Favorites of 2024

Favorite books and content from 2024.

Favorites of 2024

Favorites Books

My favorite books read this year, not ranked in any particular order.

I. Boredom by Alberto Moravia

Favorite Quotes:

"I imagined you to be a terrible woman, of the type that can ruin a man."

"Pity she's not as good as she is beautiful"

II. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover

Favorite Quotes:

"Because once you step into the Zone, that’s it. You own Time."

"You control everything. Somebody is talking at you . . . but you don’t hear and don’t want to.

Later tonight someone—media, colleague, family—will say you’re a jerk, rude, and uncommunicative.

They don’t get it and you don’t care.

“In your own little world,” they say. Yes. Exactly. Get out."

III. Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue

Favorite Quote:

"Invincible...it's merely a word."

IV. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite Quote:

"The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a circle.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. “A man,” said Oliver Cromwell, “never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.”

Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius and hence their dangerous attraction for men. From the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.”

- Circles