Book Club: Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish - Why Memento Mori Is The Wake-Up Call You Need

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer. This week we're reading part 5 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. The final part of our book club. And it gets deep. It starts with Marcus Aurelius and goes into the heart of what matters. Because if you've followed parts 1-4 of this book club, we have a wake up call for you. None of the decisions and choices you make matter one bit if you don't know what you really want, if you are not aware of what's really important in life. Here's some of the things we speak about this week: - What is Phronesis - the wisdom of knowing how to order your life to achieve the best results. - The wisdom of age - Memento Mori - what it is and a thought experiment on how to use it. - Comparison is the thief of joy. - What you can learn from Ebenezer scrooge - Possessions And much more... ====================================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:00 Turn Hindsight Into Foresight 3:00 What Are Good Decisions? 5:58 How To Order Your Life For Best Results? 8:34 The Wisdom Of Old Age 10:48 Have Dinner & Jazz Fun 14:30 What I Liked About Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish 16:26 The New Happy 19:38 Memento Mori 22:13 Seneca And Physical Health 24:29 Regret As A Lack Of Imagination Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing.

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