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My Thoughts on the Books I Read!

The Antidote

Author: Oliver Burkeman Publication Date: November 2012
2023-11-27 2 min read Sincheenz
Like his other book, “4000 Weeks”, the author has managed to convey intensive and thought-provoking concepts with levity and humor. The book starts off by poking fun at motivational speakers and explains, through funny anecdotes, the consequences of trying to avoid negative thoughts and only thinking positively. It moves on to explaining Stoicism and why embracing the negative would be far easier than avoiding it. This was something new to me, and it did make sense. Continue reading

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4000 Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author: Oliver Burkeman Publication Date: August 2021
2023-11-05 1 min read Sincheenz
The author has presented an interesting perspective on life. The concept of finitude is not unknown to us, but we do not acknowledge it. Time is not an external entity but an integral part of us; we control it. The author has succeeded in addressing this issue well. The parables and anecdotes are amusing and captivating. I particularly like the concept of the “joy of missing out”. Our choices are the result of the choices we make, including the ones we choose to miss out on. Continue reading

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