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mikemcquaid's Reviews (215)
I’m quite a black-and-white/binary thinker on things. I always want a hard-and-fast “rule” I can apply to my entire life like “never lie under any circumstance”.
“How to Live” was great because it was essentially 27 self help “books” around my way of thinking. All of them resonated in the first couple of paragraphs, and induced a sense of dread by the end where I realised if that’s the path I chose, how much I value would be left on the table.
It helped me to think that there’s nothing wrong with having goals or priorities but the “I live by X rule and if that means my family/friends/mental health suffer as a result: so be it” is, to me, a pretty suboptimal way to live.
“How to Live” was great because it was essentially 27 self help “books” around my way of thinking. All of them resonated in the first couple of paragraphs, and induced a sense of dread by the end where I realised if that’s the path I chose, how much I value would be left on the table.
It helped me to think that there’s nothing wrong with having goals or priorities but the “I live by X rule and if that means my family/friends/mental health suffer as a result: so be it” is, to me, a pretty suboptimal way to live.
