I am so happy and grateful for the heater in my car this morning. It feels very cold!
Learning how to sit still and obey others is the necessary prerequisite to learning how to sit still and obey yourself.
thought on Chinese education at Slate Star Codex
To-do list
- Write about what you read today! ✅
- Typhoon for revision – can it be done? ½
- Find time to connect with someone. ½
- What gift could you give Kru Noon?
- Answer more challenges in your book. ✅
Had a lot of free time again today for which I’m very grateful. I wrote a few things down from what I was reading which made me realise that that is what I should be doing all the time.
An interesting Daily Stoic article talked about morning starts – movement, mindfulness, mastery. Things that I have been starting to do more and more anywhere. I feel like I have become a happier and more rounded person recently – still not challenged by a highly emotional event though.
A new challenge for this book is to recall and savour a time/event in my past and do this every night for five minutes or so. Tonight I will think about the time I helped Limited Express (has gone?) to tour Australia.
Tomorrow I was thinking about going somewhere else to buy coffee just to use my Curiosity Character Strength (which I did today by driving back home a different route) but Amy is taking the care so I’ll think about that for another day. I want to try many of the different examples of performing to Character Strengths just as an extra challenge.
Another important thing I learned today is that experiences make us happier than material things and I want to keep that in mind.
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