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#62 Spinning in an office chair for absolutely no reason

January 27, 2016December 13, 2015 Neil Pasricha

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Shoutout to a man I love but have never met.

I was talking to my friend Dede last week when she mentioned she was on her way to Sarasota to have lunch with her dad.

"Your dad?"

"Yeah, my dad. He's 96."

"96?!"

"Yeah. I'm meeting him before his radio show."

"His radio

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We're having municipal elections in Ontario right now.

Just drove by my favourite candidate so far...

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“You can’t love anyone until you love yourself.”

Vivek Shraya (@vivekshraya) found the opposite to be true.

“It’s by loving other brown people, loving other queer people that I’ve learned to love myself.”

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Quit more to read more.

Stop reading any book you aren’t enjoying and swap it for something that gets you going. Your reading rate will skyrocket …

And, when it slows?

Quit more to read more again.

No book shame, no book guilt, and never any pressure to finish. Just keep

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