Every time I find a book enjoyable to listen to, the number of steps I walk increases. Or the time I do house chores for. I love putting the headphones on and listening to the story progress. My current listen, The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, narrated by Derek Jacobi, is one such book. With a good intriguing plot and wonderfully involved narration, I am having so much fun listening.
As a result, I am walking a lot more and keeping my home absolutely clean. A welcome side-effect.
I finished reading: The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Holiday Ryan today ๐
Laced with real-life examples and a corresponding lesson in each chapter, Ryan Holiday presents valuable insight into handling obstacles. Nicely structured in three sensible parts – perception, action and will – this is a good, practical guide to staying balanced without getting bogged down by roadblocks and failures in life. Ryan doesn’t want to make this a guide for stoic philosophy. Instead, he sprinkles the best of the lessons throughout the book. That helps keep things simple, which most books on Stoicism fail to do.
As he mentions towards the end, many people he tells the tale of “embodied the best practices of Stoicism without even knowing it”. Ryan recommends that just doing matters more. For his intention to not complicate the philosophy, he deserves credit.
I was so giddy watching the trailer for A Man Called Otto. I loved the original character Ove created by Fredrick Backman and am so excited to see Tom Hanks play him. Love it! And I can’t wait. Yay!
I loved Ove so much that I created my own character based on him in one of my short stories, Marvelling at Life. I wrote a few more after this one with Oas, my character. I always loved writing them. I am looking forward to this movie.
One of the problems with Twitter is that it became a lot bigger and important than just a fun social network. Like someone built a fun clicker to play with and others made it a switch that can trigger wars.
Aย lot ofย dev projects. Currently, cultivating my digital garden. I am moving my notes from all the places into a single location. Both at work and off work. The small wins help.
After I wrote about my changing music habits, I’ve tweaked my habits slightly. Earlier I asked my digital assistant to “play some music”. I now say “play my favorite music” or ask it play a specific playlist. This has helped.
Often my daughter asks me the meaning of a word unknown to her. Which is fine, but she doesn’t stop at that. She wants me to enact the meaning too. Like today she wanted me to enact what a character “squealing” would sound like. Unfortunately, I’m neither that good at English nor at acting. Sigh!
I figure, at the midway stage, India still isn’t in any position to be a contender to win the T20 World Cup. Or even to reach the finals, for that matter. They weren’t the favourites going in. They haven’t improved their chances much ๐
The Curious Bee and her friends celebrated Halloween yesterday โ she dressed up as a witch. She wanted herself to look scary, but I don’t think she can be. To my eyes, she looked so cute! Anyway, happy Halloween folks! ๐ง๐
Build my productivity system. As much as the p-word is hated, I need a process to manage the sheer amount of tasks vying for my attention.