Excellent Advice For Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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If you need to place an item elsewhere – say to charge a device on the opposite wall – put a few larger pieces next to it. Why not pick up the latest guidebook on your city or town, and spend a weekend exploring it through the eyes of the tourist? I'm an ex-marketing executive turned self-education entrepreneur after an existential crisis in 2015. Unless you choose a monastic existence tucked away on some remote mountain, you’ll spend a significant slice of time interacting with your fellow human beings. His new book for Viking/Penguin is The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

To be an exceptional conversationalist, focus on listening – to the subtext just as much as the words themselves. Memorize the rule of three here too: you can last three weeks without food, three days without water, but only three hours without temperate shelter. Trust the 3-star product reviews because they tell both the good and the bad, which is the real state for most things. Every so often, you'll pause and reflect and want to remember something that struck you as if for the first time as insightful unexpected timely yet timeless wisdom.

Reading it reminded me of reading Proverbs: the more you sit with each writing, the more you enjoy their depth.

The advice ranged from the optimal size of a back patio to be utilized, to overarching life purpose advice. He has wisdom for career, relationships, parenting, and finances, and gives guidance for practical matters ranging from travel to troubleshooting.He is the founder of the legendary WIRED magazine, worked with Stewart Brand on Whole earth catalog and so on. Essentially 'chicken soup for the soul' in feeling, meets inspiration quote posted on social, it's a book that makes you want to highlight every little saying. With parables and quotes that focus on what matters most, this book is like a compass that points readers in the right direction. That is precisely what Kevin Kelly gathers in Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier ( public library) — an herbarium of learnings that began as a list he composed on his 68th birthday for his own young-adult children, a list to which he kept adding with each lived year. If specializing in the esoteric doesn’t feel right for you, consider prototyping versions of more conventional approaches.