A Simpler Life
A Guide to Greater Serenity, Ease and Clarity
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Rachel Lanning
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This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity, and how to live comfortably with less.
The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful, and focused on the essentials.
But finding simplicity is not always easy; it isn’t just a case of emptying out our closets or trimming back commitments in our diaries. True simplicity requires that we understand the roots of our distractions – and develop a canny respect for the stubborn reasons why things can grow complex and overwhelming.
This book is a guide to the simpler lives we crave and deserve. It considers how we might achieve simplicity across a range of areas. Along the way, we learn about Zen Buddhism, modernist architecture, monasteries, psychoanalysis, and why we probably don’t need more than three good friends or a few treasured belongings.
It isn’t enough that our lives should look simple; they need to be simple from the inside. This book takes a psychological approach, guiding us towards less contorted hearts and minds. We have for too long been drowning in excess and clutter from a confusion about our aspirations. A Simpler Life helps us tune out the static and focus on what properly matters to us.
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- Cliff Moyce
- 19-06-22
Non-intuitive wisdom
There are a million books on downsizing and leading a simpler life (which in itself is ironic). They are often terrible (eg overwrought, self-promoting rubbish is how I would describe one self-help best seller of the last five years), or are statements of the obvious. This short, simple book is different in that it does an excellent job of defining the problems to be solved; describing the negative effects of those problems; and, proposing (often surprising) ideas for solving said problems. I particularly enjoyed the non-intuitive nature of some of the solutions, eg reading less, and travelling less. Whether you agree with the solutions of not, they certainly gave me food for thought.
As for the narration…. the sweet, almost child-like voice of the beautiful, talented, young British actress is spoiled by her use of the Ross Kemp method (U.K. actor and TV presenter) for this narration. Ie sentences being turned into three sentences so that Every. Second. Or third. Word. Can be. Emphasised. Argh… Whatever happened to actors breathing so they can say a whole sentence in one go?
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-01-23
please re record without automated narration
the contents of this book are very good principles.
but please re-record this without an automated narration. it somewhat takes away from the importance of the messages conveyed
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- Gabriel Akin
- 16-01-22
Moving, insightful, thought provoking
The school of life has once again reframed my opinion on many areas such as travel, materialism and work. This book encourages us to do the difficult, but necessary questioning behind our reasoning and goals. I intend to revisit this book periodically, to know it well.
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- Andrew
- 28-04-22
Brilliant, thank you
A giant hug of consolation, lifts weights away and leaves simplicity in it's wake.
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- Amazonian 77
- 04-02-22
Good concept but .... cannot summary in 1 line.
Good concept but .... cannot summary in 1 line.
A bit got bored on the way and I found a repetition piece taken over from another Skool of life book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-23
brilliant
worth reading or listening to. plenty of insight.. lots to learn. love it. recommended
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-23
Day-dreaming instead
The speaker’s voice is lovely but it tends to make me daydream and not actually take in what’s being said. I liked the examples used to demonstrate the principles but I think these could be more complete, it felt some principles “hung” without full conclusion. It might be better in hardcopy.
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- Tony Callaghan
- 10-06-23
Making Sense of Doing Life
Sound teachings on the demands of 'Doing Life ' as opposed to living it !
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- Stuart Stewart
- 28-02-24
A tonic for the mind, for life.
A beautifully written and arresting collection of wisdom to help you lead a more wholesome, refined and simple life.
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- JoePublic
- 17-05-24
Meditation on Simplicity
This book provides new perspectives on what simplicity means, why and how one might pursue it.
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