1024 Finished reading a book and had a chill day
💺 Because the damn JR was late again, I didn’t get a seat during my morning commute. I feel a little tired.
🖥️ 09:45 Did exercises on Codecademy
😫 13:45 Two meetings in one day — really?
🗯️ Chatted with GPT to make my marathon plan clearer
🥵 It’s so damn hot
🖱️ 14:00 Finished making the Powerpoint
📖 15:00 Started reading Four Thousand Weeks Afterword
Notes:
Embracing your limits means giving up hope that with the right techniques, and a bit more effort, you’d be able to meet other people’s limitless demands, realise your every ambition, excel in every role, or give every good cause or humanitarian crisis the attention it seems like it deserves. It means giving up hope of ever feeling totally in control, or certain that acutely painful experiences aren’t coming your way. And it means giving up, as far as possible, the master hope that lurks beneath all this, the hope that somehow this isn’t really it – that this is just a dress rehearsal, and that one day you’ll feel truly confident that you have what it takes.
Ten Tools for Embracing Your Finitude
- Adopt a ‘fixed volume’ approach to productivity. – keep two to-do lists, one ‘open’ and one ‘closed’
- Serialise, serialise, serialise. – focus on one big project at a time
- Decide in advance what to fail at. – strategic underachievement
- Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just on what’s left to complete. – keep a ‘done list’
- Consolidate your caring.
- Embrace boring and single-purpose technology. – choose devices with only one purpose
- Seek out novelty in the mundane. – pay more attention to every moment, however mundane
- Be a ‘researcher’ in relationships. – deliberately adopting an attitude of curiosity
Not knowing what’s coming next – which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future – presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.- Cultivate instantaneous generosity. – act on the impulse right away
- Practise doing nothing.
📘 15:24 Finished reading Four Thousand Weeks
🏃♀️ I think someday I’ll run an ultra-marathon.
Wish list
📖 17:00 Started reading the Chinese translation of The Garden of Forking Paths using Reader
🪄 Good luck to me—may I complete the Yokohama Marathon safely and happily.