More on what I’m learning and how I am being as a result of consuming fewer books and less information.

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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
    • Peace that comes from it
  • 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

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