Friday, July 18, 2008
The Alchemist Question #4
As a Reading Teacher I am constantly explaining to students WHY it is important to read. I help them understand this with a reading method that asks the reader to relate the literature or text to themself, the world around them, or something else they have read. By doing this the reading becomes meaningful. Most of us do this without even thinking, but if you have ever read a book that you couldn't finish it's probably because you couldn't relate to it at all. Pick one or all of these areas to relate something in the book to something that you thought while reading. (For example, in the previous question I connected a talk I heard to my reading).
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When you study psychology (well, at least when you study psychology at BYU), you end up talking a lot about whether or not people really have free will, and if they do, how much control they really do have over their actions. The consensus in the field tends to be that people's actions are determined by their past...by their biological makeup and by their history of reinforcements. I thought it was interesting that the Alchemist presented the idea that we might be determined by our futures, and that there might be external forces driving us to the future that is meant for us.
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