I just got this book and have not started it. It is big and looks forbidding - with lots of graphics about indeterminacy. To be honest I might skip parts. But I have not read it yet.

Overall the book reminds me of one quote: Huxley said that worse than knowing we could learn from history(or that our cycles repeat) worse is knowing we will not learn from our history.

9:00 Awesome review thus far. I would push back on the eternal return of Fritz. It was a thought experiment - not an actual recurrence. The idea that we would live our lives over again and again was meant to teach to accept the good and bad as ordered, rather than pine away for some imagined fantasy or destiny.

🤩🤩Wow Bjorn wow you don't know how much u r opening my mind with your book suggestions

Hi, I've watched most of your videos. I'm so much impressed by the quality of your contents. I think, you deserve more engagements.

Valuable video

'You can heal your life' by Louise Hay...... (Must read)

Wow I SEE both SIDES of the COIN 📖🪙 👀

Good explanation.

It is definitely worth reading...as soon as i'm finished with it, i will read it again.

I removed all malcolm gladwell books after his debate with matt taibbi and douglas murray

You have saved me much thought, that I put towards more reading. Thank you for collating the new releases. You have me considering reading Gladwell again, I was turned off completely. Also the book about thriving in dark times(Canadian here and also got a lamp, this year, to help with the long winter.) sounds like my cup of tea as well. Wow Keri is so right - I used to love the winter when I was a kid - and I lived way up north. It was the skiing and my dogs, and sledding and... It is about love what you have, especially when you do not have what you want.

I was hoping you’d name the program and process for creating a timeline. Eg. What program do you use?

U saind no takeaways

I am in the middle of this as we speak. I would recommend Rick Rubin and Austin Kleon even more so? * I turned 'pro' a couple years ago. Got rid of all social media, beside this place, and worked hard to get to reading one book a day, to inform my own journey, and a book some day?

Thanks for the review

Nice ! I guess they did not for see artificial intelligence?

Secular, no afterlife, so live the most now. (Our feeling of time would change if there was knowledge of afterlife) Hard work (to prove you are the chosen) - Calvanism (interesting, you work hard, survive, thrive and therefore you are seen to be chosen, good) Procrastinate because work is beyond talents potentially (yes me but also interests) Opportunity cost to everything, not just finance

"Easy, like time, is relative." I see what you did there.

Ive read them and they offer zilch! Pseudo science, in spades!

Hello Bjorn. I have read a few psychology books and took classes. I found they have helped in certain areas. Also, I have been thinking, well in my opinion, a lot of people when they get older seem to not want to rekindle old relationships much. (myself included). Probably, because it’s a lot of emotional effort to invest and takes a lot of mental energy to detach. For example, I had a friend (he was a Swede). I learned about the culture and it takes longer to warm up which I am okay with. Almost half my heritage is East and West Slavic. And I am an introvert mostly so, I was like, he gets to me when he can. But it’s been almost two decades and I felt I gave more of myself than I was getting of him. Therefore, last week, I told him it was best I didn’t stay in contact with him. I wasn’t rude and wished him well. The initial act of letting my attachment go was the hardest part but feel I can slowly move forward. I was upset. I don’t know many Swedes. However, than, I thought, it’s ridiculous. Learning about the culture and the language can make one ‘Swedish’ in a sense. Honorary Swede lol. But one person doesn’t define a whole culture. I am still going to learn Swedish regardless. I had an interest in Swedish long before I knew him.

3:20 Great recommendation Mate _ I would recommend his In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts(apply the insights to many aspects of addictive personalities) book even more so. I like his Myth of Normal last year but his take on psychedelics is plain wrong. Wow - we read almost the same books.. Funny I just downloaded the 'In the Shallows' ;)

I wish I had the patience to share the books as you do. It is desperately important for us to read, and learn to think critically. We will not get there reading pop fiction and mindless self-help. We have evolved to needing deeper insights, and that requires us to engage deeply with the material, and the material must be up to the depth.

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this book is a lie. it's just another theosophy book teaching astral projection and the path of getting your mind possessed by a form of thought. in fact the holly fathers of Christianity thought for 2000 years that the devil works most of the time as a form of thought invading your mind with false information, fears and finally mental illness. it's funny how they actually state religion is bad and a form of fear, but their method is better "do it thy will" and you will project your thought form into your reality if you brainwash yourself through repetition. let me summaries this book for you, for anyone who've actually read few pre new age astral projection books written hundreds of years ago, where they teach you to project your thought into objects at first, contemplate what you see and then finally project your consciousness into the sky-universe and break the time-space barrier, they are teaching the exact same thing and methods, bur formulated in a different way, and eliminating all the spirituality and God factor and future methods involving contemplating God through prayer and meditation, by teaching your to project into your past/present/future and combining these methods with your desires for money and a better life, things that may fulfill by chance or not. what they don't tell you is that you's open to dangerous entities that will eat you alive and drive you mad and anyone with new age practical experience will validate this if it's done without proper guidance and deep prayer. also they validate the reincarnation BS and stating that their method breaks the reincarnation cycle because you actually get to live your true correct life, where in fact the cycles of hell have been broken by Christ that took people our of hell and preached that he is the Way to further salvation

congrats Bjorn, your channel is that one rare nonfic review channel that has such a wide range of interesting topics, not just self-helps!

I cannot compliment Robert Greene enough. He truly is a caring & helpful "professor type" that has a whole lot of mindfulness through accumulating knowledge, wisdom, ones own life experiences and awareness to APPLY those values into practical action steps. Now that sounded like I'm a promoter or a writer. I'm not a promoter and I don't have any books on the market nor am I "a hired gun" of some type. I am just a person who has listened to the advice from Robert Greene, taken notes and APPLIED HIS VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO EVERY DAY ACTION STEPS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK. ROBERT, WHERE IS MY STIPEND?😂😭THANK YOU ROBERT GREENE.

Nicely succinct review/testimonial. This book is a top 10 for me.

Johann Hari: Lost Connections. Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression - And The Unexpected Solutions. Published 2018.

What are you reading this week? 🤔

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Its interesting how different you're brain, thoughts, emotions can be after scrolling on tiktok vs after reading a book. I haven't read the book but I like how you removed labels, because i too am inclined to believe that a lot people are experiencing adhd symptoms because of social media rather than it being inherited or genetic. Note I have done 0 research lol but just a hunch.

Question, is it necessary (or recommended) to read the first two instalments of the series before Right Thing, Right Now?

great video!! gonna give it a listen

Would have been nice if you had explained more why you found it that good. I am interested in history, psychology and human abysses but reading the accounts of some negative cynical middle-aged man sounds pretty tedious and depressing. Then ofc it could be interesting to analyse him as a character.

A bit overrated to be honest

Good review. Thanks!

I read this book when I was at school in Bulgaria and in my spare time I was shepherd, looking after two families of goats and sheep around 10 in total. I always took books with me and I enjoyed this one. I will reed again soon

Amazing and concise video explaining this book perfectly. Thank you 🙏

Try another economics book: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein.

A study of more than 50 mammal species found that, in over 80 per cent of cases, zoo animals live longer than their wild counterparts. Sholdn’t wild animals live longer with all that stressors like hunger, heat, cold etc or they are only promoting lifespan in humans 🤔

This is going to be a great month for reading. I'm most looking forward to Nexus and Fierce Desires but I'll take me a while to get to them. So many books to read. Keep up the good work!

The 'Momento Mori' by Joanna Ebenstein. And 'How Economics Explains The World: A Short History of Humanity' by Andrew Leigh look pretty interesting. I swear, I read more than just end of life stuff. It is more due to 'The bug' and personal life events. Last summer I was mostly reading productivity and 'Goosebumps' books. However, in my opinion/personal experience, reading end of life content is like taking bad tasting medicine that is effective. It's uncomfortable but you reap the benefits afterwards. I did finish 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius but now, I am thinking about reading ' Journey of Souls' by Micheal Newton.

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So many books to choose from! Right now I'm reading "Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages" by Matthew Green. I think next up will be "Nature's Ghosts: The World We Lost and How To Bring It Back" by Sophie Yeo. I'm looking forward to a very good reading time in September. Thank you, Bjorn.

What’s a book club without the capacity for civilised discussion? And if you crowbar open the being of the other participants that is antithetical to civility actually. And it’s unclean as the Bible says 🪬. Is there anyone left who isn’t a wolf here and who wants to observe ego boundaries between self and other? Frankly you’ve all taken #fomo too far when you’ve all been persuaded as a mass of people to just drool and offload all bodily waste upon your fellow man. It is profane and it’s unclean and nasty. Do you all idolise Dawkins so much that you just can’t live without watching him go to the lavatory? Couldn’t you just patiently wait for him to release his next book and considering the pros and cons and merits and fallacies of which there are many of said book (instead of following him into the gents in the unseen spiritual realm?) This is mass psychosis and it’s exactly what the Bible spoke of in the last days. Please get right with Jesus. You’ve all ruined my going to book clubs because you all cave in upon me and I have to carry all the bricks (or maybe books in this case) on my shoulders because of your evil eye because you’re lawless Pharisees and pagans and unbelievers. I don’t even care if you don’t believe the Truth. You would all claim to be civilised but you have no manners or sense of propriety and your knowledge and material existence is a thin patina for your atavism and savagery. And it’s the dregs. It’s the dregs. And there is a way to live that is clean. You’d rather be groom of the stool for some fallen men you idolise rather than Kings under the King of Kings who is the Lord Jesus re: whom and without whom none of these books would have been written. And who is one way or another the ghost author behind all that has been written. He is the Alpha and the Omega. I can’t go to a book club because you’re all barking mad.

Wow, good call. Many of these look very interesting. Momentum mori esp. Thanks for sharing. ;)

Which one of these books sounds most interesting to you?

Would love to hear your take on this book: The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe by Lent, Jeremy. It looks like it might be a big book, so maybe save it for a time when you are feeling better! Congratulations on your 10K subs as well.

Toastmasters made a massive change in my life.I'm always pleased to hear others with a shared experience.