Notes on a Nervous Planet: Matt Haig

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Try it again. Deep breath in. Deep breath out. If you feel just a wee bit better now, then I have no doubt you’ll feel a whole lot better after reading this book.

A personal favourite and the best reminder during the summer season… or any season, as a matter of fact.”–Meghan Markle, for British Vogue on “A Note from the Beach” from Notes On A Nervous Planet

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I woke up and clasped my phone, and prayed that whatever I could find there could take me out of myself. And it doesn’t take too much looking to see the warning signs of a breakdown not just inside our selves, but in the wider world. It might sound dramatic to say the planet could be heading for a breakdown. But we do know beyond doubt that in all kinds of ways – technologically, environmentally, politically – the world is changing. And fast. So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down. but presented together like this, your book beats against the shores of repetition to an irritating degree and adds nothing new to the current discussion about how to merge our physical reality with our online existence. and personal anecdotes, no matter how relatable, are a poor substitute for scientific research. Haig was born in Sheffield, England, in 1975. He studied English at the University of York and then worked as a journalist for several years. His first novel, The Radleys, was published in 2010. It was followed by The Humans (2013) and How To Stop Time (2017).

I read this because I have been anxious as hell (gosh I wonder why?) and a glance at the early chapter on goalposts (with their tendency to keep moving) felt helpful. But oh boy, did the warning bells start ringing early -- building to Kill Bill level sirens.

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Okay! Here we go. This is July. The UK tour for Notes on a Nervous Planet. Including the launch in London on July 3rd - my birthday - at the Southbank Centre. Be wonderful to meet you at one of these.

Note on a Nervous Planet แด่เธอบนดาวเคราะห์ช่างกังวล จะบอกคุณว่าสิ่งเหล่านั้นอาจไม่ได้เป็นอย่างที่คุณคิด I began to feel worse. And many of the "distractions" were doing nothing but driving me further to distraction. In T. S. Eliot's phrase from his Four Quartets, I was "distracted from distraction by distraction."Amazing and utterly beautiful, The Midnight Library is everything you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt Haig" Joanna Cannon Take Notes On A Nervous Planet twice daily, with or without food. The book is crammed with wisdom, insight, love and wit. Stephen Fry

Time – especially the feeling of not having enough of it – is one of the major stressors of modern life. With life-expectancy doubling over the past century, and time-saving technology at our disposal, we should have more of it than ever. The problem is that we also have more of everything else. Specifically, we have more work. Reframe your idea of beauty. Be a rebel against marketing. Look forward to being a wise elder. Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true." Un libro cargado de agudeza, frescura y empatía que nos ilumina en un mundo cada vez más cambiante y contradictorio. I love the section about time in this book because a huge part of my anxiety is never feeling like I have enough time to do all the things I want to do, and never feeling present in the moment because I’m always planning things for the future and thinking about the future. This quote really speaks to me:I had already written about my mental health in Reasons to Stay Alive. But the question now was not: why should I stay alive? The question this time was a broader one: how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad? You haven't looked up from your phone in over an hour. You're just walking around, banging into furniture."