Welcome to the 26th edition my friends. I promised myself that I would stop writing this newsletter if I cannot hit 200 subscribers after I have written the first 25th issue. I was stuck around the 180s and after the post 25 now I have crashed the 200 benchmark. Cheers to all of you sharing my desire to spread the information worth sharing.
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Start your weekend with some existential notes:
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Look at this tweet to see whose routine is most like yours. Unfortunately I am a white collar so you know my daily routine but if I have super powers my life would become like Beethoven. Up early in the morning around 6 and be done with the work around 2 PM. After that, it is time to catch up on life.
Here is some good-packed advice for the ones who are in their 20s. I think it also applies to a broader range of age.
My favs:
Learn to enjoy your own company.
Quit procrastinating with self-help books.
Get in the gym.
If you have money, invest in coaching from someone who’s where you want to be in life.
This is a fabulous thread on psychology with great simplistic visuals.
My fav visual from the thread:
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📘 1 Book Suggestion:
Existentialism: A Beginner's Guide:
I could not find the English version of the book so that I can summarize it properly so this week I will just stay with the suggestion.
Everyone on this newsletter knows my love for existentialists and this book was one of the helpers for me to understand what they are trying to tell us.
I will leave you some favorite quotes:
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." — Albert Camus. (Chills)
“Life begins on the other side of despair.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
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I got some reading this week. Let’s see my favs:
This was a long read. Totally worth it. I considered myself to have read a book after finishing this article.
Best highlights:
“We can discover this meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.” - Viktor Frankl
What I’m suggesting is you stop wanting so badly to be extraordinary and focusing on what would make it special, in order to actually start living. Stop rejecting your life as it is and look at it head on.
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prioritize action over abstraction. Commit to acting in line with what you want to want before wanting and soon enough you’ll find yourself wanting that thing.
Use mimetic desire to your benefit by surrounding yourself with people who already want what you want to want.
Good advice from the people who managed to have marriages over 25 years.
Choose your own adventure
Ask for space when you need it
Never assume
Have your own hobbies
I love rules and lists. Oh God stop me. Here is a good one.
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” — Rheinhold Niebuhr
“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.” — Chuang Tzu
“All great thoughts are conceived while walking.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
This was a good collection of the best patents who made the world what it is.
This is not an article but great list of books you have to read. Not just read, internalize it try to understand what they are trying to tell you.
My favs:
1984
Catch-22
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Today’s recommendation comes with a list of its own. I bumped into this list on Letterboxd and glad I did.
My favs:
“I walked the path of life and I have to say, you will face with difficulties. But you have to have an open mind. Don't be like a bull hitting his horns all over the walls of the room. Life isn't just about what you do, it's more about how you do it.” - Nai Nai, Farewell
+ What is the one thing that will improve your life apart from sleeping?
-Different life.
📜 2 Quotes:
“Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of his audience if it were known to him that, with the exception of one or two, it consisted entirely of deaf people?” –
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
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This website is super fun. If you love finding new music worth listening to, this is perfect.
Go to Poland 60s.
Go to Sweden 80s.
Go to England 30s.
Come to Turkey 90s.