Sloww currently has 450+ posts on the site, but you can skip to the most popular posts below. Happy learning and living!
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- Most Popular Posts
- Sloww Summary Series
- Sloww Stages Series
- Slow Living Post Series
- Busyness Post Series
- Happiness Post Series
- Ikigai Post Series
- Synthesis Post Series
- Birth Lottery & Free Will Post Series
- Top Book Summary Posts
- Top Life Purpose Posts
- Top Money Posts
- Top Work Posts
- Top Practical Posts
- Top Quote Posts
- More Personal Favorites
Most Popular Posts:
- The Truth about Ikigai: Definitions, Diagrams & Myths about the Japanese Life Purpose
- On Enlightenment: 3 Meanings of the “Chop Wood, Carry Water” Zen Quote
- 18 Wealth Lessons from “The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel (Book Summary)
- A Simple Wellness Strategy: MEDS (Meditation, Exercise, Diet, Sleep)
- 10 Mind-Expanding Thoughts on “The Egg” by Andy Weir for its 10th Anniversary (Short Story Summary)
- 10 Life-Transforming Themes & 25 Top Quotes from “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu (Book Summary)
- I had an Existential Crisis! (+7 Ways to Positively Navigate Yours)
- Slow Living 101: What is Slow Living?
- The Blind Men and The Elephant: A Short Story about Perspective
- 3 Profound Life Lessons from “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace
Sloww Summary Series:
- 10 Most Life-Changing Ideas I’ve Discovered after 400+ Posts
- A “Short” Summary of Everything I Learned from Sloww’s First 100 Posts
- A “Short” Summary of Everything I Learned from Sloww’s Posts 101-200
- A “Short” Summary of Everything I Learned from Sloww’s Posts 201-300
- A “Short” Summary of Everything I Learned from Sloww’s Posts 301-400
- 🔒 Sloww Sunday Summary: 50 Highlights from Newsletter Issues 1-50
- 🔒 Sloww Sunday Summary: 100 Highlights from Newsletter Issues 51-100
Sloww Stages Series:
- What is Sloww?
- Sloww Stage 1: How do I design a lighter life?
- Sloww Stage 2: How do I find higher purpose?
- Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?
- Sloww Stage 4: How do I embody wisdom?
- 🔒 Behind the Scenes: How my Personal Development Journey maps to Ego Development Theory (Sloww Stages vs EDT Stages)
Slow Living Post Series:
- Slow Living 101: What is Slow Living?
- Slow Living 201: A Deep Dive into Slow Living & The Slow Movement
- Slow Living 301: How to Start a Slow Living Lifestyle
- Bonus: What is Downshifting? How to Transition into Simple Living
Busyness Post Series:
- Busyness 101: Why are we SO BUSY in Modern Life? (7 Hypotheses)
- Busyness 201: A Brief History of Work & BUSY in America
- Busyness 301: The Future of BUSY, Work & Leisure
- Bonus: Research Says We’re Not Busy — So Why Do We FEEL So Busy?
Happiness Post Series:
An updated version of this post series is available as a free eBook: The Hierarchy of Happiness eBook
- Happiness 101: The Beginner’s Guide for How to be Happy (Money, Simplicity, Relationships, Culture)
- Happiness 201: The Advanced Guide for How to be Happy Psychologically (Expectations, Practice, Choice, Purpose)
- Happiness 301: The Master’s Guide for How to be Happy Spiritually (Presence, Letting Go, Transcendence, Joy)
Ikigai Post Series:
The new ikigai eBook is live! It includes everything I’ve learned about ikigai over the last five years: Ikigai 2.0: A Step-by-Step Guidebook to Finding Life Purpose & Making Money Meaningfully (+ Bonus Workbook)
- The Truth about Ikigai: Definitions, Diagrams & Myths about the Japanese Life Purpose
- What is the Hedgehog Concept by Jim Collins? (& How Does it Compare to Ikigai?)
- Ikigai 2.0: Evolving the Ikigai Diagram for Life Purpose (& Why and How it Needs to be Redesigned)
- My Ikigai 2.0 — A Detailed Personal Ikigai Example of How to Find Your Life Purpose
- 🔒 Monetizing Purpose Synthesis: How to Meaningfully Make Money from Your Life Purpose (+ Infographics)
Synthesis Post Series:
An attempt to better articulate what I do.
- Synthesizers: Why the Future Belongs to the Idea Connectors
- Combinatorial Creativity: The Art of “New” Ideas & Why Everything is a Remix
- “So, what do you do?” An Introduction to Synthesis, Integration, Interdisciplinarity, & More
- Bonus: A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
Birth Lottery & Free Will Post Series:
Probably the most important stuff on the entire site.
- The Lottery of Birth: All the Things You Don’t Control in Life
- The Ovarian Lottery: A Thought Experiment from Warren Buffett
- The Lottery of Birth: “Creating Freedom” by Raoul Martinez (Book Summary)
- 25 Ways to Melt Away the Feeling of Free Will
- 50+ Free Will Questions to Examine the Nature of Your Reality
- No Free Will: The Biology of Behavior with Robert Sapolsky
- The Homunculus Fallacy & Mitigated Free Will (Robert Sapolsky Short Excerpt)
- The Ultimate Question: “Free Will” by Sam Harris (Book Summary)
- Does Free Will Exist? The Latest Thinking from Sam Harris
- 🔒 How to Unravel Free Will with Sam Harris (+ Infographic)
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: What is the Subject-Object Relationship?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: What is Enlightenment?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Is this the Holy Shit Moment?
- 🔒 Lottery of Birth Synthesis: How to See Yourself and the World Drastically Differently (+ Infographic)
- 🔒 Behind the Scenes: Dissecting my own Lottery of Birth Ticket
- 🔒 Behind the Scenes: How I Live with the Lottery of Birth & Lack of Free Will
Top Book Summary Posts:
Also check out all book summaries and my reading list & book recommendations.
- “Ikigai” by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
- “The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel
- “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu
- “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
- “The Untethered Soul” by Michael Singer + 🔒 Premium Summary
- “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
- “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl + 🔒 Premium Summary
- “Essentialism” by Greg McKeown + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
- “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
- “Atomic Habits” by James Clear + 🔒 Premium Summary
Top Life Purpose Posts:
Wondering about my recommended purpose approach? See the ikigai post series above.
- Start Here: What is Your Purpose in Life? 10 Deep Thoughts to Guide Your Hero’s Journey to Finding Life Purpose
- And Here: 🔒 Life Purpose Search Synthesis: I Googled “Life Purpose” & Read 100+ Articles (Literally)
- Spiritual Approach: Your Purpose on “A New Earth” (Eckhart Tolle Book Summary #2)
- Religious Approach: Eternal Purpose: “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren (Book Summary)
- Vocation Approach: On Vocation, True Self, & the Inner Journey: “Let Your Life Speak” by Parker J. Palmer (Book Summary)
- Talent Stacking Approach: What is a Talent Stack? (& How I’m Thinking about My Unique Stack)
- Simple Approach: Life Purpose: “The Crossroads of Should and Must” by Elle Luna (Book Summary)
- Inspirational Short Story: Edit Your Purpose: The Story of the Cracked Pot
- Inspirational Perspectives: 20 Life Purpose Perspectives from Oprah’s “The Path Made Clear” (Book Summary)
- Mortality Approach: 15 Deep Insights about Death to Understand the Meaning of Life & Live Fully Alive and Write Your Own Eulogy — Then Live Up To It
Top Money Posts:
- 🔒 Behind the Scenes: My Evolving Relationship toward the “Money Middle Way”
- Money Mind Manifesto — Master Your Mind from the Mental Disease of More Money
- “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)” by Naval Ravikant (Summary & Infographic)
- FIRE 101: A Beginner’s Guide to FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)
- A Systems Approach to Lifestyle Design: “Early Retirement Extreme” by Jacob Lund Fisker (Book Summary) + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
- How Much Income is Enough Money for Well-Being, According to Research?
- The 80/20 Rule for Money: The 3 Ways Americans Spend Most of Their Money (& How You Can Save More)
- Money Showdown: Average American Spending vs Sloww’s Household Expenses (& How we Cut our Spending 30% in a Year!)
- Is the American Dream Waking Up? The Truth about Social Mobility in the US
- What is Geographic Arbitrage & 7 Interesting Ideas to Get Started
- Lifestyle Inflation: The Danger of “I Deserve This”
Top Work Posts:
- Total Work: When Humans are Transformed into Workers and Nothing Else (Were we Born only to Work?)
- Post-Workism & Total Work: 5 Future Scenarios when the Religion of Work Loses Followers
- The Busy Spectrum (High Busyness): What You Need to Know about Workism & Hustle Porn
- The Busy Spectrum (Low Busyness): What You Need to Know about Bullshit Jobs & Performative Busyness
- Thought Experiment: What if You Only Had a 15-Hour Workweek?
Top Practical Posts:
- My Buy Nothing Year: How I Bought NO Clothing for a Year & 5 Things I Learned
- How to Start a Slow Living Lifestyle (10 Ways to Get Started)
- 10 Slow Travel Tips for Your Next Adventure
- Digital Minimalism Defined & 10 Digital Declutter Tips
- Too busy? 10 Tips for Slowing Down & Becoming Unbusy
- 7 Unbusy Tips for the Daily Work Grind (Reader Q&A)
- Timeboxing: The #1 Productivity Hack for Actually Doing Your To-Do List (+ 10 Timeboxing Tips)
- Decluttering 101: How to Declutter Your Home Crash Course (12 tips, methods, and approaches)
Top Quote Posts:
- 40 Marcus Aurelius Quotes, 7 Deep Questions, & More from “Meditations”
- 10 Purposeful Themes & 25 Top Quotes from “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl
- 45 Lifelong Learning Quotes that will Inspire You to be a Student of Life
- 35+ Alan Watts Quotes on the Meaning of Life, Knowing Yourself, Slowing Down, & More
- 25+ Art of Living Quotes to Inspire the Ultimate “Work” of our Lives
- 50 Profound Quotes & 5 Deep Questions from “The Lessons of History”
- 11 Daily Life Quotes to Set Your Perspective Every Morning in 1 Minute
- 25+ Charlie Munger Quotes to Live a Wise & Wealthy Life
- 30+ Sadhguru Quotes from the Yogi, Mystic & Visionary on Seeking, Inner Engineering, & More
- 15 Timeless Thoughts from Naval Ravikant + 50 Naval Quotes on Peace, Happiness, the Meaning of Life, & More
More Personal Favorites:
- 50+ Deep Perspectives on Humanity’s Underlying & Ultimate Challenge (Hint: Ourselves)
- An Introduction to “Ego Development Theory” by Susanne Cook-Greuter (EDT Summary)
- Humanity is Stuck in Development: Civilization’s Critical Evolution to the “Watershed Stage” in Ego Development Theory
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Is Free Thinking Even Possible?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: What is Going On?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Is this the Strangest Thing in Life?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Do You Control Your Life Path?
- 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Do You Live Life, or Does Life Live You?
