So, here’s a little ode to my lifelong book obsession, and how it’s helping me to audit big enterprises and implement multilayered processes. And why everyone should read more haha
You probably know this about me by now: I’ve been a voracious reader since I was a kid. When I was little, if my mom lost track of me for a few hours, she knew exactly where to find me - tucked away in a library corner, happily devouring every single book on the shelf. Fast forward to law school: I basically flew through all the recommended reading at lightning speed. I’m a total book omnivore. I love sci-fi, sure, but I’ll also dive into fantasy, history, biographies, scientific papers, business, self-development, you name it. Honestly, I’ll read just about anything.
Now, here’s the really interesting part: I think books have given me this super vivid imagination. Maybe that’s why a lot of my dreams and goals come true - because I can picture them in detail before I start planning for anything. I can feel how those dreams will look, how they’ll sound, everything.
So when I’m reading an epic battle scene - imagine 500 warriors on one side, a thousand on the other, all these parallel storylines - I remember it all. Even if I pause reading for a few weeks, when I come back, it’s like I just hit play on a mental movie. I can see again every detail, every color, every sound, every scent and smell. It’s all still there.
Side note: I have a terrible memory for real-life details! There’s this theory that people who read a lot kind of replace their brain’s recognition patterns with these vivid internal worlds. That’s me. I can hold entire multi-threaded scenes in my head, or multi-layered audit processes, but I will forget where my 10-years to-go grocery store is located 🤣
It’s like training my brain to design and manage parallel processes and do risk assessments, just like I do with storylines. That’s why I love writers. They are genius and they live forever in their books. Movies are fun, but they’re flat - they can only show you one or two layers at a time. Books let you run a dozen parallel stories in your mind at once, like a grand, multi-dimensional chessboard which coming alive as soon as you pay attention to this again. And those great authors who weave all these storylines together? They let you build your own expectations, do your own mental risk assessments. When something unexpected happens in the plot, you learn from it.
