A million miles in a thousand years
Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie. Years after writing his best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another. But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.
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What Hacker News says
- Three books that really stood out for me last year were:-
1. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1999475.A_Million_Miles_...)
2. The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banyan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door)
3. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-brai...)
There are still like 4 weeks left until 2022 ends, and am hoping to finish more books. Wish me luck! :D
- Blue Like Jazz
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128223578/save-blue-lik...
This is a far cry from 2 mil but they did get it made. I do believe they had one backer, before kickstarter, that was in for 500k and match whatever Kickstarter brought in. I donated 100 bucks after kickstart, so they got more funding not shown on kickstarter, and got a t-shirt and my name in the credits (along with several thousand others).
The movie wasn't great but the book that it is extremely loosely based on is good. Donald Miller wrote A Million Miles in a Thousand Years while writing the movie version of Blue Like Jazz. That book is even better.
- I'm not sure how to tell you how to give back but I have a couple of suggestions that might help you figure it out on your own:
Love Does by Bob Goff - http://bobgoff.com/love-does/
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Miles_in_a_Thousand_...
I just recently finished both of these and found them incredibly fun and inspiring. And contrary to what some of the posts on this thread seems to be saying, I think giving is one of the best ways to improve your life.
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