Happy Monday!
This week’s book is
It is a tremendous one full of reflections and timeless principles to live up to. The author is fascinating and I would definitely recommend giving him a follow. His thoughts on lifestyle design are simply amazing.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 47 seconds.
Here’s my top 10 takeaways:
1. Interpretation
The expression of ideas, and not the ideas in themselves, is what we seek when reading books.
We consider many ideas to be evident once we read them.
2. Confirmation Bias
We tend to like only the books that reinforce our convictions.
We rarely like the books filled with arguments that contradict them, no matter how adequate o well-documented they are.
3. Simplicity
The denser the argument, the easier the job to dismantle it.
Way too many sentences translate into a declaration of insecure reasoning.
4. Focus
Happy people cultivate stable, positive feelings; they don’t crave euphoric moments.
Happiness is about frequency, not impact or intensity.
5. Curation
Productivity is about eliminating bad habits, then adding good ones.
Knowledge is about filtering, rather than gathering, information.
6. Agency
The more we think and talk about the issues which we cant control, the more we neglect the ones which are in our control.
There is gold to be found in Stoicism.
7. Personal Monopoly
You cannot bring out the flavor of your intellect if you do not try to establish relations with disciplines that are not at all related to your specialization.
You do not need unique skills, but a unique combination of your skills.
8. Creativity
Creativity is not something we can acquire systematically. The most we can do is foster a state of mind that creativity may come to us.
The harder you try to be creative, the less you shall succeed.
9. True Learning
To thrive, read all the practical books that have survived more than 300 years.
The longer a book has survived, the higher its quality and timeless its learnings.
10. Ownership
In an abundant world, knowledge grows by elimination, rather than by addition.
It’s more about recycling rather than consuming or producing.
“Happiness consists in being able to understand yourself and the reality around you.”
— Vizi Andrei
Until next week,
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