A biography — from the Greek word bios, meaning “life,” and graphos, meaning “write” — is an account of a person’s life.
Reading a great biography (or autobiography) can be as exciting as your favorite thriller, provide more valuable and useful lessons than most self-help best sellers and offer more professional development wisdom than you can likely apply.
Leadership expert Kevin Eikenberry offers these five reasons for choosing to read biographies:
●They allow you to stand on the shoulders of giants.
●They remind you that history repeats itself.
●They promote self-discovery.
●They allow you to see the world in new ways.
●They give you mentors at a distance.
To better showcase the library’s biography collection, we recently moved it from the left rear corner of the library to the front near the movies.
See a copy of the library's layout.>>
Come check it out. With over 900 biographies in our collection, you are sure to find someone of interest!
See Sandra Dreaden's current recommendations.>>
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: DREADEN: 5 reasons why reading biographies is good for you