#03 Things I’m curious about

All the books, podcasts, articles and substacks that have kept me curious this week

I can’t believe it’s been 1 year since I started this Substack. My first post was Things to get curious about - why we need to start asking why again and pressing publish on it was incredibly nerve racking. It’s become slightly easier to press that button and that is partly down to you. I never take it for granted that each week you invite me into your inbox, and I get to share my words with you. Every time you press that little heart ❤️ to show me you’ve enjoyed my writing or you pop in the comments to share your own stories it brings me joy.

If you’re just joining me, this is where I share all the books, podcasts, articles and of course Substacks I’ve found interesting.

Have a brilliant week and I’ll be back next Sunday!

I’m listening to…

• How to be alive: with Madeline Dore author of I didn’t do the thing today on 2 Pages with MBS

• Rick Rubin On Creativity Authenticity & Living a Meaningful Life on Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s Podcast Feel Better Live More

I’m reading…

• The power of cumulative vs consistent and why success isn’t being perfect everyday on

  You're Not Going Crazy

• This beautiful list of everyday romantic acts in small romance - on the love letters we didn't realise we’d sent on

  savour

• All the books I've read and don't remember on

  In Writing with Hattie Crisell

• At 52, I changed my entire working life - and here's what I've learned on

  My Goodness! From Jo Elvin
  on building a multi-hyphenate life

• Another brilliant read from

  Holly Whitaker
  in
  Recovering
  Part 1, on transitions: The fundamental ambiguity of being human

• Have we got ‘connection depravation’ do we really care that human connection is under threat. Buzz feed announces it’s using Chat GPT to write some of it’s content

• Can quiet thriving help you get motivated at work this year? Love this idea of making work, actually work for you

• Is burnout finally ‘high profile’ enough for leaders to act why businesses need to do more to support employees before its too late

Top 5 Curiouser and Curiouser posts

• Clearing out - everyone has a Monica cupboard don't they

• Why we need to give ourselves a break, before we break - Will 2023 be the year we finally learn to be kinder to ourselves?

• Why is it so difficult to surrendered control - A life long lesson of learning to go with the flow

• Why are we still so uncomfortable talking about failure - I get comfortable by sharing how I failed in 2022

• New year, same me - Why you don’t have to have it all figured out by the 1st of January

I’m loving…

• The literature clock as discovered in Madeleine Dore’s newsletter

  Madeleine Dore—On Things
  it tells the time using quotes from literature. I’m obsessed

• The ‘Reitoff Principal’ as introduced in Sahil Blooms weekly newsletter The Friday Five this week. If you have trouble resting. This asks you to do nothing productive and ‘write it off’ Challenge accepted.