"Mel's book, Turn the Page, is a short yet impressively practical guide on how to achieve transformation by reading old books. Mel shows you how to create something extraordinary, in the eye of the beholder, out of the mundane and ordinary. It's about juxtaposing old and new assumptions, novel insights and enduring ideas and coupling them together with the three practices described therein, to create a life worth living. A life of transformation. Through freewriting, discursive meditation, and the Zettelkasten method, I was able, perhaps for the first time, to slow down and question the dominant narratives and mental models that I use to operate in the world. What I learned was that many of my so-called ideas were not in fact mine but products of hegemonic influence. So, I took Mel's advice and ventured in the past to shape my present."