On the subject of living with a really atypical skills profile & the constitutional inability to zero in on one thing (hello ADHD) but also just finding that fascinating, the past few days I set a PR memorising cards, deadlifted 1.5 times bodyweight & started this month's ultra endurance challenge

20 books that influenced me
number 8 (I think)
How to be Everything by Emilie Wapnick
continuing the discovery from reading Hank Pfeffer's article Danger: High Voltage about living with a vast array of life goals and activities (& affirming that's OK)
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20 books that stayed with me
Day 7
Fear and Trembling

because not every lasting influence is positive. One of the first texts I encountered as a Theology & Philosophy undergrad. Led me into internal rabbit holes that emerged into very dark places

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On Sunday I'll be at the Oxford Green Fair in Oxford Town Hall with a wonderful group of ethical creators selling Christmas gifts.

I'll have decks of the beautifully illustrated creative thinking card game Mycelium. And creativity posters and books.

www.oxfordtownhall.co.uk/whats-on/upc...

20 books that stayed with/influenced me

Day 6

Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
A foundation novel for the "literature of the ruins" after Europe's wars of the late 90s. Utterly devastating. The closing incantation is remarkable

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20 books that stayed with or influenced me

Day 5
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit

in many ways a similar meditation to Lizzy Hawker's Runner on the limits of human performance, the mindfulness of those endeavours, & spirituality at the edge of achievement
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Books that have stayed with or influenced me
Day 4
Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar

I'm not sure I like it, and have many issues with many of the ideas highlighted but it asks such vital questions that it's the book I recommend more than any other

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duly fetched - you can see the receipt bookmark where I left off!

Books that influenced me
Day 3
Possession by A S Byatt
One of a handful of books I queued outside what was then Dillons for on publication day, and an introduction to the delights of the dual timeline

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20 books that have stayed with me
Day 2
Frances Yates - The Art of Memory
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Trying to do the #20dayBookChallenge as a way of introducing myself. In theory it's no explanation just covers for books that influenced/stayed with me. Not sure I can keep my ADHD in a box long enough to avoid incessant infodumping but I'll try.
Day 1
Runner by Lizzy Hawker
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Creative thinking techniques ancient & modern (some well-known, some I developed) in the style of a memory palace drawn by an early botanist.
My clumsy words alchemically transformed into something beautiful by Sam Warburton (samwarburtoncontentcreator.com)
(Hi res enough to print at A2)

Oxford in the snow. And of course, the Bodleian Libraries shop has a C S Lewis window to confirm that we have reached the season of peak Narnia

I'm absolutely new here and for people I don't know wondering why I followed them, I am going by my tried and tested rule of searching on Banana Yoshimoto to find the most concentrated seam of interesting people in any space (favourite book N.P.)