This week I released the jacked nerd reading list. There’s 11 books. Click here to download your copy.
Here’s what’s new this week.
Obvious Choice Podcast Episodes:
*If you only listen to one, make it this one.
Money
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The happiest and most successful people that I know are decisive. They make decisions, don’t look back, and live with the consequences. The others live in a state of constant imprisonment, shackled by their own indecision.
2.
The accumulation of possessions indirectly takes the steering wheel of your life, driving you down ill-advised paths. Buying more stuff inches you towards ‘needing’ a house with more space, perhaps leading you outside of a city, farther away from loved ones. Owning a second car makes it easier to accept a morning commute, wasting hours of precious time a week.
Health
1.
The less secure we feel, the more we pack. Left to our own devices, we fill our bags with unnecessary necessities.
It’s not because we need these things, it’s because we’re scared to be without them.
“Shaving down one’s pack weight was a process of sloughing off one’s fears.” Wrote Robert Moor in On Trails. “Each object a person carries represents a particular fear: of injury, of discomfort, of boredom, of attack.”
2.
Even with 4 kids, my mom made time to consistently exercise.
At 76, she plays on the floor with her 8 grandchildren while many of her friends are tired and sick.
When you’re busy, fitness doesn’t seem like a priority until one day, it’s too late.
Relationships
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My house isn’t large. We have one family area and no basement. As a result, we share space. Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I want a place to read in peace and quiet. But I like that we don’t quite have enough space. I like that we’re forced to overlap, be with one another, and make it work.
A Few Good Quotes from a Great Book
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
“The core of the illusion is that we believe we understand the past, which implies that the future also should be knowable, but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do.”
-From Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahnamen
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Jonathan Goodman
Coach. Author. World explorer. But mostly, Dad.
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