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Was just listening to it and it helped me see my own struggles of sustaining a livelihood solely based on a youtube channel. It really helped me in that regards.
Also, it made me realize how terrible Japanese people can get. They will leave you groaning in pain on the floor and just hop past you because they are "polite". I would much rather have a panic attack in India (In fact, I did and both times two random strangers helped me to a hospital. No one asked them to. Indians struggling with money have a profound sense of helping other people and get emotional and caring.).
Note: Unless specified, I listen to audiobook versions and not actually read.
Also added Amazon India links in case you want to check them out and my personal notes on a few.
Will surely listen
Next Non Fiction
Fat Chance
Undecided but had downloaded at one point
Yes it was a great listen again. It's been many years since I listented to this book earlier and I am glad I did it again. The whole talk about closed vs. open source and why piracy in music has failed again and again really was something I needed to listen again.
Much needed re-listen. I thought i had missed some stuff in the first listen but glad to know I didn't. This book justhelps you see how you are being manipulated by the snack and soda and other companies into consuming more shit and how horrible these processed foods really are.
Last year when I started on Fasting journey without controlling what foods I ate, I lost 17kgs (107kgs to 90kgs) but I pushed myself so much that it all rebounded to 100kgs.
It was then when I started to look for answers and Salt, Sugar, Fat & Pure White & Deadly, helped me understand and overcome my troubles with fasting by realizing that the horrible outside food and pre-pacakged stuff aren't just bad, they are deadly.
Earlier even 16 hour fast was a humungous effort, now 20 hours everyday is normal and I even forget and go into 22 hours everyday. So when I heard the author say in his video(attached) that this book was about the bad foods which only increase hunger I understood it was going to be just what my experience taught me.
Considering it was Dr. Jason Fung who got me started on my health and wellness journey with Obesity Code, I am going to assume this is going to be another best seller. And it's due to him I lost 7kgs but most importantly I don't spend hours in the washroom and don't worry about going to potty everytime I go out of home. My gut improved immediately (intermittent fasting and then increasing it). Also, sleeping better, and almost no outside food. All the food delivery apps are gone and I only eat home cooked food.
The biggest thing is psychological. Once you see yourself being able to control your hunger, you get this strange feeling of power which makes you more disciplined in other life. This is regardless of if you lose weight or not. However, start small and don't rush. Get proper information and then only start with fasting.
You can check my journey if you search my username.
P.S: Even though I love Dr. Jason Fung, I am glad he didn't narrate it. Brian Nishii did an amazing job with the Obesity Code book and I am glad to see him back.
Update: It was a good listen. Even though I might not have been interested in Autism, it did help me understand people a bit more better and a few strategies I can apply in my own life.
Neurodiversity is what I am intersted in, not autism itself. Let's see if I finish this or drop it.
Don't remember why I wanted to read it but it was something important. Yes it was about confirming what I have seen in the corporate culture and why I don't want to go back to it.
Update: Yup, just as I expected. This is a strong tool and also can be done by yourself with proper training. I have already downloaded a few more CBT books and will surely get into it at a later stage.
Also, it did confirm a lot of my thinking about these thoughts and appraches to life in general for example experiementing with your beliefs instead of accepting or denying them.
Many of our current social media and even the newer games which are being made addictive on purpose are using parts of CBT to get what they want. I just wanted a short introudction on it to determine later if I should dwelve deep inside it.
Read many of Lustig's book and was the reason we stopped eating sugar completely as a family. However, after a few bad days I drank a lot of tea and I felt my heart rate more pronounced and blood pressure rising. This time I assumed, just like earlier that it was due to caffeine and so I don't take tea or coffee anymore.
Recently however, I drank milk and sugar and bread and the same effect happened and I started to wonder, maybe it was not the caffeine but the sugar so I am going to back to another book by Dr. Lustig's whose youtube video is very popular.
Note this book is also about processed food which I am also very interested in.
More about my physical health journey here.
After watching the movie many times as a kid I wanted to hear for myself how much of the book was true as the visual media relies on high emotions instead of actual fact to work, I loved the movie but I wanted the truth, so I read it.
And as suspected, the lost radio silence in the final hours were manufactured. Many of the "drama" like Marilyn losing her ring in the bath and the whole fact about the third pilot being a rookie and what not were also manufactured.
Hey, I liked the movie, it was a movie not a documentry but I just wanted to know what it really was like and so I listened to the book and I don't regret it.
After watching the movie based on this book I was skeptical of all the dramatic and one man or one team army doing everything and I wanted to confirm my suspicions and I was correct, a lot of the stuff in the movie was manufactured for example:
Next Fiction
Monkey's Paw→ Short stories. Should finish quickly.
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown→ Short stories. Should finish quickly.
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion → If I feel like it.
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth → If I feel like it.
Bridge to Terabithia
Dopamine Nation
Jack Reacher Series because I already Started
Jack Ryan Series because I sort of liked the tv show's first season
The assassination of Juluis Ceaser→ Didn't really take in the story as a kid.
Undecided but had downloaded at one point
It's a great book but since I want to imagine everything in the book, I kept going back and repeating major sections of the book again and again and even at times taking help of the movies(which buthered the story so I stopped watching) to help visualize this.
J. R. R. Tolkein wants your full attention and hence this took this long. Hopefully, the other books won't take as long.
Note: To import others from Goodreads.
Yes, it's one of those books. And such books are very common from Ph.D's. They just collect a bunch of other people's works, use their words and do zero work by themselves. These authors will be replaced by AI very quickly as they should.
Just deriving numbers and graphs and showcasing very black and white test cases, it's a terrible book that I dropped after listening 10%.
There are fiction works that will help improve your mindset if that's what you're going for instead.
I don't remember why I have this book in my phone. There must be some reason.
Immediately I am put off by the book. The self-ass licking is too much in the very beginning. This feels like those corporate books that everyone pretends to have read in corporate but never actually does. If I don't find anything meaningful in the first hour of listening or if it pisses me off enough, I will get rid of it.
Within a few minutes this bitch has referenced 5 authors and their quotes already. I am 90% sure that I will quit this book.
Nothing against the book but involves a lot about UK Politics that I am not interested in.