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Tomas Espedal touches on this in his book Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
‘A view needs to be deserved.’
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
This is something I now notice whenever I read biographies of people who have done exceptional work: they lived narrow lives. They allowed themselves to care about less than others do
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
Peter Wessel Zapffe wrote – in his doctoral thesis with the classic name On the Tragic – on the importance of not taking short cuts, but instead using one’s time to struggle towards a goal. Receiving too much technical help
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
To admire a misanthrope.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
The intellectual allure of pessimism has been known for ages. John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.”
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Liberation and social justice have been bureaucratized.