I am in love with life.
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"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book...or you take a trip...and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The sypmtoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure.
That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car.They pinic with their families. They raise children.
And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song and it awakens them and saves them from death.
Some never awaken."
Anais Nin.
Your Dominant Thinking Style: Exploring
You thrive on the unknown and unpredictable. Novelty is your middle name.
You are a challenger. You tend to challenge common assumptions and beliefs.
An expert inventor and problem solver, you approach everything from new angles.
You show people how to question their models of the world.
Classics, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Cummings, Oscar Wilde, "To Kill a Mockingbird", Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, the Bible, early plays by Woody Allen, Shakesphere. I've been on a Chuck Palahniuk and Jonathan Caroll kick lately. Thinking I might read a biography on Lance Armstrong next. Lots and lots of historical fiction like "Guns, Germs & Steel", by Jared Diamond, a book I cannot put down, anything on Alexandar the Great and Greek mythology and philosophy. Cultures are an incredible read especially those that involve the psychoanalysis of cultural interactions. Some of the best philosophy books I've read are Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Sophia's World, Life of Pi, among others. I'm reading grammar and rhetoric books right now--back to the junior high days but its always good to brush up on gerunds and parenthetical comma placements! Right now reading lots of Franz Kafka, Kundera, "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa, Joyce, Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho, Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs