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📕 Book of The Week
100 ways to improve your writing By Gary Provost
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Worth exploring
1. Watch
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
This is so much awesome and I think it's the best entertaining speech I have ever listened to while not getting bored.
Spoiler alert ⚠️
In the talk professor, Andy Pausch last lecture talked about their childhood dreams how he achieved all of them and how he was able to make possible other's dreams and What he learned in his whole life. The cool thing is that despite he was suffered from cancer at that time, he has no guilt or sadness in his life. This is amazing 😍
Life is Great When It's Ending | The Philosophy of Seneca
One day, Seneca visited his house in the countryside after a long absence. He was baffled about how his estate was crumbling, and the garden trees had lost all their leaves.
He took it out on the landlord, who then explained that even though he did everything in his power to maintain the place, the trees and house were old. Bewildered about how fast his property had fallen apart, the reality of aging became apparent to Seneca.
2. Read
AI became the next-generation king
If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right
Abstract:
The relationship between money and happiness is surprisingly weak, which may stem in part from the way people spend it.
Drawing on empirical research, we propose eight principles designed to help consumers get more happiness for their money. Specifically, we suggest that consumers should
(1) buy more experiences and fewer material goods;
(2) use their money to benefit others rather than themselves;
(3) buy many small pleasures rather than fewer large ones;
(4) eschew extended warranties and other forms of overpriced insurance;
(5) delay consumption;
(6) consider how peripheral features of their purchases may affect their day-to-day lives;
(7) beware of comparison shopping; and
(8) pay close attention to the happiness of others.
3. Listen
A Book That Predicted the Future | Founder's Journal
https://foundersjournal.morningbrew.com/a-book-that-predicted-the-future/
Question of this week
Why do we get happy and sad?
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