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4.5
I enjoy Alan Jacobs' writing, and was delighted to read his newest book. As the subtitle says, it is "A reader's guide to a more tranquil mind", and for many of us, tranquility is in short supply these days. Consider this excerpt, which is from a section where he talks about the prevalence of a "situational" conduct of life, wherein we deal with social acceleration by avoiding commitments. He writes "Though the situational conduct of life is clearly distinct from the strategic model, it's a kind of strategy all the same; a way of coping with social acceleration. Bu it's also, or threatens to be, a kind of abandonment of serious reflection on what makes life good. It's a principled refusal to ask, with Horace, 'Where is it virtue comes from is it from books?'"I encourage people to read Jacobs new book unhurriedly and journey with the him to a deeper, more tranquil way to be.Bonus points awarded for reading it outdoors.
