Kitabı oxu: «How to Live Like Your Cat»
Copyright
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate 2017
Copyright © Stéphane Garnier 2017
English translation © Roland Glasser
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Cover design by Heike Schüssler
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Source ISBN: 9780008276775
Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008276782
Version: 2018-09-10
Dedication
To Ziggy,
my cat
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Your Friend, the Cat
Your Cat Is Free
Your Cat Is Charismatic
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Is Calm (Most of the Time)
Your Cat Knows How to Assert Itself
Your Cat Is Wise
Your Cat Thinks About Itself First
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Accepts Itself as It Is, Your Cat Loves Itself
Your Cat Has a Certain Swagger, Your Cat Is Proud
Your Cat Is the Centre of Attention
Your Cat Is Impenetrable to Judgement
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Is Curious by Nature
Your Cat Is In-de-pen-dent
Cat Secrets
Your Cat Brims with Self-Confidence
Your Cat Knows How to Delegate
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Knows How to Take the Time to Live
Your Cat Adapts to Everything Quickly
Your Cat Loves Calm
Your Cat Chooses Its Own Company
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Knows How to Rest, It Loves to Sleep
Your Cat Knows When to Say No (and Readily Does So)
Your Cat Knows How to Avoid Conflict (as Much as Possible)
Your Cat Adores Its Home, and Marks Out Its Territory
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Trusts You
Your Cat Is a Natural Boss
Cat Secrets
Your Cat Is Tenacious
Your Cat Is Always Cautious
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Has a Huge Need for Love
Your Cat Is Serene by Nature
Your Cat Knows What It Wants, and Is Direct About It
Your Cat Dares to Ask (All the Time)
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Is Always Honest
Your Cat Is Silent and Observant
Your Cat Is a Sincere Friend
Your Cat Focuses on the Essential
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Always Remains Natural
Your Cat Is Humble and Indulgent
Cat Secrets
Your Cat Knows How to See the Fun in Everything
Your Cat Is Beautiful … and Knows It
Your Cat’s Day
Your Cat Is at Ease in All Situations
Your Cat Shows Empathy
Live Like a Cat
Your Cat Always Has the Last Word
Test: Assess Your Cat Quotient (CQ)
Results of the Cat Quotient Test
About the Author
About the Publisher
Foreword
Some days, you don’t feel like going to work, watching the news, taking every catastrophe to heart or even caring about your own future. You don’t feel like having an opinion on the government’s latest reforms which make you gnash your teeth, any more than you feel like worrying over your career trajectory, or knowing if you’ll have much of a pension by the time you retire.
You don’t want to be constantly plagued by your own personal problems, which are themselves linked to those of your family and friends, and you don’t want to fret about the quality of your diet, or feel guilty for ‘destroying the planet’ every time you draw a bath.
You long to switch off and unplug from it all, just for a day, just for a moment, and breathe.
I look round to see that Ziggy, my cat, has padded silently into my study. He stares at me, blinking, then leaps onto my desk and lies down on the keyboard. It’s a little ritual that we’ve had for years now, stretching back to when I still did much of my writing in longhand and he used to bite the cap of my pen. It makes me laugh, this game we play. It’s as if on the one hand he loves that I write, but on the other hand he does all he can to prevent me writing.
Up until this moment, I considered his soft pawing at me, his comings and goings between my lap and the keyboard, to be nothing more than affectionate games. But perhaps he’s been trying to tell me something else all these years, something as simple as: ‘Hey, don’t you feel like downing tools for the day?’
Down tools. As he nuzzles his nose into my neck, I realise that, today, I don’t care if I’ll be able to pay the bills, or whether the stock market is about to crash. After all, does he care?
Maybe this is the secret he’s been wanting to communicate all this time: know how to let go, focus on the essentials, think about your wellbeing, be like him. Live like your cat!
Cats clearly live much better than we do. So why not follow their example?
This I did, by decoding how they operate, their aspirations and lifestyle. It had been there right in front of me, all these years, without me realising.
We have everything to learn from cats, in both our personal and our professional lives.
I invite you to discover their simple secrets, so you can take a step back from your everyday, find your wellbeing again, and smile.
But what do cats do right? How should we take inspiration from them?
From this day forward, imagine another way of viewing life, by living like your cat.
Pulsuz fraqment bitdi.
