Hello!
I hope your health is good and you are holding up.
Another week passed by and with so much happening in the world right now, news has become the worst form of media. So I’m not actively listening to the news for many days now. If something is important it still reaches, you. Instead, I focused on my first-course creation (Psss..Podcasting for Beginners) and also focused on consuming targeted content on skills I wanted to acquire (like a new language learning) or the content I really loved (yeah I binge-watched POI for few days).
Getting your mind away from focus is also as important as to focus. Between focus and not focus there is a subtle balance. If you walk that line then you cop better with your own physical and emotional states.
Coming to the book reading/listening progress, I listened to the Sherlock homes some more this past week, and some of Atomic Habits –
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – 60% done (Audible)
- Atomic Habits by James Clear – 50% done (Audible) – This audiobook is like a page-turner version for audio (I don’t know if there is a specific word for it for audiobooks, let me know in comments if there is).
That’s it for the personal updates.
Without further adieu, please enjoy this week’s Saturday-Pentacle.
Issue 191 // Week 27 // 2020
An article i found interesting —
How A Love Of Nature Makes Your Kid Smarter, More Creative, And Less Distracted – This article is basically a summary of Richard Louv’s 2005 book Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder.
If you are a parent you should definitely read this and if you are not, still it will make you feel nostalgic about your childhood.
A Good summary to read.
A podcast episode I loved —
Hugh Jackman – Tim Ferriss sits down with The Wolverine in this episode (pun intended) and talks about Best Decisions, Daily routines, reading first thing in the morning as a couple.
This was one of the good interviews I listened to in long time, which i really enjoyed!
Check it out!
A book I added in my reading/listening list —
The Overstory: A Novel – This book is recommended by Hugh Jackman in the podcast in the second point. He mentions that what you are done reading this book, it basically changes how you notice nature around you and look at things.
P.S.: This book turns out to be on Trees and it has won the Pulitzer price as well. (you can get your hopes high)
Music I’m loving —
Ocean by Native – Discovered this song last week on YouTube, what a gem of a song!
Beautiful lyrics immediately fell in love with it.
Few lines to get you curious –
“I’d rather see the ocean once in a lifetime
And miss it for the rest of my days
Than never feel the sand beneath my naked feet
And never hear the sound of breaking waves“
Quote which I found meaningful –
when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
That’s it for this week.
Until Next Saturday!
Thanks for reading.
Himanshu
About Author
I’m Himanshu Sachdeva, a technology professional working in Mumbai, India. I spend most of my spare time making Podcasts, YouTube videos and write on Lifestyle Design and sometimes stories.
Every Saturday, I send out an email newsletter called “Saturday Pentacle”, a list of the cool stuff I explored in the past week, including quotes, photos, books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on!
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Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 191 // Week 27 // 2020
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