India, The Bike Trip, The Book?! by Kyle

Reading just before bed so here’s my little stream of consciousness before I nod off.

This feels like a true Kyle of a book concept. All around you are enriched by your particular ability to digest and synthesise what you read and relate it to us, and this feels like taking that skill to its natural conclusion. As a fellow traveller, and without having read Botton’s book, I feel like I’ve already received the core of what that book might teach me. Not to say that there isn’t likely much more I could glean from reading the book itself, but the right idea at the right time is so much more effective than everything right now (makes me think of Ferriss’ move from reading ahead-of-time to just-in-time).

Creative work, and the communication of it, is a kind of filtering of the world as we perceive it. I’ve read and learned many things downstream of your prolific sifting/filtering of the world that I would not have had the capacity to discover alone. By reading these filtered outputs we get glimpses/tastes of a broader set of experience than we could consume individually and from there we can continue to pull on just the thread that feels like it has more for us.

I think knitting this directly and imminently into the sharing of a journey feels like a good fit. Where a lot of self-help shtuff is so prescriptive, this feels more humane, gives us more to engage with when inevitably some chapter (thinking book form) doesn’t grab us as much as another had.

As always, I love the frankness (and humour) of your writing, looking forward to the chapters to come!