The Truman Present. Our household simply completed watching The Truman Present. I hadn’t seen it because it initially got here out 26 (26?!) years in the past, and it was pretty much as good as I remembered. It was enjoyable to see how into it our children have been, too. Every thing concerning the movie is almost pitch-perfect, from the casting to the humor (I’m nonetheless chuckling concerning the “It Might Occur To You” poster on the journey company). The movie was so prescient; it’s arduous to imagine it got here out earlier than actuality tv’s heyday, and its themes about surveillance, voyeurism, turning personal lives into leisure and revenue, and the methods viewers are complicit in remodeling people into disposable commodities have solely develop into extra salient within the social media age. Add onto that a number of different existential themes — I feel the entire thing will be learn as a riff on Plato’s allegory of the cave — and also you’ve obtained fairly a compelling flick.
Your therapist desires you to go outdoors. We’re huge advocates for spending time in nature. It’s nice not solely in your bodily well being, however your psychological well being as nicely, as a meta-analysis by the College of Utah just lately confirmed. It discovered that spending as little as 10 minutes in nature can profit adults with recognized psychological diseases. Water-based outside areas and actions like tenting and gardening have been particularly helpful. When you haven’t added the 20-5-3 Rule to your well being routine, all of the extra cause to start out now.
Battery Daddy. Final Christmas, my mother obtained our household what has turned out to be a surprisingly helpful present: The Battery Daddy. It’s a case that shops varied sizes of batteries. She even stocked it with batteries for us. It’s solved what had been a perennial downside: I couldn’t discover the batteries I wanted after I wanted them, and after I did discover them, they’d generally have dislodged from their authentic packaging and be hanging out within the junk drawer, main me to marvel in the event that they have been new or used. Now, all our batteries reside in a single well-organized go-to place. At any time when I see myself getting low in a single dimension of battery, I simply fill the Battery Daddy again up.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Important Wit and Knowledge of Charles T. Munger. I purchased this ebook over a decade in the past and have turned to it repeatedly through the years. Poor Charlie’s Almanack is a set of knowledge and insights from the late Charles T. Munger, a famend investor and Warren Buffett’s enterprise companion. The ebook compiles Munger’s speeches, lectures, and commentaries, emphasizing multidisciplinary considering and sensible knowledge for investing and life. His insights about psychological fashions have been notably helpful to me through the years.
Quote of the Week
We’re all the time complaining that our days are few, and appearing as if there can be no finish of them.
—Seneca
