![]() ![]() ![]() As a middle-aged former wrestler-my sport and its lifestyle half a lifetime ago-I've needed four years to step back onto a mat to follow that craving for cooperative combat, to satisfy what I think is an instinct for battle and game, to activate those natural feel-good chemicals reactive to contact sports, and to keep alive that childhood dream of becoming anything at all like an orphan boy taken in by Shaolin monks. ![]() Others I stick with because the philosophy, meaning, or relevance to my life deserved the emotional investment: that was this book. Some books I listen to because their writing and style are exquisite art: that was not this book. Most of them I listen to while gardening, painting, or house-cleaning-even driving-the point being that I easily lose concentration unless a story gives me good reason to pay attention. I try a lot of audiobooks and finish fewer than half. ![]()
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