Join 📚 Roger's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what roger's read, .
Going to a deli for lunch? The popular ham and American cheese on a roll is all junk food. Most sliced deli meats contain sugar. Tuna, chicken, and egg salads usually have sugar, and even a plain vegetable salad with low-cal dressing contains sugar, as do croutons. Virtually all pasta, noodles, and similar items are junk food, as are bagels and rice cakes. How much junk food causes harm? That depends on how carbohydrate intolerant you have become. One bite can be enough for some people, especially those addicted to sugar. Certainly a junk food snack or meal can significantly alter one’s physiology in a negative way, storing more body fat and reducing our ability to burn it for energy.
The Overfat Pandemic
Philip Maffetone
If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being. As we’ve discussed, people often try to overcome this fear by simply repeating what has worked in the past. That leads nowhere—or, more accurately, it leads in the opposite direction of originality. The trick is to use our skills and knowledge not to duplicate but to invent.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
As my new manager, Perry’s primary task is finding me a new coach, someone to replace Nick. He draws up a short list of candidates, and at the top of the list is a guy who’s just written a book about tennis: Winning Ugly. Perry hands me the book, urges me to read it. I shoot him a dirty look. Thanks, no thanks. No more school for me. Besides, I don’t need to read the book. I know the author, Brad Gilbert. I know him well. He’s a fellow player. I’ve faced him many times, including weeks ago. His game is the opposite of mine. He’s a junker, meaning he mixes speeds, uses change of pace, misdirection, guile. He has limited skills, and takes a conspicuous pride in this fact. If I’m the classic underachiever, Brad’s the consummate overachiever. Rather than overpowering opponents, he frustrates them, preys on their flaws. He’s preyed on me plenty. I’m intrigued, but it’s not feasible. Brad’s still playing. In fact, due to my surgery and my time away from the game, he’s ranked higher than I. No, Perry says, Brad is nearing the end of his career. He’s thirty-two, and maybe he’s open to the idea of coaching. Perry repeats that he’s deeply impressed with Brad’s book and thinks it contains the kind of practical wisdom I need.
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise