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Ivaylo Durmonski

I’m a voracious reader, librarian, and writer obsessed with helping people transition from passive online consumers to active mindful go-getters with a sense of purpose. Subscribe to my newsletter Farview and join over 4,500 readers.

Priorities for 2025? Getting good at boring.

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Farview #025 Jan 15th, 2025 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. How many of you have started the new year with a list of things you want to change? Or a list of things you ought to get? What are you planning to buy/do/change? One thing? A hundred? What if you don't need to add new things to your already busy schedule, but simply keep doing the things you're already doing? That was my resolution after my notebook...
How about an exercise in not doing?

Farview #024

Farview #024 Dec 11th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. How about an exercise in not doing? What are you going to stop doing to start doing something else? Because there is a not so obvious cost involved in doing something new - it's not doing something current. We talk endlessly about bettering our lives. About unlocking our best version. And as you can imagine, this requires time. But in the age of...
Crafting prompts you help you stay committed to your long-term goals.

Farview #023

Farview #023 Nov 27th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. We are bombarded by an endless stream of incentives to buy, to consume. Oh, you need to watch this 12-second clip of a cat dramatically flinging itself at a chair. It's sooo funny. Your soul will remain hollow until you witness Mr. Whiskers miss his target by an inch but still lands on his feet. Oh, what? You haven't yet binged The New Big Show That's...
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Farview #022

Farview #022 Nov 13th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. At what point does piling up resources to read/watch becomes a problem? As modern people, it's common to proactively scroll through the online abyss for new sources of information. We imagine that the next groundbreaking idea is just a click away. Thus, we subscribe to more newsletters, more YouTube channels, bookmark more sites, and order more books....
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Farview #021

Farview #021 Oct 23rd, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. We tend to imagine that in order to move to a better life, we need to have an appetite for relentless self-improvement. An undying drive for accomplishment. But based on my personal experience, I think that the ability to finally summon enough willpower to get up and start fixing the part of your life that sucks is none other than continuous struggle....
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Farview #020

Farview #020 Oct 2nd, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. The worst thing about having empathy is that you start to notice how many people don't have any of it. For instance... You are great at listening to what other people have to say. You make other people feel comfortable talking about their problems. You avoid bringing certain topics into the discussion because you know that they are inappropriate in the...

Farview #019

Farview #019 Sep 18th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. What distracts you from the bigger picture? Well, to answer this question, we first need to have an established bigger picture. But say that you have one. You do know what you should focus on. If this is the case, can you tell us what distracts you from materializing your ambitious goal? This can be something easily identifiable as a lack of money,...
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Farview #018 Sep 4th, 2024 by Ivaylo Durmonski (from durmonski.com) A newsletter fostering long-term thinking in a world driven by impatience. To read ten books, or to read one book ten times? Of course, in our consumer-driven society, more sounds better. More books, presumably, equals more knowledge. And more knowledge can, or at least it should, translate into more money. If you're a newbie in the world of literature. Focusing on digesting more books is probably better. It's a great way to...

I’m a voracious reader, librarian, and writer obsessed with helping people transition from passive online consumers to active mindful go-getters with a sense of purpose. Subscribe to my newsletter Farview and join over 4,500 readers.