{"id":522,"date":"2021-08-07T10:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:59:26","slug":"one-book-you-must-not-miss-out-on-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"One book you MUST not miss out on reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been out of touch with my reading habit (or maybe all good habits in general, courtesy: pathetic work-life balance) for as long as I can remember. I slipped from being a person who read a book a week to not being able to finish a book, and trust me, it hurts to become aware of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was gifted a copy of Ikigai, on my 24th birthday, I was elated! Back then, I was an international student living in Brighton, United Kingdom and trying to save every penny because I couldn&#8217;t get over currency conversion in my head (Hey! It&#8217;s real.) Because I wasn&#8217;t buying books, getting one gifted seemed like the perfect opportunity to restart and truth be told, I picked it up 5 times that year, only to stop at 2 pages. I still haven&#8217;t finished it, I will soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeedrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Show-your-work-edited.jpeg?resize=338%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" width=\"338\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeedrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Show-your-work-edited.jpeg?w=729&amp;ssl=1 729w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeedrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Show-your-work-edited.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption>My favorite wall for book cover pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago when I decided to rebuild my reading habit (thanks to random Youtube strolling), I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hv1gOEY3cs4&amp;t=218s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Ali Abdaal&#8217;s brilliant video<\/em><\/a> on books that changed his life! That&#8217;s where I came across this book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is brutally honest, extremely funny and super duper useful for anyone who is looking to build a space online, starting a business, is looking to bring out their creative side to the world, or simply just looking for rebuilding lost self- confidence. My reason to pick it up was simply to add one more finished read to my list (it&#8217;s a short book), but it has definitely become one that I will buy a physical copy of, gift to as many people as I can and re-read multiple times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite thing about this book is that reading it makes you feel like: YOU&#8217;VE GOT THIS! Because sometimes, we become deaf to our own voices telling us, we&#8217;ve got this and we need some validation. Let that validation not come from outside you, from people who might not really care about you. Let that validation come from a more confident you, the YOU who&#8217;s got this! That&#8217;s what this book did for me, I hope it does the same for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really hard to pick a favourite line from this one because I loved so many lines, so here&#8217;s one of the many:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The worst troll is the one that lives in your head. <\/p><cite>Austin Kleon, Show Your Work, Page 75<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am going to try to defeat the trolls in my head, thanks to the learnings from this book. What about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/austinkleon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Austin&#8217;s blog<\/em><\/a>, you should totally check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@christinhumephoto?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Christin Hume<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been out of touch with my reading habit (or maybe all good habits in general, courtesy: pathetic work-life balance) for as long as I can remember. I slipped from being a person who read a book a week to not being able to finish a book, and trust me, it hurts to become aware of that. When I was gifted a copy of Ikigai, on my 24th birthday, I was elated! Back then, I was an international student living in Brighton, United Kingdom and trying to save every penny because I couldn&#8217;t get over currency conversion in my head (Hey! It&#8217;s real.) Because I wasn&#8217;t buying books, getting one gifted seemed like the perfect opportunity to restart and truth be told, I picked it up 5 times that year, only to stop at 2 pages. I still haven&#8217;t finished it, I will soon. A few weeks ago when I decided to rebuild my reading habit (thanks to random Youtube strolling), I came across Ali Abdaal&#8217;s brilliant video on books that changed his life! That&#8217;s where I came across this book! This book is brutally honest, extremely funny and super duper useful for anyone who is looking to build a space online, starting a business, is looking to bring out their creative side to the world, or simply just looking for rebuilding lost self- confidence. My reason to pick it up was simply to add one more finished read to my list (it&#8217;s a short book), but it has definitely become one that I will buy a physical copy of, gift to as many people as I can and re-read multiple times. My favorite thing about this book is that reading it makes you feel like: YOU&#8217;VE GOT THIS! Because sometimes, we become deaf to our own voices telling us, we&#8217;ve got this and we need some validation. Let that validation not come from outside you, from people who might not really care about you. Let that validation come from a more confident you, the YOU who&#8217;s got this! That&#8217;s what this book did for me, I hope it does the same for you. It&#8217;s really hard to pick a favourite line from this one because I loved so many lines, so here&#8217;s one of the many: The worst troll is the one that lives in your head. Austin Kleon, Show Your Work, Page 75 I am going to try to defeat the trolls in my head, thanks to the learnings from this book. What about you? P.S. This is Austin&#8217;s blog, you should totally check it out! Photo by\u00a0Christin Hume\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeedrafts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/christin-hume-k2Kcwkandwg-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeedrafts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}