More on what I’m learning and how I am being as a result of consuming fewer books and less information.
Conversation Highlights
- Avoiding the Twitch (Anthony Ongaro)
- Going through books and podcasts much slower and multiple times
- Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom by Tara Brach
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- There is no where to get to
- Convergence of three things
- Consuming less information
- Spending the weekend away with my wife
- Feeling more present
- The importance of going away alone with your spouse
- Turn off your phone and the TV
- Be present to the moment and each other
- My book reading fast and road trip prepared me well for this weekend away
- Concentrated times of being make the subsequent actions cleaner and more direct
- A book is just a book
- It doesn’t matter how much or how little I read right now
- Peace comes from a place of not needing to accomplish anything or finish a book
- I don’t need to read another book to get to where I’m going right now
- Seeing an increasing level of confidence of knowing when to be in being or doing mode
- Skimming and scanning for interesting things doesn’t move thing forward in our lives
- It’s like consuming junk food if I want a fit body
- Personal Inquiry
- Do you really need to read another book to do what you need to do?
- Is getting more information simply a form of procrastination?
- How much of what you’ve read and learned have you implemented?
- What if you read fewer books this year and implemented more of what you learned in them?
- Creating negative associations to avoid behaviors or consumption that doesn’t serve me
- “Reading the news puts poison in my head”
- “Sugar (candy) reduces my immunity and makes me sick”
- When I don’t jam as much information into my head there is space
- From that space comes great ideas or actions to take
- Concluding Inquires
- Why are you consuming information?
- Is that information in service of something positive?
- Is what you are consuming giving you the outcome you want?
- What’s something valuable you have consumed or learned recently?
- Go through it again
- Implement it
Credits
- Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
- Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod
- Original photo source: Me
All songs licensed under Creative Commons
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