Remember how it was to be me

Podcast version of Very Human, Very Divine (XI): Then the World Speaks to Us as found here: https://opusdei.org/en/article/very-human-very-divine-xi-then-the-world-speaks-to-us/

Spending my weekend the best way I know how: running 15km in the morning, napping my afternoon away, watching Ames moot court competition, and reading Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First.

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Hargrave’s Mind Hacking, the chapter that tackles positive mind loops, while I play Taylor Swift’s Lover album on repeat. Morning was for journal writing, Izzy Mollicone’s home videos, and hot choco with parents. Not even halfway through the day but I can feel today’s a fairytale.

Amused by Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan and its take on our blindness to randomness, particularly to large deviations. He says a Black Swan event has 3 characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, retrospective predictability. What is Covid19 pandemic but precisely this.

Reading Leo Trese’s Human But Holy as I journal beside a college friend at a cafe in Podium. Exceptionally happy today after a 6km run at sunrise and an email from another bank making a counteroffer to Amazon’s. Major decisions to be made this week.

Excerpt from Levitin’s The Organized Mind, which I finished months back. Apt at this season of my life because I’m treading a new career path. October should be interesting!

Reading Didion’s essay on a gloomy afternoon just before Fr. Patio’s doctrine class. Also noticing my tendency to use the lower register when I read something I feel strongly about.

Returning to the page I left off after RBG’s passing hit the news. Just at home, drinking hot choco, listening to Fast Car.

Reading Joan Didion at Starbucks while waiting for mom to finish her obgyne checkup. Companions are not allowed in the clinic so I mused myself with coffee and a book instead.