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The lady in Chicago survived, she told me, through stories. Which is at the core of traditional therapy: retelling the family saga. Talk about it, the old wisdom says, and you get better. From narratives about childhood, this woman manufactured a self, neither cut off from her past nor mired in it. In our solitary longing for some reassurance that we’re behaving okay inside fairly isolated families, personal experience has the possibility to transform both the tellers of it and the listeners to it.

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

2. TRUSTING THE MOMENT Most of us spend the bulk of our time caught up in thoughts of the past or the future—which can be dangerous if your job is winning basketball games. Basketball takes place at such a lightning pace that it’s easy to make mistakes and get obsessed with what just happened or what might happen next, which distracts you from the only thing that really matters—this very moment. Practicing Zen not only helped me become more acutely aware of what was happening in the present moment but also slowed down my experience of time because it diminished my tendency to rush into the future or get lost in the past. Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh talks about “dwelling happily in the present moment,” because that’s where everything you need is available. “Life…

Eleven Rings

Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

COOL-DOWN The purpose of the cool-down is to gradually return your body’s systems to homeostasis, reduce the core temperature, metabolize some of the waste products, and relax psychologically from the focus of the workout. The higher the intensity of the workout (or race), the longer the cool-down should be. A long, low-intensity workout may not require any cool-down other than a couple of minutes’ walking at the end. After a high-intensity workout or race, a typical cool-down should be twenty to thirty minutes of the Recovery Zone or Zone 1.

Training for the Uphill Athlete

Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet

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