BBC Radio 4 is celebrating the New Year with a marathon ten-hour dramatisation of Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace. As part of the festivities, I’ve written an article for the BBC on seven lessons we can learn from the life of the bearded sage for the art of living in 2015. Read the article here, which is based on my book The Wonderbox (published in the US as How Should We Live?). But if you want a quick taster of his top tips for a happy life:
1.Keep an open mind
2.Practice empathy
3.Make a difference
4.Master the art of simple living
5.Beware your contradictions
6.Become a craftsman
7.Expand your social circle
And here’s a wonderful short video clip showing Tolstoy himself putting some of the above into practice:
Happy New Year, Roman
I was helping a friend prepare a draft for a book on Malcolm Muggeridge on a memorable day when I came across his article on Tolstoy – The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, prompting me to look further:
http://www.p-ced.com/1/node/40
Good stuff, Roman. I’ll bookmark this page and look for your next entries, thanks. The font could be easier to read for my aging eyes, were it a darker hue than the grey.