Essential Life Skills
Face the Essential Truths through Walden
Theme-by-theme chapter breakdowns of the essential life skills in this classic work. 6 deep dives tracing how Henry David Thoreau's story teaches skills you can use today.
Deliberate Living
Move in on the Fourth of July with him: unfinished boards, a morning bath, and the sentence about fronting only the essential facts.
Simplifying What You Actually Need
Watch Economy sort necessities from comforts from luxuries, then see which ones Concord has been paying for without choosing.
Attention as Practice
Sit the doorway from sunrise to noon, then sound the pond in winter: the deepest point is where the longest line meets the widest.
Reading Hidden Systems
See the railroad laid on men, the Mill-dam news, and ice cut for Calcutta, then ask who the routine is using.
Voluntary Simplicity
Add the house at twenty-eight dollars and twelve and a half cents, then watch John Field work himself poorer for tea and meat Thoreau has already dropped.
Following Your Own Direction
Leave the woods when the experiment is done, and hear the different drummer: the pace was never yours unless you checked.