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

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The book serves as a treasure trove of bite-sized wisdom offering readers an engaging and easily digestible guide to navigating life’s ups and downs. This book is thought-provoking, evergreen, needed, fun, and most of all: might just make us better people. Even reading only a few pages at a time will surely give you some new insights and inspiration to live a meaningful life.

Why not pick up the latest guidebook on your city or town, and spend a weekend exploring it through the eyes of the tourist? The advice ranged from the optimal size of a back patio to be utilized, to overarching life purpose advice. This hardback book is surprisingly small in size, and well laid out but with rough paper and the occasional ink smear. As a result, learning how to relate well with others can make your path to a better life much smoother. Gretchen Rubin, via Twitter"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 start with the counterintuitive, one of the best things you can do for your children is to prioritize your relationship with your partner.

Dig deeper and explore overlooked nuances, unexpected intersections, and unconventional conversations within this narrow field. Yet as cliche as this sounds, there's a new original gem for every expected recycled quote - and that's what makes it interesting enough to read.Kevin’s advice is so practical and so easy to remember, that I find myself incorporating the wisdom of his book into my daily life -and it works! He is the founder of the legendary WIRED magazine, worked with Stewart Brand on Whole earth catalog and so on. Conversely, when meeting someone for a second or third time, be gracious and introduce yourself to them again. The path to a better life won’t always be easy, but you can dodge some of the common pitfalls by absorbing a few bits of wisdom along the way.

Highly recommend giving this a read and then beginning on your own list of collected advice for the next generation.Kevin has distilled complex and important ideas into simple, actionable advice: a compelling antidote to thinkism. Rule of 3 in conversation: To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. 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. If you don’t find at least seventeen golden nuggets of advice from Kevin Kelly’s list, you’re not awake.