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Until recently, I did CrossFit. Now I have a personal trainer. I get it: most people who work all day and come home to cook dinner and take care of kids don’t have that luxury. Absent personal training, there are a ton of great fitness apps out there. As you get older, it’s more about injury prevention. To be clear, relationships (including with yourself) matter more than anything. But a close second is your relationship with the only temple you’ll ever have: your body.
Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway
The fact that he would intentionally embark on a twenty-five-year project struck me as remarkable. Every ambitious professional I knew in finance was trying to get rich tomorrow, but very few people were thinking twenty years out, thirty years out, or forty years out. The precept is that while you might be lucky and get rich quickly, it is wiser to plan to get rich slowly.
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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