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    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations On the Art of Doing
    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations On the Art of Doing
    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations On the Art of Doing
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    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations On the Art of Doing

    By Kyle Eschenroeder

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    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations on the Art of Doing by Kyle Eschenroeder lays out over a hundred short, punchy devotionals on the nature and importance of action. This pithy book is scrammed with insightful advice on how to take more action in life so you can become the man you want to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 1, 2017
    ISBN9780989190381
    The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations On the Art of Doing

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    • 5/5
      I love this Pocket Guide, whenever I'm feeling stuck about something or unsure what to do I can flip to any page (or few pages) and each meditation offers motivating insight that you really cant deny. It's not a solution to life's problems but will always inspire action for me.
    • 1/5
      Great book. A must read for very one who wants to take action.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome. Action is key in any progress and success and this The Pocket Guide to Action has put it the best way understandable and inspiring. I know whoever takes into action what they will read in this book, there will be no limit to human progress and growth. Knowledge is potential power, Action is power.

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    The Pocket Guide to Action - Kyle Eschenroeder

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    PART I:

    PHILOSOPHY AS ACTION

    The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That’s all you need to know. – Marcus Aurelius

    HOW TO LIVE?

    Action focuses this philosophical question into practice by transforming abstract reasoning into concrete reality.

    Worthwhile philosophers are connected to reality.

    Theories do no good unless they can reliably guide action—in our thinking and our physical actions.

    Twenty minutes of meditation will show you what hours of reading the Bhagavad Gita never could. The concept of virtue is useless unless it drives your behavior.

    You can never know if a theory is practical until you put it into action.

    When you take a step forward you can truly grok a theory. You can feel what was being talked about.

    And then you know whether or not the idea works for you. In other words, you now understand the only thing that matters.

    To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. – Henry David Thoreau

    INACTION IS EXPENSIVE

    If we try and fail, we see the cost. The number of hours and dollars spent on the project. We feel the pain when it doesn’t work. The embarrassment is acute.

    This makes inaction tempting.

    We don’t consider refusing to choose as a choice. We think we’re safe if we don’t expose ourselves to failure. We don’t appreciate the consequences of inaction because they are slow, chronic, and non-obvious. That’s what makes them dangerous.

    You don’t get to escape pain.

    The pain that comes with action is acute, scars you, and makes you grow.

    The pain that comes from inaction is low-grade, softens you, and decays your soul.

    YOU ARE NOT WAITING TO LIVE…

    You are waiting to act.

    That stagnation, low-grade frustration, and perpetual exhaustion comes from your refusal to act.

    The reason you don’t feel alive is because you’ve worn yourself out thinking about things instead of actually doing them. You haven’t moved because your habit is to flinch away from

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