How to Live
by Derek Sivers
Twenty-seven chapters, each arguing with total conviction for a different way to live (be independent, commit, fill your senses, do nothing, make memories, master something) and each contradicting the others. The last chapter reconciles them. It is a thought experiment in book form and a genuinely original piece of writing.
Read it if…
you want to be argued into and out of every life philosophy in one afternoon.
Skip it if…
you want a single answer; the book refuses on principle.
Three things you will actually use
- Every philosophy is right about something.
- Conviction is cheap; choosing is expensive.
- Your life is the reconciliation.
Do this first
Read the three chapters that annoy you most; they are the ones you need.
Our verdict
Twenty-seven convictions, contradicting.
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