The Daily Stoic offers Stoic insights and exercises, a short meditation for each day of the year, paired with practical commentary on applying Stoic principles to modern life. I try to read it daily and very highly recommend it.
7 of my favorite Stoic lessons from February:
1) Strength is the ability to maintain a hold of oneself.
2) Steady Your Impulses:
3) You don't have to have an opinion (about a negative thing):
4) Protect Your Peace of Mind:
5) Prepare for the Storm:
6) Circumstances have no care for our feelings:
7) Cultivating indifference where other grow passion:
I will be writing a weekly newsletter “Learn, Unlearn and Relearn” from early or mid of March.
It will include book lessons from my favorite reads, inspiring passages, reading tips, and more.
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, this book explores the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events and will change the way you look at the world.
2) The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
It explores and establishes deep connections between the laws of nature, knowledge, and the human potential for progress.
Highly recommended book by @naval as well.
3) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Told in language we all can understand, it plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God; where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected.
What a phenomenal read. It unpacks the neuroscience of reward and in so doing, enable us to find a better, healthier balance between pleasure and pain.
From Dr. Andrew Huberman recommendations.
7 lessons from the book:
Dopamine was first identified as neurotransmitter in the human brain in 1957.
It is not only the neurotransmitter involved in reward processing, but it plays a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the pleasure of the reward itself.
Wanting more than liking.
High dopamine substances trigger the release of dopamine in our brain's reward pathway.