High Performance Lifestyle
How do you live a good life? Or even, how do you live?
These are the kind of questions that philosophers have been pondering for more than 20,000 years. It’s crazy to look back into history, questioning the different philosophies of how a man should spend is mortal life. Sometimes, it is already decided, and you would grow up to become whatever fate has handed you. Whether as a slave, a Soldier, or a craftsman forged to become what you must. [Read more…]
2017 is the year of everything.
This is the year we answer the question: what is the right path to everything?
Humans do not inherit an operating system for life, we are instead embroiled with instincts and emotions.
I have realized this, not only in a year of managing the content for this blog, but also in the many years I have spent contemplating my life and its forward or backward projections.
The right way to do things, or do anything, has never been transparent. If you read, and you should, you’ll quickly realize that the world’s most successful people choose to go against the common way of doing things.
Take a deeper look into Western society and you’ll realize again that the suicide rates for this part of the world are astronomical, despite our cushy lives and our endless opportunities.
The way we are told to live is based on a false premise. It is peppered with hedonistic thought, it is a neverending quest for more.
Perhaps, the worst way for a person to live is to constantly chase more and more things that never create satisfaction. Look around and you’ll sadly discover, that is where most people are.
By Norman Doidge | Link to book
“One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior- surely one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century.”
Learning adjusts genes which creates changes in behavior. [Read more…]
My goal was to read 300 books.
I didn’t come close but I learned a lot about what it takes to read 1-2 books a week. It’s not easy and it takes total dedication. Even more when you expect to extract lessons from those books and when you want to translate knowledge into action.
Ryan Holiday talks about reading all the time. The key: embrace the process.
If you aim to read a book a week, then you must love reading. You must love the feeling that learning something new gives you. It’s very subtle, but every avid reader knows the feeling very much.
Check out The Outwork Book Club for everything in 2017.
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
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Note: My first post here discusses how the Outwork Book Club works. The home page for the book club is here, with archives, previous books discussed, and additional book recommendations.
by Simon Sinek | Link to book
What’s more revealing is that Sinek routinely talks about his experiences with the Marines, yet he thanks the Air Force on page one of his latest book, Leaders Eat Last.
It is apparent that his message is spreading through all branches of the Military and that what he has to say about leadership matters. It is not just the Military that is taking note, organizations everywhere are starting to paying attention to what he is saying: Start With Why. [Read more…]
