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Message: [QUOTE="Naltic, post: 141319, member: 105556"] I mean, look—everyone has different opinions, and that's all fine and dandy. But I feel like you're missing out on the valuable information you could gain from the book because of the way you're approaching it. You come off as very pragmatic, which isn't a bad thing since pragmatism is necessary to discern between useful and useless information. However, with that mindset, you seem more focused on [I]what[/I] the book is—who wrote it, how it was made, etc.—rather than simply reading it, understanding its message, and then deciding what knowledge is worth keeping. As I said before, different people have different opinions, but one shouldn’t be so pragmatic that they fail to recognize the valuable insights a book has to offer. Personally, I liked the book, but I didn’t agree with everything in it. Rather, I picked and chose the pieces of knowledge I found valuable to keep in mind. No book is perfect, but when reading self-help books, especially, one should have an open mind and ask, [I]"What useful information can I take from this?"[/I] Knowledge is knowledge, and there is no such thing as too much of it. [automerge]1742495575[/automerge] well of course, I am Muslim too and I really just think of self-help books as a means to widen my knowledge, something which Islam of course promotes. [/QUOTE]

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