13 Things I Learned Before I Turned 20. You Get 25,000 Mornings As An Adult: Here Are 8 Ways To Not Waste Them. ©iStockphoto.com/bo1982 You’ll wake up for about 25,000 mornings in your adult life, give or take a few.
According to a report from the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy in the United States is 79 years old. Most people in wealthy nations are hovering around the 80–year mark. Women in Japan are the highest, with an average life expectancy of 86 years. If we use these average life expectancy numbers and assume that your adult life starts at 18 years old, then you’ve got about 68 years as an adult. (86 – 18 = 68) Perhaps a little less on average.
. (68 years as an adult) x (365 days each year) = 24,820 days. 25,000 mornings. That’s what you get in your adult life. 25,000 times you get to open your eyes, face the day, and decide what to do next. Once I realized this, I started thinking about how I could develop a better morning routine. 8 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Morning. How To Read Philosophy. In the old days, whenever I would buy an album, I was distrustful if I liked it too much on first listen.
The first few times through, I wanted to be confused and intrigued, not tapping my foot and singing along. If listening to it came too easy, I knew it wasn’t a keeper. I wanted the album to push me into new emotions, new experiences, to show me different ways of going. Think of The Smiths, The Boredoms, Liz Phair, Animal Collective, Brian Eno: each gives us a different way of going that is odd and beautiful and distinctive and certainly not easy — even Eno’s ambient pieces or, rather, especially Eno’s ambient pieces. Easy shmeasy: I want my music to be great. Philosophy foils most readers — and usually right from the get go. This is not to say that Hegel’s introductory sentence puts anyone at ease. And then there’s Nietzsche who plays such subtle, complex rhetorical games with his readers. Yes, reading philosophy is not the easiest, most casual thing one can do. Why not argue?
50 Unintentional Quotes From Children That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine. “I’m watching you make my sandwich so that when you die I will know how to do it.” 2.
Magnus_Maximus “When I get out, I swear I’m going to eat you.”image – Joanna Bourne My sons were about 2 and 4 when their pet goldfish died. I attempted to use the situation as an opportunity to discuss death and mortality. 3. ronearc My daughter was only around 18 months old when she uttered her first, full sentence.She loved to lift the air conditioning grate in the floor of our bedroom and stuff her toys down there. 4. alfredfjones “Yes…. 3-year-old Brother:”If God looks after people, who looks after God?”
5. I’m the child in this story, but let me tell you about when I was four.I’m named after my maternal grandmother who died about two years before I was born, and it’s worth mentioning that I was the first grandchild born after her death. 24 Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Will Change Your Life. Here’s the problem with reading the books that everyone else has read.
It makes you more like everyone else. Checking off the various books from your high school curriculum, and then, perhaps the “100 Greatest Books Ever Written” is the educational equivalent of skating to where the puck is and not where it’s going. Reading is about insight into the human experience, about understanding. What does following in the footsteps of everyone else get you? It gets you to exactly the same conclusions as everyone else. Not to say that the books in our “canon” aren’t valuable, because they certainly are. The Western world has been publishing books for some 3,000 years. Which is why I put together the list of books below in their rough historical order. 1. (a more accessible translation can be found in Xenophon’s Cyrus The Great: The Arts of Leadership and War. 51 Absolutely Terrifying Unsolved Mysteries. 15 Signs They’re Not Over You (Hooray?) 1.
They still call you asking for little favors or with flimsy excuses like they can’t remember the name of that bar you went to that one time. 2. They show up at places you introduced them to still. Like if you always went to a specific restaurant and then now you see them there all the time. 15 Signs They’re Not Over You (Hooray?)