#73: someday is today
👋 Welcome to the 73rd issue of Out of Curiosity, a weekly newsletter promoting ideas to help get 1% better everyday.
My name is Reza, and every week, I go through nearly 100 pieces of content (from books and podcasts to newsletters and tweets), and bring you the best in this newsletter.
In this issue:
📚 The Richest Man in Babylon
🧘♂️ Handling strong emotions
👩💻 A better argument for working less
🎙️ Someday is today
📚 The Richest Man in Babylon
This book is filled with practical financial advice through engaging stories set in ancient Babylon. It teaches fundamental principles of wealth creation and management that are still relevant in today's world.Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, and its children’s children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.
Many things come to make a man’s life rich with gainful experiences. Such things as following, a man must do if he shall respect himself: He must pay his debts with all promptness within his power, not purchasing that for which he is unable to pay.
Wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way. Wealth that stayeth to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner, comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
→ Goodreads | 194 pages
🧘♂️ Handling strong emotions
When it comes to living a long and happy life, the quality of your relationships matters most. But how to keep those relationships strong?
Most emotionally intelligent people don't ignore their emotions or allow them to unthinkingly drive their actions. Instead, they employ the Wiser model to process their feelings and actively choose a wiser course of action:
Watch: Take a pause, name it, and understand what triggered it.
Interpret: Are there other factors contributing to your emotional response?
Select: Slow things down where you can, zoom in, and move from a fully automatic response to a more considered and purposeful response.
Engage: Considered action is better than letting your feelings carry you along.
Reflect: Important step to improve our response next time.
→ Inc | 15-min read
👩💻 A better argument for working less
We use elevator rides and checkout lines as opportunities to tap out one more email or respond to one more Jira ticket. Silicon Valley worships at the altar of productivity and calls it “purpose.” We praise those who pursue side grinds and passive income strategies—as if the 8 to 10 hours we give to our employers each day aren’t enough.
Working less makes us better friends and neighbors. It allows us the space to exercise regularly and to read for pleasure, and to create art that no one has to see.
Finding meaning outside of work requires active forms of leisure. It requires us to do things. And in the words of Esther Perel, too many of us bring the best of ourselves to work and bring the leftovers home.
→ Every | 6-min read
Ursula K Guin’s daily routine 👇
🎙️ Someday is today
Ali Abdaal chats with Matthew Dicks, the creative mastermind behind Storyworthy: a popular manual on the art of storytelling, empowering individuals to craft more engaging and memorable narratives.And that is a debilitating belief that a lot of people have where they can't move through life without constantly worrying about what happened five minutes ago. And so I work really hard with people to sort of encompass and embrace the idea that no one pays as much attention to you as you think they do. And when you release that worry and that concern, you can become enormously happy and more productive because suddenly all the things that you're doing to sort of maintain an image that is utterly unnecessary. Once all those things fall away, you suddenly find yourself free, both in terms of the bandwidth you have to be thinking about the things you want to do.
I am obsessive about minutes and I am obsessive about the idea that people waste their minutes on things that no one notices, nobody cares, and don't lead them in the right direction.
… You know what, if I were you, I would just pick something and start moving in that direction because it's a lot easier to change direction when you're moving than when you're static.
→ Deep Dive | 103 minutes
✨ One last thing…
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.
--Carl Jung👋 Until next week,
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Absolutely fantastic!
really needed it.
Especially the wiser model😁