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Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
we walk over to the pull-up bar for what he has coined “nickels and dimes.” We do five pull-ups (nickels) and then ten push-ups (dimes) “every minute on the minute.” We start every time the second hand is on the 12. If we finish in forty seconds, we then have twenty seconds of rest. We do this for ten minutes (fifty pull-ups and a hundred push-ups). However, by the time we get to four minutes, I have to drop my pull-up count to three. I can’t keep up. I’m a runner, but this is a totally different skill set. I assume most forty-three-year-old men aren’t doing eight pull-ups, let alone fifty.
Living With a SEAL
Jesse Itzler
Don’t we need instead to see that the swamplands are an inevitable and necessary counterpart to our conscious fantasies of power? Is it an accident that the more we have conquered in the outer world, the more the disquiet of our inner world? The ongoing curriculum of life does not demand that we avoid suffering; it asks instead that we live more meaningfully in the face of it. Despite the blandishments of popular culture, the goal of life is not happiness but meaning.
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
James Hollis
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