The Allegory Of Life

The book tells the story of a knight who lives obsessed with showing that he is good, loving and generous. One of the problem that he has it was that he was wearing so much his armor that one day his family almost did not even recognize him. His wife was fed up and she told him to take it away, but he tried different possibilities to take it away first one was with the strongest man in the kingdom but no matter how much he tried he couldn’t at all, afterwards he decided to leave to find his king, but instead of him he met a buffoon, who told him that the only person who could help him was called “Merlin”.
He told him that when he reached the top of the mountain that was behind that road he would free himself of his armor. In this way he would
find three castles: Castle of silence, castle of knowledge, castle of will and temerity.
A squirrel and Rebekah, a messenger pigeon, would go with him on his way.
This book inspired me a lot because I learned many things from it, if you can’t find yourself others can’t know you neither, because it is very difficult to know yourself better as you can. The only way that you can achieved is through meditation and for that you should spend a lot of time. In our company MOTION, in my view we should spend time to find our self-better, otherwise we will have problems in the way to understand people.
The book resembles the allegory of our life. We put something partially alien to us to win others: studies, appearances, clothes ... and we make them so connatural that they become a second skin. Nobody misses it because everyone has their own armor, carved for years. Until one day we have to remove it and it gives us fear to face reality.
Here I see a clear change from school to university, in school they gave you "almost everything" and in the university and especially in this degree (LEINN) you have to find yourself life “learning by doing”.
To sum up, I would say that this book is simple and quick to read, because the vocabulary is very current and easy to understand and the book is short so it is not heavy to read
it.
These are some of the phrases that I learned through the book that could be helpful in my daily life in the company, such as "Life is good when you accept it" (you should your situation to succeed your life in the perfect way) "Most people are trapped in armor" (we need to face our fears as a team).