This is a 100 page booklet about a niche squat-focused weightlifting style. I called it niche because it’s not the sort of routine you continue for years on end; instead, this weightlifting routine is so intense and brutal you can maintain it only for 6 to 10 weeks at a time before you return to something less soul crushing.
I liked reading this. Reading this, I was reminded that a big chunk of weight lifting really comes down to grit. In recent months, I’ve felt like I’ve been on a treadmill in the gym, not really progressing and getting stronger. Reading this book reminded me that if I work harder, I can achieve more. I’ve been relying on my weight lifting app telling me what to do too much, and not listening to my own body and stressing myself.
I intend to try out the Super Squats style training sometime later this year.
This is a short nonfiction book about the rise of ‘no religion’ in America’s demographics. I thought it was well written and it’s thesis was well presented. Basically, this is about how the demographics of religion have started changing from the 1980’s until the modern day. It focuses on empirical data, providing a new diagram/chart every other page to make points. It was written mainly with a mind towards pastors and preachers, but I found it readable as a layperson.
Check it out if you’re interested.
This book studies and explains why we don’t get along. I’m glad I read it at the same time as ‘The Nones’ above, because they cover complementary topics. In short, ‘The Righteous Mind’ explores how some people see the world through a 6-factor lens of morality, while others have a 3-factor lens. People with 6 factors see the world through: fairness/cheating, care/harm, liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation. Conservative people draw from all six factors fairly equally, while people who are more liberal care more about fairness, care and liberty.
This is an intuitive process present even in children, giving this a strongly ‘nature’ as opposed to ‘nurture.’ However, people can grow up and change to using the opposite morality model, for example if they enter a different community and that community is more liberal or conservative.
This is a good book. I don’t think it picks a side and said ‘liberals are better than conservatives’ or vice versa, but it does point out that conservatives have an unfair advantage because they can campaign more easily by using all six factors, while liberals find that more difficult.
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