Truth Telling + Recommended Reading

Learn to enjoy the sound of silence.

July 17, 2021

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Truth Telling is a newsletter that commits to uncovering the bare truths of life for all to see. It is our attempt to live inside the mental landscapes of the world’s elite thinkers.

“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.”

— Jennifer Egan, Novelist

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

— Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a résumé than to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you’ve gotten back the chest X ray and it doesn’t look so good, or when the doctor writes “prognosis, poor.”

… You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”

— Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life