Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

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The book starts with chapters on decluttering and de-owning – and the weight our possessions often have. There are also chapters on being prepared, the magic of collaboration and the importance of play in problem-solving. I am personally a very calm person, and rarely get stressed out, but I find books like this lovely to dip in and out of; they are soothing, almost.

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. All my life had been spent in the same dim halls, or walking the same stunted shore with its threadbare woods.I guess it is one of the books that make the most sense if you refer to it whenever you find yourself in a situation of needing some words of wisdom on something specific, as it just quite dense with information and sometimes too specific to gain from if there is no relevance. It was during the zenith of demographic, economic and technological growth in the period 1870-1970 that income inequality was significantly compressed. This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

While the ‘global baby bust’ has led to mainstream concerns about ageing populations, and delusional conspiracies like ‘the great replacement’, few people think that it would be efficacious or desirable to coax or coerce households into having more children for the sake of sustaining a rising population. Dorling is also sceptical regarding the claim that humanity is on the precipice of creating human-level artificial intelligence (AI). Người bạn nào tôi hỏi thăm cũng đang loay hoay trong con đường của mình, không biết mình là ai, muốn trở thành người như thế nào.Inspection copies are books under consideration as required or recommended reading for an upcoming course. According to the book “The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down” it is important that you forgive the people who hurt you in some way. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. Anh bảo chúng mình đang chịu áp lực từ identity-bản sắc mà mình thường đặt ra cho bản thân- identity là sinh viên trường F, trường D, nên phải thi MT, phải vào Big4, như thể đó là tất cả trong cuộc sống này.