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The Wisdomous - A book, Sonder and Trials.

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The Wisdomous - A book, Sonder and Trials.

Ivan Nyagatare
Apr 7, 2021
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The Wisdomous - A book, Sonder and Trials.

www.thewisdomous.com

Hey Wisdomous friends,

Welcome to your weekly dose of wisdomous nuggets.

Last week, I learned a new word : Sonder.

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Sonder is the understanding that everyone has their own life and they definetly don't care as much as you think.

📌 A Secret : I am halfway through writing my book. If you fancy peaking through, most of the nuggets in it are on my instagram captions.


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1:29 PM ∙ Apr 7, 2021

Nuggets

  • Spend time to invest in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

  • He began with the essential, and then, working on, would deal with the less important matters, one after the other, in an orderly way.

  • "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised" - George F. Will.

  • " An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh" - Will Rogers

I wrote

  • Don't be the sage on the stage, be the guide on the side.

  • How do you remember what you haven't lived?

I read

The importance of having organising principles: Organising principles work like gravity, pulling choices into orbit. The bigger the principle, the stronger the gravity. Earth pulls the moon, but the sun pulls all the planets in our solar system.

Tools & Tips

Trials are part of the journey - A lesson from the Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realised, the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realising our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream.

That’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

For Fun

Songs.

  • Blade Of Hope by Leo Bhanji.

  • Rely On Me by James Smith.

  • Fight For Me by GAWVI ft Lecrae.

Movies

  • Under the Stadium Lights : A deep dive in characters. Loved it.

  • Seaspiracy : Humans are the worst creatures ever.

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