Dammit, cat woke me up. Now I gotta post myself back to sleep. 
It's freaking strange. Suddenly so many things where I was just spinning my wheels as hard and as fast as I could, I'm finally gaining traction. It's a weird feeling after so long. Patience paying off, it seems.
I've been reading books that are blowing my mind again. I keep finding this series of books that build on each other, it's really strange. I'll be in the middle of one book, say, and I'll go out and stumble upon another book which is all about some point I'm stuck on in that first book.
I can't remember which book started it all, I've been on sort of a "self-improvement/philosophy" book kick since last fall. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Wherever You Go There You Are, Crucial Conversations, The Art of Speed-Reading People, Stumbling on Happiness, Blink, After the Ecstasy the Laundry, Life is a Series of Presentations, Loving What Is...there's a dozen other books in there I can't think of off the top of my head. I'm in the middle of the last two at the moment. None of them are actually containing anything I didn't already know, it's just helping me synthesize things in a way that makes sense of shit that's been rolling around in my head since I was a teenager.
It's freaking strange. Suddenly so many things where I was just spinning my wheels as hard and as fast as I could, I'm finally gaining traction. It's a weird feeling after so long. Patience paying off, it seems.
I've been reading books that are blowing my mind again. I keep finding this series of books that build on each other, it's really strange. I'll be in the middle of one book, say, and I'll go out and stumble upon another book which is all about some point I'm stuck on in that first book.
I can't remember which book started it all, I've been on sort of a "self-improvement/philosophy" book kick since last fall. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Wherever You Go There You Are, Crucial Conversations, The Art of Speed-Reading People, Stumbling on Happiness, Blink, After the Ecstasy the Laundry, Life is a Series of Presentations, Loving What Is...there's a dozen other books in there I can't think of off the top of my head. I'm in the middle of the last two at the moment. None of them are actually containing anything I didn't already know, it's just helping me synthesize things in a way that makes sense of shit that's been rolling around in my head since I was a teenager.
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The book I'm reading right now is The Places in Between by Rory Stewart. He was in the British Army earlier in his life, and in 2003-04 he was serving as a diplomat in a remote area of Iraq, assigned to give out millions in aid money. The book I'm reading is about his time hiking across Afghanistan in 2002, just after the war had (well sort of) ended. it's funny, cuz he's said he thought the Afghan people were great and generous, but I'm about half way through it and they seem pretty hostile and narrow-minded to me so far! To be fair, he does get a lot of free boarding from strangers, from the "pillar of Islam" about charity, i.e. travellers are supposed to be put up for free by folks... and they do... but they still seem pretty mean-spirited in other ways (ex. treatment of dogs, which are considered low, dirty animals, not to be touched).
* Don't wear hoop earrings
* Don't go to Nebraska
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