Читать книгу Things No One Else Can Teach Us - Humble the Poet - Страница 4

Оглавление

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Introduction

FORTUNATELY/UNFORTUNATELY, NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

Open

1. Everything Is Temporary, so Appreciate Those You Have While You Have Them

2. Patience Is Making Time Your BFF

3. You Are Going to Die, and Remembering That Can Be a Good Thing

4. Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened

KNOWING YOURSELF MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Open

5. We Can Survive a Lot

6. Service to Others Is Also a Great Service to Ourselves (Sewa)

7. When We Know Our Why, Our How Gets Easier

8. We Gotta Pay Tuition for Life Lessons

DON’T FOCUS ON THE POT OF GOLD, ENJOY THE RAINBOW

Open

9. Focus on the Fun, and Everything Else Will Fall into Place (and If It Doesn’t, at Least You’re Having Fun)

10. The Pot of Gold Rarely Makes the Journey Worth It

11. Give Yourself Permission to Dance on Different Rainbows

12. We All Have Different Rainbows

13. Often, There Is No End to the Rainbow

ZOOM OUT

Open

14. Try to Relate to the Bad Guys in Your Story

15. Chapters End, but Our Story as a Whole Keeps Evolving

16. Judge Less, Understand More

17. You Aren’t That Special, Embrace It

18. We Don’t Own a Crystal Ball, so Stop Assuming the Future

19. Are You Being Pushed by Fear, or Pulled by Love?

ZOOM IN

Open

20. Life Isn’t Black and White, There’s Plenty of Gray in Between

21. Don’t Be So Hyperbolic (That’s a Big Word for Dramatic)

22. Detach Your Self-Worth from Your Choices

LIMIT YOUR SELF-PITY

Open

23. Caution: Social Media Is a Playground for Self-Pity

24. Self-Pity Is Easy and Convenient like Fast Food (and Just as Unhealthy)

25. We Don’t Scream “Why Me?!” During the Good Times, so Don’t Scream It During the Bad

26. Turn Rejection into Invitation

27. Self-Pity Feeds Our Insecurities (and That Leaves Us Bitter and Angry)

28. Getting Offended Is a Form of Self-Pity

THERE’S NO WIN OR LOSE, THERE’S ONLY WIN OR LEARN

Open

29. Stop Calling Them Failures, Start Calling Them Teachers

30. Not Everyone We Lose Is a Loss

31. We Can Lose More Trying to Win

32. Freedom Is Having Nothing to Lose

33. There Are No Time Machines, so Fix It Next Time

Outro

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Also by Humble the Poet

About the Publisher

Подняться наверх