Book Highlights - Frankl, Walmart, Running, Ryan Holiday
If I'm being totally honest, the only books I really wanted to read this week were Man's Search For Meaning and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Those just felt so satisfying to me.
I read 99% of the time at about 4:15am while laying on the couch. The lights are off and I use my phone light to see the pages. It's how I ease myself into the day. I love this routine. BUT, there are definitely certain books that just "feel good" at that time of day. Kind of like food.
With that said, I do really need to start munching away faster with some of these books I have in the rotation. There are just SO many that I want to get to and I told myself I need to finish a few before I start anymore. I might have a problem...
If you have the same problem, I hope you enjoy my eclectic collection of highlights from this week.
Books Of The Week
- ​Man's Search For Meaning​ By Viktor Frankl
- Made In America By Sam Walton
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running​ By Haruki Murakami
- Perennial Seller​ By Ryan Holiday
- Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.
- I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology, “homeostasis," i.e., a tensionless state. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
- Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else
- No matter how strong a will a person has, no matter how much he may hate to lose, if it's an activity he doesn't really care for, he won't keep it up for long. Even it he did, it wouldn't be good for him.
- The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
- Diversity and productivity are critical parts of that type of longevity. But they require the ability to experiment, to try new things, and to support a body of work, which in turn requires the development of independence and infrastructure. Short of a Trust fund or a patient, deep-pocketed patron, there is only one way to do that. A platform.
Until next time...
Readers are leaders,
