Recently, I have started to read How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell. For anyone interested, here are the 20 themes discussed in the book:
Don't worry about death;Pay attention;
Be born;
Read a lot, forget most of what you read, and be slow-witted;
Survive love and loss;
Use little tricks;
Question everything;
Keep a private room behind the shop;
Be convivial: live with others;
Wake from the sleep of habit;
Live temperately;
Guard your humanity;
Do something no one has done before;
See the world;
Do a good job, but not too good a job;
Philosophize only by accident;
Reflect on everything; regret nothing;
Give up control;
Be ordinary and imperfect;
Let life be its own answer.
Read a lot, forget most of what you read, and be slow-witted;
Survive love and loss;
Use little tricks;
Question everything;
Keep a private room behind the shop;
Be convivial: live with others;
Wake from the sleep of habit;
Live temperately;
Guard your humanity;
Do something no one has done before;
See the world;
Do a good job, but not too good a job;
Philosophize only by accident;
Reflect on everything; regret nothing;
Give up control;
Be ordinary and imperfect;
Let life be its own answer.