardly learn from the experience of others. They learn when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way. So it's not only that we learn by experience, is that we only sometimes learn from our own experience, and we might have realized this ourselves. For me, for example, very often I don't do things, or I can't do things, not because I don't have the knowledge, but because I can't apply that knowledge, because it was never mine, it was just given to me from someone else. So I think, where possible, obviously, the best thing to do is to be mindful of things are happening in our own personal lives and learning from them, but the second best thing to do is to gain conclusions ourselves from the things that other people around us are doing. I think that there is just something so much deeper in being able to witness someone's life in full and being able to

observe it, and the lessons that you can get from the things that they are going through are much more effective than a lecture that they can give you. I think that we are hardwired to enjoy storytelling in a way that is much more effective than just like lessons and things being told. For example, if someone was to read a fictional biography of Jordan Peterson, I would get so much more lessons for living my life than listening to his lectures or the books that he's explicitly written telling me to do things. As Jeanette witherson said, I am Telling You stories, trust me. So, I really think that we are hardwired to gain much more and to be able to interpret stories better than we give ourselves credit for. Furthermore, a very important reason I prefer literature is captured by Donald Donahue who says, the poor have been doubly impoverished by the ugliness that surrounds them, and this really captures the fact that living in urban areas, we are surrounded by lack of beauty, lack of Nature, and just ugliness and grayness.

around us. I think that we are very much hardwired to enjoy beautiful things. For example, if we look at a waterfall, or if we look at the Earth from a mountain, or if we hear a beautiful piece of classical music, or if we hear and read something beautiful in literature, we feel something. I'm making everything around us so gray and mass-produced and not unique. I think we have robbed ourselves of so much pleasure from our daily lives, and I feel that self-help books are just a continuation of this damage that is being done. We've gone from mythology, poetry, literature, and arts to just dry productivity advice, and the thing is, these original stories were actually giving the exact same advice. They didn't put just taking so much more care in the experience of the person who is reading them and absorbing them and not being completely explicit with them, but I think we've just stripped that all down and we've just cut down to the chase, which we've done with so many things around us, and I think natural beauty is just so

essential to experiencing a good life. For example, Pascal said, you should always keep something beautiful in mind because it is the power of that which will help us endure what can sometimes be the bleakness of our existence. And this, I feel, is so underrated. And because literature is, I think, a lot closer to this beauty and this nature, it takes inspiration from things that are around us and tries to replicate in a verbal form things that we experience in the world. I think it really captures what is really natural. Jeanette Winterson said, very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom? Taking inspiration from nature and anchoring our self-help and productivity advice to messages which are beautiful within themselves, that care for the form of delivery, make the experience of reading just so much more pleasurable and effective. I think we're naturally curious about the worlds and stories, and we should incorporate these in the

messages that we are trying to give John and Donahue. Also, said it's strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. So now, let's go to specifically how I transform literature books into self-help books. And the very first thing that I will do is focus on the characters within themselves. And this can be a main character, a protagonist, or a side character. And I'm really seeing them not as someone who's just doing things. So, not as someone who is taking actions to drive the story forward, but more someone to whom things are done. Someone who is kind of being changed and being affected by things that people say around them, by things that happen to them, by things that they are thinking themselves. And therefore, I'm trying to find cause and effect where I can see it and try to interpret and come up for rules for what I see. So, to get very specific example into the lighthouse, Virginia Woolf describes the interaction between a mother and a guest, male guest in her house, where she says, But afterwards, they got on perfectly.

made herself out even more ignorant than she was, because he liked telling her that she was a fool. Now, this is a very powerful paragraph, and especially in contacts, you can really see many layers of human interaction here. And of course, the most obvious one seems to be around the gender roles. So, a woman making herself feel foolish so that a man can feel comfortable and like her more. So, we can analyze this on this level. Also, we can go in deeper and strip it off the gender roles themselves and kind of see this human interaction and this power play and what can make someone who values power feel better about you or feel better about themselves and what this interaction is. So, in the sentence alone, even ignoring the rest of the story, there is so much analysis that we are free to do and insert ourselves on how human nature works and how interactions work. There's no need to read a whole book on like making friends and influencing people and all that kind of stuff that gives these kind of raw lines. Just with this line, we can go back.

and see how she's been interacting so far. How the relationships have happened and we can analyze a lot better and come up with a lot more rules for better understanding friendship and love and human interaction Dynamics. The second way that I love to analyze fictional books is to see how the characters just are. And what I mean by this is that very often I tend to think of what I should be, what I should do, what decisions I should make, and very rarely do I actually think of how to be. How do I exist? What is my daily emotion throughout the day? And what is my experience of this life? This I do not pay a lot of attention to, so I probably should, but I've tried to do this in books themselves. And I kind of try to see this how layer and observing the characters in the book and seeing how are they existing. How do they view life? And what is their primary emotional state? And how are they maintaining this or going away from this to go back to the lighthouse at one point about the

mother, it said she had done the usual trick, been nice. She would never know him, he would never know her. And this is a specific rule and experience for how to live your life. And it kind of shows that balance of how much you open up to someone and what sort of connection you can have at different levels. And this can be seen as a way of living and how much to open up about yourself with the people who are around you and what level of interaction you can achieve with this. And this also becomes an anchor. So every time that there is a rule, it kind of stays in my mind and then I go retrospectively and see what the character has done so far and how this has informed her decision making and also take this role in the future for the book and kind of see all the other decisions that she makes in light of this. And thirdly, for this video, literature books are turned into self-help books by looking at the change and the progression of the characters. Very often, I will pick up a theme for a

character and then I will see what sorts of things they can inform in this direction. For example, Time Enough for Love, there's a character who can teach us how to live a comfortable life with minimal effort. And I came up with, I think, seven or eight points of how to do this thing. Like, for example, there were things like, Have your managers at work observe you when you're doing hard work, and things like this. A very kind of funny, self-helpy tips that could be taken from the book in this way. And on the other hand, I found that one of the main themes in To the Lighthouse was how to deal with depression and how to overcome with depression in your family. And there were a few rules. Again, I don't have to agree with all of them. There are things like, Have a baby or witness pure joy around you, or Have someone who is toxically positive be surrounded by them that can lessen your anxiety. So there are a lot of tips, I think, that the authors were subtly given within the story. So every time

that I have this theme in mind. I will try to approach the book with it. And on the back of the book, so on the back cover, or on the last few pages that don't have any writing on them, I will kind of write these rules one by one. And depending on the book, sometimes there'll be three rules, or ten rules, or 20, or 30, depending on what I want to gain from it. So in this way, by the end of the fictional little story, I've had a really fun experience of kind of seeing Beauty, seeing a storyline, seeing what happens to the characters, feeling connected to people in the world, but also some really strong messages that I can take forward into my life. So as I said earlier, I do still read quite a lot of non-fiction books and self-help books, and I do summarize them up on my website, which you are free to see if you want to kind of see my interpretations or how I approach them, but also most importantly, this also highlights the value of having a personal website, even if you're not in

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Forget self-help books, learn how to read fiction properly

Elizabeth Filips

자조와 자기 계발에 있어 허구의 책이 가진 힘

길가메시 서사시는 생산적인 습관과 지속 가능한 삶을 강조하는 최초의 자조 서적으로 꼽힙니다.

허구의 책은 개인이 자기 의심, 불안, 우울증을 깊이 있고 열정적으로 극복하도록 돕는 독특한 힘을 가지고 있어 기존의 자조 서적보다 더 효과적입니다.

문학과 예술은 단순한 정보 제공에 그치지 않고 독자가 스스로 결론과 통찰을 내릴 수 있는 요소를 제공하므로 개인의 성장에 매우 유용합니다.

주인공은 개인적인 경험과 타인의 경험을 통해 배우는 것의 중요성을 강조하며 인생의 교훈을 전달하는 스토리텔링의 힘을 강조합니다.

문학에 대한 선호와 아름다움의 향유는 자기계발서에서 볼 수 있는 건조한 생산성 조언과는 대조적으로 인간의 성취를 위해 필수적인 것으로 여겨집니다.

현대 사회에서 자연스러운 아름다움을 잃어가는 현대인들에게 조언을 제공하는 데 있어 오리지널 스토리의 영향력도 강조되고 있습니다.

자기계발서에서 문학이 가진 변화의 힘

문학은 자연계의 아름다움과 영감의 독특한 원천을 제공하며, 즐겁고 효과적인 자조 메시지를 제공합니다.

문학을 자기계발서로 변환할 때는 등장인물의 내적 변화와 상호작용에 초점을 맞추기 때문에 인간 본성을 분석하는 데 풍부한 자료를 제공합니다.

문학의 특정 문단은 인간 상호 작용에 대한 깊은 통찰력을 제공할 수 있으므로 해당 주제에 대한 방대한 책 없이도 자기계발 콘텐츠에 유용하게 활용할 수 있습니다.

소설 속 관계와 캐릭터 역학 분석하기

소설 속 등장인물 간의 상호작용과 관계는 인간의 상호작용 역학에 대한 귀중한 통찰력을 제공할 수 있습니다.

등장인물이 존재하고, 삶을 바라보고, 감정 상태를 유지하는 방식을 관찰함으로써 독자는 타인에게 마음을 여는 균형과 달성할 수 있는 연결의 수준에 대해 배울 수 있습니다.

이 책에 묘사된 규칙과 경험은 의사 결정과 향후 상호 작용을 위한 지침이 될 수 있습니다.

또한 문학 작품 속 등장인물의 변화와 진행 과정을 분석하면 소설책을 자기계발 자료로 활용할 수 있습니다.

문학에서 인생의 교훈 추출하기

"사랑을 위한 충분한 시간"과 같은 일부 문학 작품에서는 열심히 일하는 동안 관리자가 자신을 관찰하도록 하는 등 기발한 자조 팁을 제공합니다.

"등대로"는 기쁨이나 긍정적인 사람들로 자신을 둘러싸는 등 우울증 극복에 대한 조언을 미묘하게 제공합니다.

책에서 이러한 규칙을 추출하여 자신의 삶에 적용하는 화자의 접근 방식은 재미있고 의미 있는 경험을 제공합니다.

개인화된 웹사이트에 투자할 때 얻을 수 있는 이점

개인화된 웹사이트에 투자하는 것은 저렴한 비용으로 할 수 있으므로 선물용으로도 좋습니다.

또한 프로젝트를 시작하려는 사람에게 영감의 원천이 될 수도 있습니다.

후버는 현재 이러한 유형의 투자에 관심이 있는 분들을 위해 할인을 제공하고 있습니다.