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Flatland: A Parable of Spiritual Dimensions by Edwin Abbott

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Key Takeaways
  1. "I - alas, I alone in Flatland - know now only too well the true solution of this mysterious problem [what is the origin of light]; but my knowledge cannot be made intelligible to a single one of my countrymen; and I am mocked at - I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of three Dimensions - as if I were the maddest of the mad!"
  2. As the Square entered Spaceland - "Either this is madness or it is Hell...it is Knowledge; it is Three dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily."
  3. "That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own world, his own Universe...Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
What I got out of it
  1. There are always more ways to view any situation but often we are blind to them and even if we saw it, might not recognize it. Always look for points of view or people who disagree with you or challenge you to look at a problem differently. That is where you learn and where you grow
Read Flatland