Hi and welcome to the Annual Reuben Awards where I give you my top recommendations for 2023!
Here is everything that is mentioned in the podcast!
Best Non-Fiction No bad parts - Richard Schwartz Stolen focus - Johann Harri
Best Fantasy Lord of the silver boy (Troy) - David Gammel
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie Sci-Fi Speaker of the dead - Orsen Scott Wells
Best Comedy/enjoyable Book And away… - Bob Mortimer
First Person Singlular - Murakami Overal best Book First Person Singlular - Murakami No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz
Best Podcast Sam Harris Waking UpHey riddle riddle
Best film: Letterboxd
Everything Everywhere All At Once Top Gun Maverick
The Last Duel
CODA
The King
Best documentary Stutz
Tim’s Vermeer
The Making of Arcane
Series: Severance Arcane
Cheer
Best album:
Low Island - If You could have it all again
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Best video:
Guy knocking down dominos
https://twitter.com/OnlyZans/status/1569416356839280640
Best idea or concept Top Idea in Your Mind Taking action Triangle of life
Best purchase Blackout eye mask
Most important change in my life Switching departments at work
Taking action
Top idea in your mind
Favourite fact Griezman having 3 separate kids born on the same day
NASA mission controllers for the Apollo mission - their average age was 21 when the mission started and when they did the impossible they were an average of 28
Favourite quote FEEL THE FEAR...AND DO IT ANYWAY
Often we think, 'I'll do it when I am not so afraid.' But in reality, it works the other way round. The 'doing it' comes before the fear goes away. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.
The Five Truths about Fear
- The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.
- The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it!
- The only way to feel better about myself is to go out... and do it!
- Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I am on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.
- Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from feeling helplessness.
- I'll Handle It! ---- Susan Jeffers
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters Written by Portia Nelson
‘Be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want to think about.’ - Paul Graham
‘Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends’ - George Bernard Shaw
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Attributed to Rabindranath Tagore
‘It is perfectly human to be afraid and, while afraid, that one is still obliged to live one’s life and to undertake one’s journey.’ (Hollis, 1994 p. 90)
Robert Hilleger says, ‘Shame started as a two-person experience, But as I got older I learned to do shame all by myself.”