What I Am Reading:
Comfort Is The Silent Killer Of Your Happiness
My motto is to always make myself uncomfortable. This article explains why a lot more eloquently than I ever have been able to. Things you’ll learn:The Nasty Things Comfort Does To UsYou’re Robbing Your Kids Of What They Need Most
Against Busyness and Surfaces: Emerson on Living with Presence and Authenticity
Two millennia after Seneca admonished against how living with haste and expectancy constricts our lives and more than half a century before Hermann Hesse made his case for the most important habit in living with presence, Emerson writes:
“Life goes headlong. Each of us is always to be found hurrying headlong in the chase of some fact, hunted by some fear or command behind us. Suddenly we meet a friend. We pause. Our hurry & embarrassment look ridiculous. Now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of our own heart until it supersedes sun & moon & solar system in its expanding immensity. The moment is all, in all noble relations.”
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
“Again, you might think ‘So what? I guess things are complicated but I can just notice the details as I run into them; no need to think specifically about this’. And if you are doing things that are relatively simple, things that humanity has been doing for a long time, this is often true. But if you’re trying to do difficult things, things which are not known to be possible, it is not true.
The more difficult your mission, the more details there will be that are critical to understand for success.”
Why a Hermès handbag can be a better investment than art
“If you were looking for a nice short-term investment in 2019, you may have been better off putting your money into one of Hermès’s rare handbags than the work of a long-expired painter, according to an analysis by global real-estate consultancy Knight Frank.”
What I am Watching:
How to deal with uncertainty like a poker champion
The Turkey Illusion - Professional risk taker’s teach you their art.
The Gene : An Intimate History on PBS
“The Gene: An Intimate History” brings vividly to life the story of today’s revolution in medical science through present-day tales of patients and doctors at the forefront of the search for genetic treatments, interwoven with a compelling history of the discoveries that made this possible and the ethical challenges raised by the ability to edit DNA with precision.
What I am Listening To:
Is There An Antidote To Stress? with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Dr. Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK and wants to change how medicine will be practiced for years to come. He hosts the biggest health podcast in Europe, Feel Better, Live More, which Apple has announced as one of the most downloaded new podcasts of the past year. His first book, How to Make Disease Disappear, is an international bestseller all over the world and has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide in just 18 months. His most recent book, the #1 bestseller, The Stress Solution, tackles what the WHO calls the health epidemic of our time—stress.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Bland discuss the importance of gut health for overall immune function. We know that being over a certain age can increase the risk for contracting or experiencing complications from COVID-19; we also know that gut health is essential in rejuvenating your immune system and that this is something people of all ages can work on. They also cover how vital your nutritional status is and compare it to a rainforest—the more diversity, the more stability—and how now, more than ever, is the time to focus on eating whole, real foods and not food-like substances
What I am Buying:
I’ve been looking for a watch that accurately gives me real-time heart-rate monitoring (and looks good). I’ve tried the fitbit and the apple watch but both of them were too inaccurate for me. They were also annoying in terms of either the face being too bright everytime I moved in bed (I sleep with my watch on) or having lots of features I thought I wanted but just ended up distracting me. I’ve had this watch for two months now and I have only taken it off twice to charge it! It was a little awkward getting used to its buttons and UI but that only took a day or two of learning curve. It’s arguably the most accurate heart-rate monitoring, best looking, longest charge, and readable fitness tracking watch out there!
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