Innovating Reading and Taste on the Go!: Attitude is Everything!

Saturday, 1 April 2023

Attitude is Everything!

"Attitude is everything" is a notion which all of us are told about and grown with. A right attitude makes our life blissful and a wrong one takes us down the drain. As is known to all of us, external factors add up to our "born with attitude". Figure this out - We meet so many people in our daily lives maybe during commuting, at a bank, a marketplace, in our workplace and so on. Which people have a positive impact on our subconscious brain? The ones who have the right attitude, the right approach - these are the people whom our brain perceives as right. And it is nothing to do with our relation with them. Our brain automatically sieves the clutter and the attitude lingers in our mind. As we grow in age, we often compare ourselves to our parents, especially when dealing with our children. What would have mother / father done when I had confronted them with this particular matter? What would have been their reaction? And the answer we get is their attitude (read - understanding) of the situation.

I work with a prestigious Engineering College in Mumbai - St. Francis Institute of Technology. It has so happened that being in this profession (I am a Librarian!) for so many years now, I have somehow knowingly nourished this attitude of conversing with people. I know you would read that twice! It is a misnomer that Librarians are quiet and bespectacled people who only like to make noise by banging the "Silence Please" plank in the library.

My conversations with students and colleagues not only makes me wiser but it adds to my attitude! Over the years, I have made friends and acquaintances and each one has their patented attitude. There are people who have been instrumental in molding my attitude and making me a better person. I have always believed that our patrons (its a library parlance) and books are the strong pillars of our library. So, here I give a list of TBR books which are a must read for all of us, irrespective of age and gender.