Was reading that book about the brain (How emotions are made) and it started out super well and interesting. Got a new perspective on brain functioning and all, was really excited about it! But then it got repetitive and boring. Got though 3/4 of the book and I fear I won't finish it.

My mom then gave me Homo Deus (by the same guy how wrote Sapiens) and i feel kind of the same about it. There's some good ideas, but I feel a lot of it is stuff I've read 10 times over the internet already and the writing is infantile and not engaging. I'm almost 200 pages in, and am practically forcing myself to stick with it. Don't know if i'll make it.

I used to love reading and be unable to peel away from a good book. Maybe I'm just choosing my literature poorly lately, or my attention span is shit now. I'll try some fiction next, see if it makes a difference.

I've also been reading my friend's book - it's kind of a self-help thing, with weird actionnable advice like becoming a "smeller" and start smelling things because it's a sense we don't use much of these days. He lived some years in China, is a goofy super spontaneous dude. When i first met him, he played guitar upside-down on his head at a home concert he and his friends organized while living in Colombia for the winter. The book is not flawlessly written, feels like an old school blog post almost, but I can really hear his personality through it and it's been enjoyable. I'm not sure how interesting it would be to person that has never met the guy personally. And there is some real cool and funny insight from his life experiences: https://www.amazon.fr/Will-Light-You-Fire-Forever-ebook/dp/B086BJK368

Something about it not being written for the masses like those best-sellers, where every word gets reviewed by an editor gives it an amateur rawness that pulls me in more. What's this cooky man gonna come up with next? Unpredictable! That's what's fun.