I'm doing 8 things
Book by the bestest, my most favoritest, multi-Booker Prize-winning author, J.M. Coetzee. I suppose if you haven’t read Elizabeth Costello yet you might start there, but I guess I won’t know if that’s for certain until I finish Slow Man. I’ve been hooked on Coetzee since I attended a reading of his, from Youth, a few years back. There’s not enough good to say—strange connections between life and language, vivid imagery, gloomy inspiration.
Joey's Life List
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1. Read more
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2. buy a bike
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3. learn how to talk to people
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4. Publish a paper
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5. Eat better
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6. listen more
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7. be more productive with my time
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8. landscape my yard
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How I did it
It made me
Yay! 
How I did it: I rethought what it meant for me to be happy and like myself. For me, being happy turned out to be more about just doing life rather than worrying about I should be doing it. It was easy once I stopped criticizing myself and just focused on trying to be good at whatever I was doing. Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I practiced. Practice was the most important part. I also took classes that were in some sense too hard for me, and tried not to give up. It was also important for me to learn how to read through or understand parts of the math without having to understand all of it. Read how I did it…
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