What are you currently reading? And bonus points if you can somehow find a connection to simple living, even if it is not about simple living.
I’ll start: I’m currently reading The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton and… well it is grim but I love the simplicity of the short stories. I can pick the book, read a page or two inbetween chores while relaxing, and put the book back down.
(Sorry mod if this does not fit the community, I’ll delete if it doesn’t!)
Essentialism.
I started it once before and didn’t really like it and gave up, but I had been on a minimalism/simple living reading marathon for a while at that point and was a bit burnt out and needed some fiction. I’ve waited 6 weeks for a copy to become available again at my library again so am starting again now.
Is this Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown? Hope you can enjoy the book now! I’ve been really into minimalism and simple living for couple of years now as well, but was too afraid to pick up books about those things due to burning out in a similar way as you when I was really into productivity.
Reading fiction inbetween is really good advice. And hey since you are into minimalism, if you haven’t found !minimalism@lemmy.world on lemmy yet, there it is :)
It is Greg McKeown’s book, and yes my burn out was a mix of minimalism, productivity, no surf books (Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Stolen Focus, Year of Less. The Shallows, The Future is Analog, Getting Things Done). Tried some H.P. Lovecraft in between who is an author I’ve not tried before. Not entirely sure I’m that into his work but it provided something different for a while and provides some background to a few board games I’ve played with friends.
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