Faye Yu
@faze
Faye Yu
“Aliveness isn’t about feeling better ; it’s about feeling better.”
342 / Navigating by aliveness
via Oliver Burkeman
This is a story about how people change and evolve and the way history changes and evolves… It’s the same thing with personal relationships, at some point that thing you want from the other person is not gonna be the thing they’re giving you, and this is kind of what this movie is about. They’re going to love each other for ever, but they’re probab... See more
“Stop caring about if others already viewed something to determine if it’s for you. Step away from what’s trending, not just to be contrarian, but to reconnect with the human act of discovery in a way that’s unbiased by product signals, or even just (different from) what you’ve always done... There’s a huge world out there when you decide to have interests that are your own, where you’re actively choosing what to engage with, not just to get a fake feeling of connection.”
An aesthetics that treats everything as beautiful ends up by viewing nothing as beautiful.
He outlined four levels of reading, each representing a more sophisticated way of understanding and interacting with books:
- Elementary —Basic comprehension. You’re just trying to understand what the words mean and follow along.
- Inspectional —A strategic skim. You get the gist by scanning the table of contents, reading a few key sections, and figur
A New Way to Read
Philosopher Mortimer Adler on ‘How to read a book’
Speaking with Total Film, Eisenberg said: “This is a story about how people change and evolve and the way history changes and evolves… It’s the same thing with personal relationships, at some point that thing you want from the other person is not gonna be the thing they’re giving you, and this is kind of what this movie is about. They’re going to l... See more
The key is to first be conscious, and second to make the hard decision to choose to live your life like it's your life , not someone else's. And to not feel bad about it.
