A short excerpt from a YouTube video discussing how reading—especially diverse personal accounts—exposes readers to different worldviews and personal lenses. The speaker uses Holocaust memoirs as an example, arguing that books expand perspective, foster empathy, and encourage lifelong curiosity or searching.
I think NER exposes you to a different worldview that you may not hold. And it gives you that ability to see something perhaps that you would have never seen. You can read a book about the Holocaust from five different people who experienced it in different ways, and then all of a sudden, you can have a conversation about that with somebody. And so now you're not just getting the facts as people would describe them to you. You're getting the personal lens in which they were felt and lived through. And that's where, you know, reading books, it's like it almost makes you a searcher. Once you realize that there is no end in sight, the world is this really limitless place.
