The book is truly meant to be an introduction to understanding our own humanity. It deals with changing your perspective in order to see your mentality for what it is... you. The idea is to change your view before you try and change anything else, including yourself, because only then can you see that there is more to everything than what you assumed. We can and do assume what is important. But what if there is a lot more to us than our assumptions? The second book picks up where this one leaves off and discusses our humanity in depth. But that all important ability of ours to see our presumptuous nature, and deal with it honestly, has to exist before ever realizing what else is there.