How to read an author's mind?

Reading through thousands of words and a half thousand pages, for me, has long been an average read of a single author. Among such maze of scripts, my conscience has always been tracking the inner trails of the author's mind that led him or her to declare their claims. As if, such claims, per se, were not sufficient to satisfy my curiosity. I always realized that I have practiced such habit of mind reading unconsciously and spontaneously. As if, I was asking myself:  How could that fellow author reach such conclusions which have skipped my own mind?

My vice, of mind reading, extends to re-reading my own mind  when discovering an obvious solution to a problem that has lingered unduly for long time due to my inability to see the obvious way out of a conflict. Such was the case for billions of fellow humans along millions of years of evolution. At certain point, while studying medical psychiatry and observing cases of schizophrenia, I got a sense that normal people are severely shackled by their own sanity, to the extent that reasons are as scarce as the individual's exposure to them. A schizophrenic patient could easily transcend the shackles of sanity into a realm of infinite alternatives. 

Albert Einstein was an example of such unshackled human mind. Einstein's son was institutionalized with the crippling drain of schizophrenia. Einstein retains the best of both worlds; sanity and oddity. Einstein's odd mind annoyed his fellow scientists who had to attend to his unrestrained fugue, bridging the boundaries of rationality.  Einstein dared to call quanta, energy particles, when the original German inventor of quanta; Max Planck, has missed such precious catch that made Einstein an odd, deranged Jewish scientist who dared to violate the foundation of physical sciences. Few years later, Max Planck would first win the Noble Prize in Physics long before Einstein was awarded the same, yet of other scientific accomplishment.

Albert Einstein went further to claim that heat, light, and other sorts of radiations must originate from loss of mass. Einstein's theory implied that: when fuel burns, there must be an unaccountable minute loss of mass that corresponds to the amount of radiation, beyond the classical conservation of masses. Only an odd and extreme mind could have reached those obvious and clear ideas that have long skipped the human mind for millions of years. 

Albert Einstein epitomizes the unshackled human mind that roams freely past the boundaries of conventional  reasoning. What does that has to do with our topic?

In fact, all people suffer from the restraints of conventional wisdom.  Personally, I wrote the book of Essentials of Weightlifting and Strength Training after 30 years of hard work, mostly spent in figuring out how to piece together such overwhelming volume of information in a readable book. Many fellows believed that specialized weightlifting could not be taught in a book. My best coaches spent their lives in the weight rooms, marveled on the music of metal plates slamming into the platform. No one thought about transferring those great experiences to those who might never have access to such joy of refining human body, mind, and soul through resistance training in structured and planned routines.

After squeezing the paper size of the book to fit into a half thousand pages, by reducing the font size and line spacing, increasing the number of lines per page and the number of words per line, I still believe that there is too much that was not told and must be.  Sjaak Smorenburg, a fellow from the Netherlands, happened to cross my roads along his own journey in strength training,  I and Smorenburg managed to tell  some of the untold ideas, with plenty of videos and illustrations. Among our heavily texted books, none was sold as good as our Illustrated Weightlifting Attic. We could not figure out why readers would purchase a book filled with photos, each was captioned by few words, while the in -depth books were rarely been sold. It is true that an image tells what thousands of words do. But, with images, one must rely on his/her imagination in order to construct the life-long trail that led to such frozen moment on the paper.

Between the lines of my own text, readers reached very interesting conclusions, all of which were as true as I meant them to be but failed to state that as clear as the readers viewed them. One great, yet hidden idea, was the concept of space and time and how the two relate to mass and energy. I struggled with such relationship and made my best to show the reader my dilemma with my own interpretation. 

Another, great and hidden idea was my "T" description of the human axis, with the spine making the vertical and the arms the horizontals of the T. A reader was able to guess my inner thought that the T-shape was meant to protect the lungs and heart at the crossing of the T and that weightlifting's ultimate goal was to keep the T from drooping into hunched back and sagging shoulders. 

Yet, there remains my unrelenting desire to convey the most simple idea that lifting weights is the main mission of man, and every thing else is meant to support that mission.  You cannot tell that to sane people who believe in conventional wisdom unless they live around hospital rooms where many patients fantasize about being able to lift their own limbs, let alone their whole body.