Just thought I'd let everyone know about bookdepository.com, because... You can find find some amazing cheap books there 🥺
After getting Rich Dad Poor Dad for 7eur, and seeing 12 Rules for Life for 9eur, I think I'm gonna start buying a non fiction a month 💸 Seems like a life changing goal ✨
Near the end of this book, which was becoming an exploration on what mankind could evolve toward, I get blasted with time travelling again. And this time, I truly get a sense of the size of Time, and the void sensation it creates for us humans, with regards both to a single lifetime and to the span of our existence as a species.
Master in Dental Medicine
Thesis (rough translation):
"Oral Health Effects of Cannabis"
Just thought I'd share the reason for my absence.
Statistics exam tomorrow, these are the different parts of the coursework.
Feel free to encourage the hell out of me.
5 pages in, and I must warn y'all Sci fi intellectuals: this book looks fu**in lit 🔥
panPredictable and boring. The characters all communicate and think with the same high level of speech; it's like they're all authors. Descriptions are lacking or non fluid/uncreative. The plot is pretty straightforward, with the obstacles to development being a simple matter of back and forth on evidence for the crimes.
I feel compelled to finish the books I start, but struggled with this one. Only read if there's not much else :/
Uitwaaien:
- (Dutch) to take a refreshing break outdoors, in windy weather
From statistics, in this case 🧮📊📈📉
Viseu, inner Portugal
so-soIt's not the most philosophically tight book you'll ever read, but it does reframe some things you might be stuck on, through suprising bolts of wisdom and fun. He forgets he's already said stuff and going with the flow makes him sound contradictory at times, so don't expect a lot of systematic reasoning or scientific accurateness. It's like your slightly enlightened uncle, who still gets annoyed, decided to tell you hard things about life.
"Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older"
Back in my hometown, changing up the art.
If anyone is familiar with Thomas Frank (first of all, congrats for being a self-improvement nerd 😎🤝), you might have heard of his friend Martin, who reads non-fiction in the mornings and fiction in the evenings.
So I tried this. Knowledge and inspiration earlier, to get my brain going. A story is dreamier and more pleasurable, and fits well at nighttime.
Plus, you look smarter, when you tell people you're reading two books 😅
Am I insane?
"Man is a rope tied between beast and the Superhuman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Really digging this book, it's like a game changer for reading other books 💯
so-soAltered traits is a thorough investigation on the current science of meditation. Goleman ("Emotional Intelligence") and Davidson, two lifelong friends, share stories of studying brains, enlightened hermits, and their own peace of mind. They present facts and dispell hype. Being accurate means more exposition, and entertainment comes the autobiographic bits. It's not a self-help book, but a compelling meditative one.
pickThis journey into the brain will challenge your intuitions about rationality, emotion and decision making. Damásio is a brilliant Portuguese neurologist, and through his medical practice, he's had the opportunity to study some truly remarkable cases. From these, he extrapolates hypothesis to explain how a 'normal' brain works. This book has a few dense, confusing bits, but if you make it through, you'll never see the mind-body dilemma the same.
