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Johann Hari: “Next to me there were two men in, I guess, their mid-twenties. I shamelessly eavesdropped on their conversation while pretending to read David Copperfield. It was clear they had met on an app, and this was the first time they had seen each other in person. There was something about their conversation that…
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I will study the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin.
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“questioning is an attentional mechanism. We can all harness this mechanism; we can all shift attention and influence thoughts, feelings and actions, just by asking questions. You can choose to intentionally use this ability, or not, and this choice will have an impact on everything from your professional achievements to your personal relationships.” Lani Watson
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“The essence of Winifred Gallagher’s Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life is that the quality of your life depends to a surprising degree on what you choose to pay attention to. Gallagher’s central claim is not merely that attention improves productivity. It is much broader: your lived reality is largely constructed out of the things…
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I enjoy taking walks around the city where I grew up. Most of the time, I meet people I know on these walks and have a chat with them, or I talk to people I haven’t met before. It’s a nice way to deepen existing connections and develop new ones.
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In most situations, we can either dream about a beautiful and deeply fulfilling future, or we can focus on the present and intentionally design the situation we are in right now. More often than not, it is a dysfunctional belief to aim exclusively for some distant ideal. Instead, it tends to be far more effective…
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“The most important insight from the first chapter “Are We There Yet?” is, in my opinion, the reframing technique: Instead of the dysfunctional belief “Good enough isn’t good enough; I want more,” you should switch to “Good enough is GREAT—for now.” Why This Is So Central The chapter addresses a widespread problem: Many people are…
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“It’s dark because you’re trying too hard. Lightly, child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.” — Aldous Huxley
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By spending just three to five hours deeply reading a single book each week, you can read roughly fifty books per year.
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The next book review will be about Designing Your Work Life by Burnett and Evans.
Non-Fiction Notes 