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Excellent Advice for Living

Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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Excellent Advice for Living

By: Kevin Kelly
Narrated by: Philip Hernandez
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 “A shorthand manual for living with kindness, decency, and generosity of spirit.” —Maria Popova

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wise, practical advice for life.” —Gretchen Rubin, via Twitter

“One hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom.” —Seth Godin

“All will benefit from [Kelly's] idiosyncratic wit and wry humor.” —People

Wise, practical, optimistic life advice from author and leading technology thinker Kevin Kelly

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier.  To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life’s wisdom into these pages. 

Kelly’s timeless advice covers an astonishing range, from right living to setting ambitious goals, optimizing generosity, and cultivating compassion. He has wisdom for career, relationships, parenting, and finances, and gives guidance for practical matters ranging from travel to troubleshooting.

Excellent Advice for Living is aimed primarily at young people, but speaks to all ages. This is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to navigate life with grace and creativity. Personal Development Personal Success

Critic reviews

Praise for Excellent Advice for Living:

The Marginalian's Favorite Books of 2023

“Hover[s] between the practical and the poetic . . . sometimes pleasingly contrarian, always unselfconsciously sincere. What emerges is a shorthand manual for living with kindness, decency, and generosity of spirit.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian

“A collection of inspiring insights from a wise technology writer . . . [a] wonderful collection of 450 useful aphorisms . . . fresh, inspiring, even exhilarating . . . The title really says it all. Buy more than one, or people will keep stealing it out of your bathroom.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“In this insightful entry, Kelly, a founding editor of Wired, collects pearls of wisdom for all stages of life . . . the entries are genuinely thought-provoking, and Kelly’s earnestness is leavened with refreshing humor. The result is an unapologetically upbeat offering.” —Publishers Weekly

“The non-linearity of this list is part of its magic. And one hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom.” —Seth Godin

“If you don’t find at least seventeen golden nuggets of advice from Kevin Kelly’s list, you’re not awake.” —Daniel Pink

“Life essentials from a skilled navigator in an uncertain time.” —Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes
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I was really looking forward to this, but unfortunately it’s not great as an audio book.

Difficult to listen to

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This book does not work as an audiobook, just a never ending series of short sentences, one after another, with no connection.

All great advice! So maybe listen to one a day, but I'm probably going to get it on my kobo

Not the right kind of book for audio

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Best to savour each nugget of wisdom that Kelly has to share, individually. The reader just blasts through them like you must eat the whole box before the elevator doors open. Keep your finger on the pause button. Slow they playback speed down. Stop and write them on the fridge whiteboard. I would love to get this as a big deck of cards instead. So many good ideas and rules to live by.

Like a box of premium chocolates

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Pseudo smart bullshit, kind of fun though but not realy worth the time. Don’t buy.

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