{"id":2265,"date":"2017-02-13T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chrisrivard.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:42:56","slug":"notes-from-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/notes-from-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that I’ve looked very hard, but I haven’t found a good way to get to the highlights I make in the books I read on the Kindle. In Crawford’s book, I took pictures\u00a0within a note in Evernote and let Evernote\u00a0handle the OCR scan. \u00a0Then I simply exported and cropped the images. A bit too time-consuming.<\/p>\n

Well I looked in my Amazon account and found my notes this morning!<\/p>\n

Here are some choice highlights from some\u00a02016 books.<\/p>\n

From The Art of Grace:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 1. Slow down and plan. There\u2019s no way to be graceful when you\u2019re rushing around haphazardly.<\/li>\n
  2. 2. Practice tolerance and compassion. This goes along with slowing down. Take time to listen and understand.<\/li>\n
  3. 3. Make room for others\u2014on the sidewalk, at the bus stop, in a coffee shop, during a business meeting, and in your life.<\/li>\n
  4. 4. Strive to make things easy for people, even in small ways.<\/li>\n
  5. 5. Make things easy for yourself. Be easily pleased. Accept compliments, take a seat on the bus if someone offers it to you, embrace any kindness that comes your way. This is graciousness, and it is a gift for someone else. You are giving another person the gift of being graceful.<\/li>\n
  6. 6. Lighten your load. Shed painful shoes, disencumber yourself of heavy purses, backpacks, and briefcases. Let the bad stuff go, physically and emotionally.<\/li>\n
  7. 7. Take care of your body. The more you move, the better you\u2019ll move. And the better you\u2019ll feel.<\/li>\n
  8. 8. Practice extreme noticing. Look for grace where you least expect it.<\/li>\n
  9. 9. Be generous. It\u2019s a lovely thing to anticipate and fulfill someone\u2019s hopes.<\/li>\n
  10. 10. Enjoy. Raise a glass, as Lionel Barrymore did in the movie Grand Hotel, \u201cto our magnificent, brief, dangerous life\u2014and the courage to live it!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    From When Breathe Becomes Air:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Moral duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity, and so the duty to bear mortal responsibility pulled me back into the operating room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    From Purity: A Novel:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    She proceeded to cry torrentially. The only way I could get her to stop was to become, right then and there, a person who experienced as keenly as she did the unfairness of my being able to pee standing up. I made this adjustment to my personality\u2014and a hundred others like it in our early months together\u2014and henceforth I peed sitting down whenever she could hear me. (When she couldn\u2019t, though, I peed in her sink. The part of me that did this was the part that ultimately ruined us and saved me.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    From Training Essentials for Ultrarunning:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Successful outcome goals strike a balance between being achievable and offering a challenge. Where you sit on the achievability teeter-totter depends on your individual tolerance for risk. As you set goals that are more challenging and closer to the limits of your capabilities, you must simultaneously accept a higher level of risk associated with those goals. The inverse is also true, but sometimes it\u2019s harder to grasp. Goals beyond your physical capabilities are not well-constructed goals. It is also important to realize that if you have a low tolerance for risk, an extremely challenging goal is just as inappropriate as a goal that is way beyond your physical capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Not that I’ve looked very hard, but I haven’t found a good way to get to the highlights I make in the books I read on the Kindle. In Crawford’s book, I took pictures\u00a0within a note in Evernote and let Evernote\u00a0handle the OCR scan. \u00a0Then I simply exported and cropped the images. A bit too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}