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Do you like meditation or don’t you? Memento mori
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4.5 stars. I can't quite describe how this book affected me, but this review gives a great overview I wholeheartedly agree with.
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Rarely have I ever felt that a book was written so specifically for me. It is a balm for my anxious soul.
I went in blind, genuinely looking forward to time management tips, and as it goes… “you don’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.”
I went in blind, genuinely looking forward to time management tips, and as it goes… “you don’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.”
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informative
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reflective
informative
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lighthearted
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Yes yes yes
Wow I think I could host a whole book club on this book and the perspective it gives the reader. Notable tidbits:
What you pay attention to will for you define what reality is
You only ever get to feel certain about the future when it’s already in the past. No one ever “gets” 4000 weeks because you just find yourself thrown into the current moment. Our life is just a sequence of moments in time
We treat life itself as valuable only in as far as it lays the groundwork for something else c 8
Idleness is an obligation to have time that isn’t productive and is actually leisure
Results can’t be everything bc results come later. And later is too late. C9 last line
Compulsive acceleration makes us spiral to do more (clean out inbox just to see a new email). Need to keep this strive for productivity in check.
We need a greater social recognition of time w simultaneous vacation time that overlaps w our friends, keeping sabbath, etc
Part 2 c 12 hard to organize civic engagement bc we’re so decentralized and we have free time but it isn’t the same as when others are free.
Your time can be too much your own
There’s no point in waiting to live until you’ve achieved something or received validation from someone else
Abandoning hope is an affirmation and liberation bc you no longer need to tell yourself that uncertainty and tragedy don’t exist and can focus on what actually counts for the impact you can have. afterword
Experience mundane daily activities with twice the intensity in noticing the small things to make pseudo novel moments and make time seem to slow down
Wow I think I could host a whole book club on this book and the perspective it gives the reader. Notable tidbits:
What you pay attention to will for you define what reality is
You only ever get to feel certain about the future when it’s already in the past. No one ever “gets” 4000 weeks because you just find yourself thrown into the current moment. Our life is just a sequence of moments in time
We treat life itself as valuable only in as far as it lays the groundwork for something else c 8
Idleness is an obligation to have time that isn’t productive and is actually leisure
Results can’t be everything bc results come later. And later is too late. C9 last line
Compulsive acceleration makes us spiral to do more (clean out inbox just to see a new email). Need to keep this strive for productivity in check.
We need a greater social recognition of time w simultaneous vacation time that overlaps w our friends, keeping sabbath, etc
Part 2 c 12 hard to organize civic engagement bc we’re so decentralized and we have free time but it isn’t the same as when others are free.
Your time can be too much your own
There’s no point in waiting to live until you’ve achieved something or received validation from someone else
Abandoning hope is an affirmation and liberation bc you no longer need to tell yourself that uncertainty and tragedy don’t exist and can focus on what actually counts for the impact you can have. afterword
Experience mundane daily activities with twice the intensity in noticing the small things to make pseudo novel moments and make time seem to slow down
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced