2025Q2-DailyBookBlog #12

6/26/25
5:55PM-6:13PM: #18mins
Aim: 15 minutes

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Thursday #June

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[[Love of Conscious Reasoning]]
[[Love of Gaining Perspectives]]
[[Love of 2025 Quarter 2]]

[[Power of Collective Wisdom]]
[[Power of Great Minds]]
[[Power of Taking in Information, One Moment at a Time]]

I am overjoyed that I still have a couple of more days remaining for Quarter 2 of 2025. I’m not sure what else I will talk about, but I want to acknowledge and finish up my discussion of all the cool authors that I have read this quarter. I am genuinely super grateful, that I was able to experience the mindsets of all these amazing authors. More than their contents, I genuinely enjoyed the experiences, the joys, and the pains that these authors went through. I talked about the magic of books, and part of the magic, is actually being able to live in another person’s shoes, when we ourselves actually have not experienced much. And being able to explore with another person, who has dedicated so much time, writing the things that they are curious about, with so much dedication, and so much enthusiasm, that is something that you can never replicate, unless you listen, or read, word by word, what an individual author is saying. More than the content, it’s the essence of a curious mindset, that is the real magic of books. And I love that with all my heart.

And I also was able to finish the book, [[A Good Provider is One Who Leaves]], by [[Jason DeParle]], and I really was curious about this. And I have realized, I like books, because I want to know and learn about the topics that I am curious about. And since I read slowly, it doesn’t really matter what direction the content goes, I just am curious about the title, and the direction the author is going. And for me, the title says most of the things that I want to understand. And part of the reason I started this book, it’s because, I come from Bangladesh as well, and my own family also has experienced similar things like this, as my dad left us, when we were small, to provide for our family, when he came to the United States. So I was curious to learn, from an author who discusses this same issue, that my own family has gone through. And it was an interesting book, without a doubt.

I also was able the finish [[Ryan Holiday]]’s [[Lives of the Stoics]], and it was pretty interesting. One of the reasons I read these books, is because history is filled with so many dedicated smart minds, but it’s easy to forget them, if they are not properly documented. And I genuinely have a lot of respect for Ryan Holiday, for being able to write a book like this, exploring so many stoics of the past, people who know they can’t really change other people, but they can definitely change themselves, one day at a time. And I do respect the stoic philosophy, because at the end of the day, we can only do one thing at at time, and we decide how we take in and how we analyze information in front of us. And no matter how tough things get, at the end of the day, we decide how we should be feeling. And thousand different things can happen, but ultimately, with the right approach, we can train our minds to see the views that we want to see, rather then be congested with thoughts, that has no importance to us. And I really do love that with all my heart.

And it’s an interesting learning experience for me, being able to take in all this knowledge, from so many cool authors. And with that, my final book that I was able to finish this quarter, at least the ones that I have compiled, it’s called [[Uncommon Sense Teaching]], by [[Barbara Oakley]]. And I really like Barbara Oakley, and her approach to learning. And I am super grateful that I exposed myself to more of her work again. I recall, around about 10 years ago, when I first heard about her, and I took one of her online courses, regarding efficient ways of teaching ourselves. Oakley taught herself later in life, in the realm of mathematics, and engineering, and it’s incredible to think that people really can learn a lot later in life as well. As long as we have faith, and perseverance to teach ourselves. And neuroplasticity is super real, and we can learn so many cool things, even later in life, and I have full faith in that. As long as we keep utilizing our brain, and we keep giving it what it needs.

And one of the coolest things about all these authors, it’s the fact that they are curious beings, that just love to take in new information, and say it back to us, in a new format. A lot of the things are not new, but because they are saying and writing from their own perspective, it definitely has a lot of merit, and I genuinely love that with all my heart. And I will keep doing what I can, and I will keep exploring and going through this journey, and I will keep doing the best things in life, one day at a time. And it really is a journey, taking in all these authors, and I love hearing what they have to say. And in the format that I read, I am with each of these authors, for at least a month or so, at the pace that I read. And I read based on the strength that I have, and the desire that I get at each moment. And because of that, it really is genuinely so much fun. And I am grateful that I got to spend so much time, learning and taking the minds of these brilliant authors, this quarter, in 2025. And to those who read my blogs, I appreciate you guys. Although I haven’t interacted with anyone much, who is actually appreciating my writing, I hope to one day interact, and gain more perspectives as well. Because, the journey of writing is super fun, and I treasure it with all my heart. And I hope to keep learning, and keep implementing new strategies, so I myself can live a better life. And I hope to keep sharing, because I enjoy the books that I read, and I enjoy sharing really cool knowledge, that otherwise gets lost in all the information that is out there nowadays.