Excellent Advice For Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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Dig deeper and explore overlooked nuances, unexpected intersections, and unconventional conversations within this narrow field. He has wisdom for career, relationships, parenting, and finances, and gives guidance for practical matters ranging from travel to troubleshooting.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While today’s world frequently feels chaotic and confusing, there are simple truths that can help cut through the clutter and complexity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Excellent Advice for Living made me want to stop every few pages and find someone to discuss the things I had just read. Kevin’s writing style is not great but the curiosity and the breadth of interests are always amazing.Kevin Kelly’s new book, Excellent Advice for Living, is a must-read for anyone seeking guidance on how to live a fulfilling life. The trick to making wise decisions is to evaluate your choices as if you were looking back 25 years from today. And one hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom. A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

One hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom. To avoid the annoyance of leaving things behind while on the road, keep your possessions visible and grouped together where possible.So much so that simply showing up on bad days is worth far more than superhuman efforts on rare good days. Even reading only a few pages at a time will surely give you some new insights and inspiration to live a meaningful life. On those rare occasions your child comes to you wondering what they should do, put your own preferences on hold and first ask what they want. I read this book regularly and the advice is short, simple, and easy to remember, which means it comes up in my day to day all the time and helps give me a good framework for making better choices.

He is the founder of the legendary WIRED magazine, worked with Stewart Brand on Whole earth catalog and so on. Of all the books on happiness, purpose, and wisdom that I have read (and authors I’ve hosted on my podcast) this is by far the best distillation of advice for living out there, and the wisdom comes in bite-size quotes for daily consumption, for we have to remind ourselves every day how to live. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control. Hovering between the practical and the poetic, his learnings are sometimes seemingly obvious reminders of what we know but habitually forget, sometimes pleasingly contrarian, always unselfconsciously sincere.Often, that wisdom comes so simply worded as to appear trite — but it is the simplicity of a children’s book, or of a Zen parable: unvarnished elemental truth about what it means to be alive, hard-won and generously offered. Essentially 'chicken soup for the soul' in feeling, meets inspiration quote posted on social, it's a book that makes you want to highlight every little saying. Kevin Kelly tells you right away he isn't reinventing the wheel and much, if not all, of this advice came to him from other sources, but just like him, it's on us to put it into practice and meditate on it. Reading it reminded me of reading Proverbs: the more you sit with each writing, the more you enjoy their depth. With parables and quotes that focus on what matters most, this book is like a compass that points readers in the right direction.