I’ve been fascinated by Stoicism for a while now and it really seems to resonate with me. Since I started reading about it, there were a few approaches I had naturally taken up and some that have been invaluable to my life. I see it as a practice rather than something you learn. You’ve got to constantly remind yourself of this way of thinking because it is so difficult to change our ways.

The book is about Frankl’s experience during the holocaust and what he went through at multiple concentration camps. It’s not written as a recalling of the facts, but rather an analysis of the psychological toll the experience had on the prisoners and what it took to make it out.

I decided to take the Four Tendencies Quiz to see how informative it was and whether it helped me gauge how I react to expectations and what changes I can make to better suit my tendency.

I needed a bit of a push to get these distractions under control, and that’s where Nir Eyal’s book Indistractable comes to the rescue. It’s simply written, well-structured and flows from one section to the next. It even has actionable steps after each chapter to get you to actually put what Eyal suggests into action.

There’s always something to complain about. We have made so much progress as a human race and yet we find so many things that aren’t working or are inconvenient to us. In The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, everything is put into perspective. He gives a thorough history lesson about the advancement of the human race and why it happened. What we’ve achieved as a race is amazing and so is the way we exponentially grow every year.

I have always felt a bit strange about education and it seems like most people do too. After being educated for 18 years you begin to question whether it was all useful or what the purpose of all of it is. Education is a necessity to put us in good stead for the rest of our lives but does education even do this?

I’ve always been interested in entrepreneurship and how successful people have made it to where they are today. Each person’s story has a unique twist with similar underlying lessons that can be taken from each story. Going over numerous success stories, I hope some of these ways of thinking and how to approach business are being etched in my brain.

Greg Mckeown wrote Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less to help us declutter our lives and focus on what’s important. It’s about figuring out what really is important to us and helps us understand that we do a lot of things to keep up appearances. Time is finite and only good things can come from focusing on what we really need to do rather than feel obliged to do.