My knowledge will be larger. My influence will be greater. Some of my weakness and limitation of ignorance will be overcome. In other words, there’s a sense that somehow my life will go better, and I will be a stronger, capable person. And, of course, for someone else, it may not be books but clothing or tools or technical gadgets. And in their case, then, the sense of life-giving empowerment would be that they would somehow now look better or be more productive or be more cool with the most up-to-date