A batch of the best highlights from what Nathan's read, .
Research has suggested that mental rehearsal can prevent people from relapsing into bad habits such as smoking, excessive drinking, or overeating.
Made to Stick
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
YOUTH: How does one go about separating them? PHILOSOPHER: One does not intrude on other people’s tasks. That’s all.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
One man’s decision to change his life, instead of cursing fate, shook the whole pathological system of communist tyranny to its core. It crumbled entirely, not so many years later, and Solzhenitsyn’s courage was not the least of the reasons why. He was not the only such person to perform such a miracle. Václav Havel, the persecuted writer who later, impossibly, became the president of Czechoslovakia, then of the new Czech Republic, comes to mind, as does Mahatma Gandhi.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)