In Praise of Slowness

In Praise of Slowness

By
Carl Honoré
Carl Honoré
2004 • 336 pages

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417 books

Philosophy

Apeiron
Alina
The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
Dialogues
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Being and Nothingness
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
The Art of War
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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257 books

300

FetesandFika
Amanda
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Poor Economics
10% Less Democracy
Zoom
Starquake
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
La Fee Carabine

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29 books

Mindset Narratives

FetesandFika
Amanda
Hug Your Haters
In Praise of Slowness
Life in half a second
The Scout Mindset
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage

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24 books

Productivity

FetesandFika
Amanda
Work the System
Hug Your Haters
In Praise of Slowness
Grit : The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Life in half a second
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

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90 books

Simplicity

DebNance
Deb Nance
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
Story of a Soul
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Silence
The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Essentialism
Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity

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59 books

Work

DebNance
Deb Nance
The Waitress Was New
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
Independent People
Midnight's Children
The Most Human Human
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

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17,813 books

My Library

Nitin
Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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59 books

2023 Reading Challenge

michaelvh
Mikey
The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology
Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890
White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka
The Library of the Dead
In Praise of Slowness
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

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25 books

To Read I Own

alrowell
Al Rowell
In Praise of Slowness
The Shadow Man
The Hunger Games
The Man in the High Castle
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Atlas Shrugged

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151 books

Nonfiction

Lizfrances
Elizabeth Dean
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The End of Men
An Epidemic of Absence
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Bad Religion

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12 books

2013

jarias
Jay
The Ascent of Humanity
The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
Griftopia
In Praise of Slowness
Letters to a Young Scientist
Debt: The First 5,000 Years