💭 # 20 - Scribble Monsters / On Friendships / Suta Kavari on How to Listen Deeply and Build Friendships
Hi friends, welcome to the latest edition of One Percent Wiser, a compendium of resources to help you live better.
Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you… You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. ~ John Gardner
🎭 I Thought Impro Was Bullsh*t
James Stuber | Optimal Thinking
Can you be too rational? To put it another way, can nonsense and irrationality help you become more creative and aware? As someone who usually thinks of rationality as extremely valuable, in a society that values rationality highly, here's a counterpoint that will make you think differently about being silly.
👯♀️ On Friendships
Ali Montag | Living Intentionally
Many people think that being a digital nomad would be amazing. Jetting from place to place and working from a laptop. I used to live that life, and I was miserable. Saying it out loud made me sound absurdly ungrateful, as it was a huge privilege, but articles like this make me understand more what was lacking. Now, I still love to explore new places, but I like to have a home base to come back to. Key quote: "Freedom is cheap. What we don’t acknowledge is the high cost of a life without commitment. Without commitment—to a place, to a family, to a group of friends"
🎙 Suta Kavari on how to listen deeply and build friendships across political lines, and why Germany's Namibia genocide apology is not enough
Jamie Green | Finding Meaning
In the latest episode of the One Percent Wiser podcast, I speak with my friend Suta Kavari (@sutaonce) about how to have meaningful friendships across political lines, listening deeply, and the latest political issues in Britain and Namibia. Suta has a wonderful way with words and a radio voice that you could listen to all day. Start with this conversation.
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