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Around here, we discuss spiritual topics, book summaries, and other health-related content.
In many ways, I intend to offer you distinctions that can at least create some awareness around these three domains:
1. What we know, we know: Which is very small.
2. What we know, we don’t know: This is where most traditional learning and development happens. (e.g., school, organization assemblies, our environments, etc.)
3. What we don’t know, we don’t know: This is where we follow our curiosities, uncovering ideas, and making distinctions that can wake us up to things, we didn’t even know we didn’t know. As the great investor, Charlie Munger put it, “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.” The smarter we get, the more we realize how little we know.
You don’t know what you don’t know. You realize there are all these things out there. — Elon Musk
In 2019, I’d written a summary of The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews. It was the book that opened my eyes and gave me hope to dream again. I got so excited that I wanted to share these insights with other like-minded beings, and quickly realized how other readers seemed to enjoy it.
So, I continued with other books I’d read—across several categories: From spirituality, personal improvement, and other cognitive enhancement topics.
The fundamental purpose was to explore unmapped territories, make new connections, cross-discipline, and do my best to apply these ideas into practice. And so whenever I choose a new book to publish here on LE, it’s always something I know in my heart, that will help others improve themselves.
If what I’ve written also ends up helping you, that’s great. I see you, and I salute you for all the work you are doing.
As happiness expert, Gretchen Rubin puts it, “When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more from ourselves.”
I’ve had my share of crises and turbulence along my journey. But what led me here is that I got fed up with the way things were in my life: from addiction to the experience of homelessness, life has a funny way to come around. During those brutal moments, I had the public library to thank for stirring away from companies that were only adding logs to the detrimental fire that I alone ignited.
And so, In my gradual change of course, I was led to believe (given I was doing quite a bit of reading at the lib) that cultivating a foundational routine can alter my life for the better, so I begin with the following:
- Being mindful of the foods I eat.
- Practiced yoga and weight training— 4 to 6 days a week.
- Reading thought-provoking books.
- Practiced sitting meditation.
- Getting quality sleep.( Still a challenge. I find it annoying when I’m working on something, and my bedtime is slowly creeping up on me. I can’t stop myself! Please DM me with suggestions guys, thanks!
- Uncluttered. (This one has been long overdue. I can’t begin to tell you how many skeletons I found in my closet. But all jokes aside y’all, it was a real burden filling out my former belonging Kon-Marie style.
And sure enough, things start looking up.
I felt more calm.
Optimistic.
And having a sense of clarity I’d never felt before.
However, this new path and journey haven’t been smooth sailing. But it’s where my heart resides. I love learning skills that can brighten someone else’s day, and make their life easier.
Though I must say humbly that I’ve got plenty of inner work to do. Trauma healing. And help others in the process.
My journey through the fascinating realms of the human mind has fueled my curiosity, and love for the understanding of what makes us tick.
Join me as I explore the intersection of psychology, everyday life, and personal growth.
Here are a few random posts that resonate with my readers the most this week, that I think you’ll find useful:
- The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews(Book Summary)
- Sunset Serenity: How Watching the Sunset Can Lift Your Spirits (Blog post)
- The Solar Plexus Chakra (Article)
- The New Science of Everyday Wonder (Blog post)
- The Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins (In Book Summary)
- Martin Luther King Jr’s Thoughts on Non-Violence (Article)
