Monthly Blog #2
6:31PM-6:47PM: #16mins
Home-Branford
Aim: 14 minutes
5/1/25
May
900words
[[Power of Legendary Audiobooks]]
[[Power of Categorization]]
[[Love of Progressing]]
[[Love of Wisdom]]
[[Highlights- Step2- Aim Towards Wisdom- Top Three]]
[[Aim Towards Understanding]]
[[Aim Towards Sincerity]]
[[Aim Towards Action]]
[[Highlights- Step3- Power Moments- Top Three]]
[[Power of Knowledge]]
[[Power of Perspective]]
[[Power of Insights]]
[[Highlights- ধাপ1- Gratitude Moments- Top Three]]
[[Gratitude Towards Pamin]]
[[Gratitude Towards Logan Family]]
[[Gratitude Towards Ammu and Abbu]]
[[Site Blog]]
I genuinely love what I have learned in the month of April, and I am glad to be continuing my journey. This is genuinely going to be a heartfelt blog, and I have no idea what direction that I’m going to go, but I want to just reflect on all the amazing books I’ve read. And the month of April, sleep took a prominent perspective for me. And reading [[Matthew Walker]] and [[Shawn Stevenson]]’s books really helped me gain some insight. And of course, [[Arianna Huffington]] also wrote her book as well. And the books that I am talking about are [[Why We Sleep]], [[Sleep Smarter]], and [[The Sleep Revolution]], and besides that, it was just genuinely incredible to get so much insight, and for me this is enough, just being able to consciously recall these amazing authors’ name.
And besides that, I also have learned a lot about just life. And memory, [[Remember It]], by [[Nelson Dellis]], and just all these incredible things, that are possible, once you have enough focus. I genuinely think that is such an incredible phenomenon, and I Love it with all my heart. And I genuinely believe, once I memorize some of these techniques, such as the PAO system, which includes a system of recalling through visualization, a Person, an Action, and an Object, and being able to embed these in a number system. And I think I will have a better memory, as a result, if I myself am able to implement the system. Because we have amazing capacity for storing knowledge, but we genuinely have very shitty retrieval systems, and it’s getting worse, because we think we don’t have to invest time, actually picturing and memorizing, and that’s also really a shame.
But for me, after reading books like this, and also I really want to re-read [[Joshua Foer]]’s [[Moonwalking with Einstein]], because that was another great memory book, but I read it like 10 years ago. And I really don’t mind, because, every time that I think about these books, I gain new insights, because these magnificent human beings, have spread such amazing knowledge, it genuinely is so incredible. And the reality of life nowadays, we do have incredible amount of information. So how do we focus on the most important things that we care about, I think that is super important to understand. And I will do what I can, and just live a life, that I genuinely love.
And I am happy, being able to talk about all this. And of course, I am reading even more books, but at a slow rate, and when the mood calls for ti. And so I will start listing them, as well, as I can remember. Because [[Mel Robbins]]’s [[The Let Them Theory]], that’s also a pretty cool book. And when I overthink, especially when I post on my website, and actually reference on Facebook and Linkedin, I genuinely do overthink, and that’s really interesting. But I have realized, most people won’t really read what I write, because most people, I believe, don’t have the patience to care, especially in our world, there’s so many people. And I don’t know who I will reach, with my wisdom, and it’s not anything grand, but I am not afraid of what I learn nowadays, and it gives me great solace, that I can write this much. It’s pretty profound, because it has taken be 3.5 years to get to this point. I have written around 1000 night blogs, and I have written around 700 morning blogs, all for myself. And of course there are 100s of afternoon blogs, dozens of midnight blogs and then there are so many other little blogs, here and there, that I just thought was interesting to write about.
Let’s say when I went to Bangladesh, and I went twice, in the last 3 years. And when I was in the plane, I wrote so much, and I had so much anxiety, and so many little thoughts. It was genuinely incredible how much I wrote during those moments. And nowadays, I just have so much knowledge, and it’s not even that much, but I can consciously recall what I care about. And being able to breath, from authors like [[James Nestor]], and [[Wim Hof]], their wisdom really has rubbed off on me. And even reading [[Own the Day, Own Your Life]], by some random author ([[Aubrey Marcus]]), and for me, nowadays, when I can recall their names, it feels incredible, because this is also a link system for me, and it helps me understand that they were incredible articulate, in a topic they loved discussing about.
And it’s not just what their saying that is incredible, it’s just being able to organize all that information, with specific authors, within my own memory, that I can actually recall, for me, that is genuinely such an amazing phenomenon. Because we do have great categorizing abilities, that help us retrieve information super easily. And it’s incredible, and even reading [[Douglas Hofstadter]]’s [[Surfaces and Essences]], that was also super incredible. And I even read [[The Ancestor’s Tale]], by another crazy famous author ([[Richard Dawkins]]), and that was incredibly hard to digest. There are so many books I’ve read, in the past few years, and being able to write, and actually listening to them, when I actually care about them, it is genuinely such an incredible phenomenon. For me, nowadays reading these books, it’s like watching anime again, but in a different mediums. And I can focus, and also do other things, because audiobooks have that kind of power, and that is genuinely super incredible to me.