Now some of you may know what a paradox is. To equate our understanding, let me rephrase it. Paradox is a contradictory statement between the words while still makes sense to the meaning as a whole. A commonly used paradox for example is "less is more". Less and more is a completely different word and meaning where less means a lesser amount or quantity, contradicting more which means a greater or additional amount. An easy way to understand this sentence is, for example, when you procrastinate less, you will have more free time, thus resulting in more time for working. Something like that. Next is reading, which I don't think I need to rephrase it.
Enough of the introduction, now onto the main topic. We all, or at least some of us, agree that reading is one of the most entertaining activity to do in our free or full time. Whether you are reading fiction books, research-based books, journals, or blogs and websites like this depending on your purpose. To broaden your knowledge on things, to catch up with the news, or to feed your imagination and just want to leave the real life world behind. Sweet escape.
Like Aristotle said,
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Like Albert Einstein said,
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
The more we read, the more we realize that we have known only a tiny bit of the universe's plot. Therefore we want to read more and more, leading us to not try or implement the things we have learned because we are afraid to take any chances based on our little-knowledge perception.
Fear, is something a human being has to acknowledge and surpass. In order to have the power to do that, you need to read more. Just kidding. I'm sure you guys have already read a bunch of articles and other topics. Fear usually also means that you are a perfectionist. You are afraid to fail. That's it. That's why you procrastinate. In order to surpass this, you want to start as soon as your mind thinks about the idea. Don't even think about "yeah I'll do it in five minutes", "give me 10 more minutes", "I'll start doing it at xx:00 next hour". Just as soon as your mind pops the idea, count down from five until one and then just start doing it.
To be honest, I am somewhat a perfectionist myself, thus this paradox applies to me too. At least that's what my closest friends told me. All my works usually has been done on the last minute. Last. D*mn. Minute. I'm still in university so we are going to use assignments as an example. Usually the lecturer would give us a one-semester-long-project because the process is going to take so much time and the result have to be at least precise even if it's not accurate, it's still tolerable. Then there is me, a young fine man, who likes to do other activities rather than fulfilling my responsibilities mentioned above. Knowing d*mn well that I wouldn't finish the task in time if what I'm aiming is perfection. A good friend of mine once said, "a good thesis is one that is done". No matter how many mistakes you may have made in the writings, it's still a good thesis because at least it's done.
Conclusion:
Reading is indeed a source of knowledge especially in internet era where you can read almost anything you want to know in a quick search on an online library or search engine which saves us time rather than having to go to the nearest library in our town and then look for the book we want to read. While it's addicting, you also want to implement what you have just read in order to fully understand the idea of the thing you just read, admit it we can't be a madman who can make a very innovative founding on our first attempt. Perfection is something that's hard to get if you aren't brave enough to start the first step to get the task done. Be a challenger. Beat the game.
Adios!
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