Sloww - Meta Ideas of a Meaningful Life
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
sloww.co A guy turning from midlife-burnout-crisis to the meta question: how to live a meaningful life.
He starts reading books, learn and learn and excerpt and coming up with the life goal of synthesizing information from the web for others.
He wrote a book about successful learning methods titled make it stick
Ikigai diagram, and re-purposing it: find meaning in what you do. Have multiple purposes. Make it about the process. Create something "doing" vs just "being".
Lifestyle design - unless you're picking something you like doing, 40 hours a week NET time spent in something meaningless is about 34% of your waking moments.
“Most creative individuals find out early what their best rhythms for sleeping, eating, and working, and abide by them even when it is tempting to do otherwise.
They wear clothes that are comfortable, they interact only with people they find congenial, they do only things they think are important. Of course, such idiosyncrasies are not endearing to those they have to deal with … But personalizing patterns of action helps to free the mind from the expectations that make demands on attention and allows intense concentration on matters that count.”
Part of lifestyle design is how to Get rich slowly A fit body (health), a calm mind (mental health), a house full of love (close relationships). These things cannot be bought—they must be earned. Even if you have all the money in the world, you can’t buy those three things. You have to cultivate them. They can bring you a lot more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will.
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