49. Five Guarantees To Live A Miserable Life
A BIG WELCOME to all new subscribers, I am VERY happy to be in your inbox. If you’ve found your way over by some miracle but are not yet subscribed, here, let me help you with that:
Friends,
This new documentary looks incredible. I sobbed during the trailer so I cannot even begin to imagine what a mess I’ll be watching the entire thing.
(Keep an eye out for the close leopard encounter in South Africa at 1.00min - goosebumps!)
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Let me know one thing you’ll be doing differently post-pandemic:
Here’s five more things that you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. On Art
Watery British landscapes via Rachel Arif.
2. BREXIT
In love with this former post office transformed into five bedroom hotel — Algarve, Portugal.
3. Reading
Charlie Munger’s 5 Guarantees to Live a Miserable Life.
These 5 actions that will guarantee a miserable life:
Being a slave to addiction
Bottling up resentment
Being unreliable
Allowing life to keep you down
Repeating past mistakes
4. Thinking About
David Whyte’s interpretation of heartbreak.
HEARTBREAK is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control…
Heartbreak begins the moment we are asked to let go but cannot, in other words, it colors and inhabits and magnifies each and every day; heartbreak is not a visitation, but a path that human beings follow through even the most average life.
Heartbreak is an indication of our sincerity: in a love relationship, in a life’s work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self.
Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is [an] essence and emblem of care…
Heartbreak has its own way of inhabiting time and its own beautiful and trying patience in coming and going.
5. WFH
The app you never thought you needed until 2020 happened.
See you next Sunday.