So for the next several years I wrote down a batch of advice on my birthday, and shared it with my family and friends. Complement Kelly’s Excellent Advice for Living with Henry Miller, upon turning 80, on the measure of a life well lived, Maya Angelou’s letter of advice to her younger self, and this compendium of resolutions for a life worth living drawn from some of our wisest cultural elders, then revisit my own 16 life-learnings from 16 years of The Marginalian. A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others. But I’m not going higher than that because there were no (or few) explanations as to why it’s good advice.

Highly recommend giving this a read and then beginning on your own list of collected advice for the next generation.If you need to place an item elsewhere – say to charge a device on the opposite wall – put a few larger pieces next to it.

He has wisdom for career, relationships, parenting, andfinances, and gives guidance for practicalmatters ranging from travel to troubleshooting. As a result, learning how to relate well with others can make your path to a better life much smoother. So much so that simply showing up on bad days is worth far more than superhuman efforts on rare good days. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Perhaps the most counterintuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others the more you’ll get.Kevin has distilled complex and important ideas into simple, actionable advice: a compelling antidote to thinkism. I read this book regularly and the advice is short, simple, and easy to remember, which means it comes up in my day to day all the time and helps give me a good framework for making better choices. Unless you choose a monastic existence tucked away on some remote mountain, you’ll spend a significant slice of time interacting with your fellow human beings.

Yet, you’d be hard pressed to go more than a couple pages without finding some truly excellent advice that necessitates stopping to ponder and really ingest. Yet as cliche as this sounds, there's a new original gem for every expected recycled quote - and that's what makes it interesting enough to read. The best way to advise young people is to find out what they really want to do and then advise them to do it. Hovering between the practical and the poetic, his learnings are sometimes seemingly obvious reminders of what we know but habitually forget, sometimes pleasingly contrarian, always unselfconsciously sincere. Yet their individual (and combined) power is of course when you pause, reflect and ponder how you might interpret and potentially integrate.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Excellent Advice for Living is a treasure trove of insights that will transform the way you live, work, and relate to others, all wrapped up in easily digestible bites of wisdom to help you live a good life.