The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Around three weeks ago I wrote that I had started exercising at home. Since then I've done a session on 17 of 22 days. I'm happy with that.
I got a Kindle Paperwhite recently and I've been reading a lot more than I used to. Like 5-10 times more. It helps to not have to use a distraction-filled phone to read. It seems I'm far from a quick reader though. Amazon claimed that the average reader of the book I just finished spent 2h 40m on it. It's called When Breath Becomes Air and it's 225 pages. That's 1.4 pages per minute. That seems a little strange given it's not a book you should rush through. I spent 7-8 hours on it, including frequent reflecting. Great, great book. I suffered along with him while reading, my stomach tensing, twisting and turning at times.
And now I might check out some of the works referenced by the late author, who loved literature. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. And Nabokov, perhaps. He wrote on the theme of how our own suffering can make us callous to the suffering of others. But which book of his should I read?
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