books | Adam Fuller

2020 Recap

My annual review for 2020 is broken down into three sections:

1. Year in Review
2. Three Themes
3. Goals Results

Happy New Year.

This book opened my eyes to the interesting connections between poker and psychology, human behavior and strategic learning. My big takeaway is that learning poker can be a great way to learn about yourself.

Breath

Notes and excerpts from the book, Breath by James Nestor

I highly, highly, highly, very, very, really, really, highly recommend the new book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor.

I finished it earlier this week and it’s the first new book I’ve read this year — new in the sense that it was just released a couple months ago.

It’s one of those jaw-dropping, underlining nearly every page, change-your-life kind of books.

Waking the tiger

Reflections on racism, free speech, front running, guilt, innocence, hypocrisy, healing trauma, our responses to recent events, and other aspects of these unprecedented times

This article is my way of thinking through, slowing down, digging into the nuance, and voicing my opinions on some of the big issues we’re working through these days.

War and Peace

Notes and excerpts from the novel War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

These times keep getting stranger and stranger.

The COVID-19 pandemic keeps us socially distant, digitally dependent, and teetering on an edge of uncertainty.

The economy is in shambles.

The geopolitical relationship between the US and China is disintegrating.

And over the past week the tragic killing of George Floyd, protests, and riots have ratcheted up local, racial, and political tensions.

It’s like we’re living in a big tinderbox and every day presents another series of sparks.

There are many ways to respond to these conditions, and I plan on putting some thoughts together on that topic in a future article.

In the meantime, in today’s article, I’m going to highlight one place I found peace, truth and inspiration in this storm: Tolstoy’s brilliant novel, War and Peace, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

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