A well lived life — Dr D’s Diagnosis

# Chapter 212

We need action. And for the record, thinking is an action. I am using the word action as the antithesis to the emotional feeling despair rollercoaster most people’s experience in life has become. So I mean action as doing and thinking, and we aren’t accomplish nearly enough of either. Time to get doing!

This does not include watching TV or doomscrolling the internet, or reading “the news” or facebook or twitter or any form of social media (which is neither media nor social) nor downloading movies or streaming brainless entertainment.

It does include reading difficult material, alternative viewpoints, having time blocks for thinking, blocks of time for projects of a doing/action nature, regular conversations with bright people, who preferably are smarter than you and challenge you to be your best self, and regular intense doses of humility and learning.

This is the picture of a well lived life.