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  On the shortness of Life - De...

  Seneca

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  On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae) is a famous moral essay written around 49 AD by the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger. He argues that life is not actually short, but that we waste a large part of it on meaningless things. 
  The most important lesson of On the Shortness of Life of course is that we need to value our time and avoid wasting it at all costs. Sure, we understand this intellectually but how many of us can actually say they truly live? As Maria Popova from Brain Pickings would observe, the essay is “a poignant reminder of what we so deeply intuit yet so easily forget and so chronically fail to put into practice.”

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  Brain Rot Reset - A 30-Day Plan...

  Jonathan Vale

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Brain Rot Reset is a practical audiobook about compulsive scrolling, smartphone overuse, social media addiction, digital distraction, screen time, doomscrolling, and the modern attention crisis. 
   
  If you constantly check your phone, struggle to focus, lose interest in books or films, feel mentally overstimulated, or find yourself trapped in endless scrolling, this book explains what is happening and how to change it. 
   
  You will learn how attention loops form, why notifications and digital environments make distraction harder to resist, why boredom feels uncomfortable, and how to rebuild concentration without relying on extreme digital detox rules. 
   
  The book includes a practical 30-day attention reset built around observing your habits, interrupting compulsive phone use, redesigning your environment, rebuilding deep focus, replacing endless scrolling with meaningful activities, and protecting your attention long term. 
   
  For anyone looking for a phone detox, social media detox, better focus, improved concentration, stronger self-control, digital minimalism, healthier screen habits, deeper work, better productivity, and a clearer mind.

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  How to Be Caring - An Ancient...

  Shantideva

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  Written by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bodhicaryavatara is one of the most beloved and frequently taught works in Buddhism and a favorite of the Dalai Lama. An inspiring and powerful poem that uses a gripping, first-person, confessional voice, it is the most systematic work of ethical thought in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. And its invaluable insights, exhortations, and encouragements about how we can relieve suffering by becoming more caring and compassionate are universal. In How to Be Caring, philosopher and Buddhist scholar Jay Garfield presents a lively new translation of selected verses from Shantideva’s text that capture its powerful lessons for all of us. The result is the clearest, most concise, and most accessible introduction to this masterful Buddhist guidebook about how we can change the world by changing ourselves.Focusing on the life of a bodhisattva, a person committed to attaining awakening for the benefit of all beings, Shantideva argues that the first step to reducing suffering and making the world better is to conquer our own psychopathologies. Urging us to remember that we won’t live forever and therefore need to think about what is most important, the work seeks to inspire us and teach us how to be more generous, thoughtful, polite, patient, committed, and self-aware.

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  Race to the Bottom - Reclaiming...

  Azfar Shafi, Ilyas Nagdee

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  Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? 
  This is not an accident, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has relentlessly attacked powerful movements. Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades, to the fragmentation of Britain's Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party. 
   
  The authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over 'unconscious bias' and rival claims for 'representation' with the struggle for a new, socialist, multi-racial organizing from below.

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  The Pilgrim - SAS Who Dares Wins

  Colin Maclachlan

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  The Pilgrim is the book the MOD tried to ban. It is a rollercoaster of an autobiography of Colin Maclachlan, known for his appearances on shows like Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins and Channel 5's Secrets of the SAS.His autobiography starts with his troubled childhood and escape to the military where, as a fifteen year-old boy, he grows up and matures into the SAS soldier we now recognise. Early chapters describe physical, mental and sexual abuse and Colin could easily have ended up in a home but despite the odds and with the help of both the Children's Panels, NSPCC and some diligent schoolteachers, Colin escaped to the army. Colin had to get special permission to join the army at only fifteen years of age and goes from being a young vulnerable and damaged boy to a capable soldier through preparation for the first Gulf War and joining the oldest and most senior infantry regiment in the British Army, The Royal Scots. From operations in Northern Ireland to being the Queen's Butcher to Colin's first TV cameos on Soldier Soldier and Gladiators, Colin's stories and anecdotes are both exhilarating and hilarious.Colin then describes the arduous SAS selection process, the hardest and most gruelling military selection process in the world. Colin describes in some detail what most have never even heard in this secretive world where Colin goes from a course of what seemed hundreds down to only six percent in six months! The reader is then taken on a never seen before description of life as an SAS operator. Daily life in an operational squadron and the operations, missions and training involved all described in detail. Colin was part of Mountain Troop, D Squadron who were to be involved in some of the most high-profile and dangerous missions in SAS history.

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  The Dead Beat

  Marilyn Johnson

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  Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.

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