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June 19, 2024May 27, 2024 Neil Pasricha

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
17 Feb

he problem isn’t that we have negative thoughts in our brain. 

The problem is that we think we shouldn’t have negative thoughts.

It’s okay.

We all have them. 

Keep moving.

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
16 Feb

Incredible travel tips from Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly):

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14 Feb

Does popularity predict longevity?

Not necessarily!

When I spoke with Lindyman @paulskallas on 3 Books, he pointed out that the "topic of the day" rarely carries forward into the future. What does? Listen to the full chapter to learn how to apply the Lindy heuristic to topics…

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13 Feb

A few of my favorite pages from 'How To Do Nothing' by Jenny Odell

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Ginny Yurich (​@1000hoursoutside​) drove 5 hou Ginny Yurich (​@1000hoursoutside​) drove 5 hours up the road from Michigan to Toronto to hang out with Leslie and me. We went for a walk outside (of course!) and recorded this podcast—our second outdoors podcast in a row after ​Nickisha The Dog Walker​! Why outside? I'm glad you asked! Ginny Yurich (@1000hoursoutside) is the homeschooling mother of 5 (!) who has spirited a movement called ​1000 Hours Outside​. I like 1000 as you know! ​1000 Awesome Things​ was my first blog, ​1000 formative books​ is ... this entire podcast. So when 3 Bookers globally kept telling me to interview Ginny I looked her up and saw she was a fan of 1000 and I knew ... this was going to be good. And it was even better than I thought! Grab some headphones! Put on some shoes! Let's mutually peel ourselves off screens and scrolling and let's step into the sun, into the wind, into the air and talk about parenting pressures, raising a wild child, ​old dangerous playground equipment​, the benefits of spinning, why osteoporosis is a childhood disease, raising readers, and, of course, Ginny's 3 most formative books. Ginny is the bestselling author of '​1000 Hours Outside​,' '​Until The Streetlights Come On​,' and (out next week!) her brand-new book '​Homeschooling​' which has the catchy subtitle "You're doing it right just by doing it." I found her formative books truly fascinating and her work is heavily research-based which builds upon her Master's in Education and an almost endless reservoir of knowledge about raising enduringly popular and healthy children in today's cognitively-exhausting world.... I absolutely love Ginny Yurich! Open the door, hear the birds, and let's flip the page into Chapter 148 now... Listen to the full episode in my bio @neilpasricha or on YouTube, 3books.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
“Because the two primary obstacles to gratefulne “Because the two primary obstacles to gratefulness are forgetfulness and a lack of mindful awareness, visual reminders can serve as cues to trigger thoughts of gratitude.” ― Robert Emmons
Do you think this is true? Do you think this is true?
Have you heard of a book called ‘The Subtle Art Have you heard of a book called ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck’ by @markmanson? I’m guessing you have since it’s sold, uh, 16 million copies since it came out in 2016. There hadn’t been a non-fiction book that big and disruptive in a long, long time…  Mark’s meteoric success is the product of a giant mind which has mastered the art of taking the biggest, densest books on the planet and then simmering them down into simple, profanity-laced models and stories that hit you like a ton of bricks. The world is so loud! So busy. So full. Everything is screaming at us to buy this, buy that, do this, do that. You know what we need in this wild world? Guides! Clear voices. People who give us simple and practical advice that we can follow and put into place… Mark Manson is one of those guides for me and millions of others. I follow his popular YouTube channel and read his simple and punchy tweets. In this classic 3 Books chapter, in Mark’s cramped hotel room at The Drake Hotel in Toronto, we go deep on building trust in an era of clutter, why Mark poo-poos self-help gurus, what is the root problem with the ‘advertising model’, why Mark played video games for months after the success of his book, what his writing routines and principles are, and, of course, his 3 most formative books… Let’s flip the page back to Chapter 28 now... Listen to the full chapter in my bio @neilpasricha or on YouTube, 3books.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
How much do you read? For most of my adult life I How much do you read? For most of my adult life I read maybe five books a year—if I was lucky. Couple on vacation and a few slow burners on the bedside table for months. And then a few years ago I surprised myself by reading 50 books. The year after that it was maybe 75. Now I’m at that level consistently. I’ve never felt more creatively alive. I feel more interesting. I feel like a better husband, a better father, a better son. And my work output has shot up. I feel like jacking my reading rate has been the lead domino that’s tipped over a slew of others. I’m disappointed I didn’t do it sooner. Why did I wait 20 years? Well, our world today is designed for shallow skimming rather than deep diving, so it took me some time to identify the specific changes that skyrocketed my reading rate. None of them had to do with how fast I read. But many of them had to do with ditching the TV, cancelling magazine subscriptions, installing a bookshelf at my front door, deleting social media apps off my phone, and (maybe most importantly) publishing a monthly book club newsletter every single month since November 2016. The books pictured here are the ones I read this month and the ones I'll be sending out my monthly book club email this weekend. Over 100,000 people read my book club each month. All my emails are 100% ad, sponsor, and algorithm free, they come directly from my inbox, and I read (and try to reply) to every email I get. If you'd like a handful of book reviews and recommendations each month, you can sign up at the link in my bio @neilpasricha. If you want to hang out off toxic social media, without endless advertising and algorithmic interference, sign up and we'll talk every month about books.
“How can I be successful?” It’s a question “How can I be successful?” It’s a question many of us ask ourselves and have trouble answering. Because what is success, anyway? Is it writing a book and selling a million copies? Is it winning awards and gaining respect from your peers? Or is it just feeling satisfied with your work? We’re often told that success is in the eye of the beholder—that we need to define it for ourselves, on terms that are meaningful to us. I believe that’s true but that advice doesn’t tell us how to do it. Try as we might, many of our achievements wind up fitting a mold that suits somebody else—employers, parents, societal expectations—at least as much as, if not more than, it suits us personally. And we still find ourselves left unsatisfied or unhappy, wishing we had something more or something else, no matter how ‘successful’ we’ve been. I think one of the reasons why is because there roughly are three types of success. I call them the 3 S’s: 1. Sales success: getting people to buy something you’ve created 2. Social success: you’re widely recognized among your peers and people you respect 3. Self success: You’re proud and satisfied with your work There is a catch, though.  I think it’s impossible to experience all three successes at once. So you have to choose. Spend time thinking about which one you want and *then go*.
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