Title: Lessons From Tales: What We Can Learn From Short Stories And Jokes
Author: Eric Wei
Publisher: PartridgeSingapore
ISBN: 978-1-5437-5757-6
Pages: 114
Genre: Short Stories
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
About the Author:
Eric Wei is an avid reader. He likes books on philosophy, psychology, new thoughts, quotes, wisdom tales and jokes. Besides collecting inspirational wise sayings, Eric Wei loves to compile meaningful short stories and jokes with underlying insights or lessons. This book is the result of such collections over the years.
About the Book:
Stories, including jokes, can provide useful lessons if you look for them.
Here is a compilation of 180 such stories and jokes. They are from various sources – books, jokes, Aesop’s Fables and other old tales. I have re-written them and drawn insightful lessons from these stories and jokes.
There are stories intended to encourage you. There are moral stories extolling certain values. There are also stories with lessons on motivation, human communications, perceptions, pride and the impermanent nature of all things. You will also learn not to be deceived by appearance, and the peril of trying to please everybody. Seemingly innocent conversations between two children or a two-liner joke can also teach us a thing or two about human nature.
Enjoy the stories. Several of them are hilarious. At the same time, see what insights you can draw from them.
