{"id":458,"date":"2020-10-31T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=458"},"modified":"2020-11-08T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T12:26:04","slug":"wisdomofinsecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/wisdomofinsecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"WisdomOfInsecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished reading this <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Wisdom-Insecurity-Message-Age-Anxiety\/dp\/0712695885\/\">book<\/a> last night. To be honest, it has been hard to read and digest. Very hardcore philosophical for my level. To put things a bit on perspective, the book was written on 1954&#8230; and half way the book you realize that things he talks about are still pretty valid nowadays. Without noticing, he is taking a approach to Easter philosophy (Buddhism) in contrast to the Western one. We are very focus in the &#8220;I&#8221;, in the material world, etc. We try to get things defined as something static and we need that for security. Our brain is the one leading the shots but taking a different approach, accepting the insecurity (you can&#8217;t control everything, you can&#8217;t know everything) you can live a less stressful and meaningful life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, this is the typical book I should read 30 times to get really a full understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading this book last night. To be honest, it has been hard to read and digest. Very hardcore philosophical for my level. To put things a bit on perspective, the book was written on 1954&#8230; and half way the book you realize that things he talks about are still pretty valid nowadays. Without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/wisdomofinsecurity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WisdomOfInsecurity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}