Hey Friends 👋🏼

Welcome to Issue 004 of Marginal Thoughts. Let’s dive right in.

The Meditation

Sleep is vital.

Lack of quality sleep is detrimental to our longevity and mental health.

Focusing on high quality sleep can go a long way towards fixing a laundry list of problems, including our sense of peace and calm.

💡 How’s your sleep? What can you do to improve it?

The Blog

You Should Self-Educate  - An exploration of why self-education is a powerful, affordable path to growth and how libraries, YouTube, and curiosity are all you really need to start.

Self-Inflicted Stress  - A meditation on the stress we manufacture for ourselves, and the slow, imperfect work of learning to let go of thoughts that don't deserve our energy.

The Truth Will Set You Free - But First It Will Piss You Off  - A reflection on the emotional cost of self-discovery and why facing hard truths, as painful as it is, is the only real path to freedom.

Katabasis Review  - Book review of R.F. Kuang's dark academia fantasy - a descent into Hell, morally complex relationships, and prose so tight it leaves a mark.

Create From Passions - A meditation on the creative block and why the antidote is always the same: create from the overflow of your heart, not for the approval of others.

The Marginalia

Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health and Confidence  - This episode of the Huberman Lab podcast features Dr. Paul Conti exploring the foundations of mental health and confidence.  Key Takeaway: We have to spend time being curious about our own trauma to heal from it - and most of us don't do that enough.

My Vault  - A fascinating post from Obsidian CEO Steph Ango on how he personally uses Obsidian to manage his notes and thinking.

Pinewind  - An interesting new blog I discovered this week - worth a browse if you’re bored.

Gratitude

I am grateful for the ability to learn and practice intellectual curiosity.

-Ian