Whatever goal a person sets for himself, his faithful and helpful assistants are books. They hid the source of accessible wisdom, which anyone can take on their weapons. Today, there is literature in the public domain for every single-minded reader. Examples of such literary discoveries have been described by many authors.
The Pushkin novel "Eugene Onegin" describes the contents of the protagonist's library. In particular, he was fond of the economic theory of Adam Smith. The nobleman mastered this book when he chose the field for himself - to do farming on a country estate. Then he was seriously carried away by the transformations in the village, mastered the experience of European economists and thought how to put it into practice in Russia. That is, even then, a young man who found a completely practical goal, was able to find a suitable guide in paper binding. As you can see, it helped the newly-minted gentleman: he began transformations in the economy and "replaced corvée with easy rents."
In Chernyshevsky’s novel “What to Do,” Lopukhov also teaches Faith through books. He seeks to develop her taste and instill in her a love of reading. The student turned out to be capable: after a couple of years of marriage, she opened a sewing workshop, but not for the sake of profit, but in order to help poor girls earn money honestly. All participants are equal shareholders, not employees. The woman took this idea in the writings of the Utopian Fourier, who opposed private property and the social inequality that it creates. Obviously, the heroine set a prosaic, material goal, but it was precisely the books that helped her, where she found useful guidance for herself.
Thus, the characters found useful and interesting books that helped them achieve their goals and become smarter. I think that each of us should follow their example and find a reliable assistant in the face of cognitive literature, which plays a decisive role in the development of a goal-oriented personality: the authors share their experiences with the reader and inspire him to creative activity.
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