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Hi peeps. Happy Friday. Still stuck on my 5/2 exchange so I'm still saying TGIF ._. My coworker next to me is eating and he's making chewing noises, I wanna throw the keyboard at him.
I just read "Keep Going" by Austin Kleon in a couple commutes. Short little book, those nice little reads with some big letter quotes that feel like some warm sunshine and a hug and helps you take it slowly and enjoy today; it's targeted towards creatives and I've been reading books on art lately as I try to make it a stronger habit to make myself sit and create.
But it wasn't just about art, and there were a few golden nuggets as he sourced a lot of the teachings from a lot of people from the past, like Henry David Thoreau, Seneca, Ralph Waldo Emerson, I mean a lot of people really.
I know this is a bit farfetched but knowing a lot of you guys have read on stoicism, some philosophy and stuff like that I thought you could recommend some titles that keep me on that path, based on a few of the things I've highlighted, I don't wanna call it stoicism because it's not just that. Idk let's try anyway:
Well I got Henry's Journals on my list. As well I got a book that supposedly talks about 100+ creative daily routines ("Daily Rituals: How Artists Work"). Ah, and the letters of Van Gogh to Theo seem super promising too from several extracts I've found in several places.
I thought I had highlighted more passages--I guess I forgot to.
Does this give you an idea? Reflecting on men, their virtues and values, etc. I know a lot of the great Greek philosophers talked about those subjects but I wouldn't know which one to grab. Anyone a bit more knowledgeable regarding this?
By the way 1) I read Unscripted last year.
By the way 2) This is me reading on my free time as leisure not reading to procrastinate on action etc.
I just read "Keep Going" by Austin Kleon in a couple commutes. Short little book, those nice little reads with some big letter quotes that feel like some warm sunshine and a hug and helps you take it slowly and enjoy today; it's targeted towards creatives and I've been reading books on art lately as I try to make it a stronger habit to make myself sit and create.
But it wasn't just about art, and there were a few golden nuggets as he sourced a lot of the teachings from a lot of people from the past, like Henry David Thoreau, Seneca, Ralph Waldo Emerson, I mean a lot of people really.
I know this is a bit farfetched but knowing a lot of you guys have read on stoicism, some philosophy and stuff like that I thought you could recommend some titles that keep me on that path, based on a few of the things I've highlighted, I don't wanna call it stoicism because it's not just that. Idk let's try anyway:
"A dip into Henry David Thoreau's Journals paints a portrait of a plant-loving man who is overeducated, underemployed, upset about politics, and living with his parents-- he sounds exactly like one of my fellow millenials!"
Well I got Henry's Journals on my list. As well I got a book that supposedly talks about 100+ creative daily routines ("Daily Rituals: How Artists Work"). Ah, and the letters of Van Gogh to Theo seem super promising too from several extracts I've found in several places.
"Solvitur ambulando", said Diogenes the Cynic, two millenia ago. "It is solved by walking"
"Every day is a potential seed that we can grow into something beautiful. There's no time for despair. 'The thing to rejoice in is the fact that one had the good fortune to be born,' said the poet Mark Strand. 'The odds against being born are astronomical.' None of us know how many days we'll have, so it'd be a shame to waste the ones we get.
I thought I had highlighted more passages--I guess I forgot to.
Does this give you an idea? Reflecting on men, their virtues and values, etc. I know a lot of the great Greek philosophers talked about those subjects but I wouldn't know which one to grab. Anyone a bit more knowledgeable regarding this?
By the way 1) I read Unscripted last year.
By the way 2) This is me reading on my free time as leisure not reading to procrastinate on action etc.
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