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He didn’t write one, but here’s his advice on living. What do you think?

If I were to write a self-awareness/self-help book along these lines all I would write is “Don’t read this book. Stop planning and making excuses. Drop everything, travel somewhere remote, and for a full month do four things:
1. Live without real social interaction.
2. Live in nature and don’t do any work that a caveman wouldn’t do.
3. Spend most of your days without media (books, music, etc). Spend your time moving from A to B on your own accord (not as a passenger) by foot, skis, bike, motorcycle, car, whatever. The more exposed you can be to the elements the better.
4. Once a week, put yourself in a situation where only your own determination will allow you to live to see the sun rise again.”

What this does is basically what monks try to achieve; it erases all contemporary social misdirection, peels false layers of yourself off in order to understand who you are, helps you focus on what is important, and clarifies what living means.