Hi and welcome to the Annual Reuben Awards where I give you my top recommendations for 2023!

Here is everything that is mentioned in the podcast!

Best Non-Fiction
No bad parts - Richard Schwartz
Stolen focus - Johann Harri


Best Fantasy
Lord of the silver boy (Troy) - David Gammel
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

Sci-Fi Speaker of the dead - Orsen Scott Wells


Best Comedy/enjoyable Book
And away… - Bob Mortimer
First Person Singlular - Murakami


Overal best Book
First Person Singlular - Murakami
No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz


Best Podcast
Sam Harris Waking Up
Hey riddle riddle


Best film: Letterboxd
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Top Gun Maverick
The Last Duel
CODA
The King

Best documentary
Stutz
Tim’s Vermeer
The Making of Arcane

Series:
Severance
Arcane
Cheer


Best album:
Low Island - If You could have it all again
Khruangbin - Mordechai

Best video:
Guy knocking down dominos
https://twitter.com/OnlyZans/status/1569416356839280640

Best idea or concept
Top Idea in Your Mind
Taking action Triangle of life

Best purchase
Blackout eye mask

Most important change in my life
Switching departments at work
Taking action
Top idea in your mind

Favourite fact
Griezman having 3 separate kids born on the same day

NASA mission controllers for the Apollo mission - their average age was 21 when the mission started and when they did the impossible they were an average of 28


Favourite quote
FEEL THE FEAR...AND DO IT ANYWAY
Often we think, 'I'll do it when I am not so afraid.' But in reality, it works the other way round. The 'doing it' comes before the fear goes away. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.

The Five Truths about Fear

1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.
2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it!
3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out... and do it!
4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I am on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.
5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from feeling helplessness.
6. I'll Handle It! ---- Susan Jeffers

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters Written by Portia Nelson

‘Be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want to think about.’ - Paul Graham

‘Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends’ - George Bernard Shaw

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Attributed to Rabindranath Tagore

‘It is perfectly human to be afraid and, while afraid, that one is still obliged to live one’s life and to undertake one’s journey.’ (Hollis, 1994 p. 90)

Robert Hilleger says, ‘Shame started as a two-person experience, But as I got older I learned to do shame all by myself.”