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{ Essentialism Application
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3 Sentence Summary
What are the crucial points in this book that make it iconic, ideas I want to remember for the rest of my life?
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Takes various lifestyle and productivity mindsets/practices and encompasses them into a single worldview in the form of the essentialist. Although I’ve come across virtually all of his advice in previous books, the structure and proposed ideology of being an essentialist is something easily adaptable and memorable, which will make it easy for me to remember and refer to these principles in my day to day life. Considering the fact that I’m his target demographic, the book was definitely an eye-opener, but what remains now is for me to buckle down and start the path.
Reading Log
- 2022-03-09
- Been a while since I read 30% in one sitting, especially in a shortened time lmao
- Feel like the ideas in the book are quite relevant to me and the shit ton of stuff I’m doing xd Now the real question is if I’m willing to adopt things
- I think focus is important, that’s why I do have school and portfolio as a priority while everything else fills the gaps
Principles
- Zen, the Reason of Unreason; The Wisdom of Confucius; the Torah; the Holy Bible; Tao, to Know and Not Be Knowing; The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation; As a Man Thinketh; The Essential Gandhi; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; the Book of Mormon; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius; and the Upanishads. There are a myriad of options. Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about what really matters.
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Possible Video Ideas
- essential journal and review