I've just been recommended another book, something else to add to my audiobook list, my books to read list, or to buy in hardback or softback and put on the side of my bed.
I have plenty of books to read at the moment.
On my desk at work, I have a pile of magazines, a combination of Harvard Business Review, Wired, Surgeons' News from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and some cyclist magazines.
At times, they get transported to and from work intact until I get a moment to scan through them and then bin them.
The trick here is not to feel obligated to read any of this stuff but to read only the bits you would like.
Oliver Burkeman discusses this in his wonderful material. Your big list is not a list; it's not something that you have to get through; it's like a river flowing in front of you. You get to dip your hand in wherever you like to get it wet and pull it back out again. Today, you might read this and finish it, but you may not, or you might get caught up in something else, which is utterly extraordinary.
I have always been a guy who has at least two or three books on the go at once because there are times when I just don't want to read that type of material, and I want to read this.
I am going back and back to Oliver Burkeman's material at the moment because it suits me, but I'm also in the midst of The Crow Road, one of my favourite books of all time and definitely one of my favourite pieces of fiction, and I'm listening to that with Scottish actors on Audible.
I will also definitely flip through all of these magazines (just not today, I don't think), and if a little bit more time gives itself away, I'll go deeper into some aspect of it while recycling all the rest.
Understanding that the choices you have are what not to do instead of what you have to do, really takes the pressure off and let you wonder and marvel at the abundance in front of us and everything we have.
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