More. Wealth – Years – Power – Happiness. The human condition cannot abide sameness. Contentment in less. But with a twist, this bio-drive can be rerouted. Not the pursuit of more for me. The pursuit of more for us. And the pursuit of more for us is simply the pursuit of better.
Matthew McConaughey’s 50 years of adventure. The view from the half-way house. A guide to livin. McConaughey’s autobiographical work seems an endless stream of adventures. It shows appetite. Hunger. It reminds me to demand more from life. The meat and the experience of this read is in the stories, but the purpose is to convey eight principles for livin. It’s a handbook that reads like fiction. Vitamins in jelly beans. It creates no FOMO....
Lessons from the presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin. What an incredibly rich description of 4 lifetimes of transformational leadership by 4 wildly different individuals with each of their own leadership styles, strategies and tactics to learn from. This is one of those reads that’s so dense, juicy and packed with gold nuggets, wisdom and perspective, that it’s completely impossible to extract the maximum value from it without dedicating years of re-reading and practice....
I read books in a way that makes them all heavy. Every single sentence is examined for a potentially life changing insight or nugget of information. It borders on insane, and makes reading way more difficult than it has to be. But it’s an investment. Because most stuff, when I come at it with the right mindset, actually can be life-changing. This is the style I apply to everything I consume (except podcasts for some reason) – maximal extraction....
In the physical realm, if one is traveling at speed X in a specific direction, and the direction is immediately changed to a perpendicular direction, instant death occurs even at low velocity. That’s how much a change in direction means. If the new direction were 180 degrees opposite from the original direction, the threshold gets lower. In the mental realm, we’re constantly changing directions, and the less related a new direction is, the more jarring it feels....