November 15, 2024

Learning

Is anxiety causing you to procrastinate? Channel that energy into something else that needs to be done.

Miranda July in The Future, 2011, Director Miranda July, Director of Photography Nikolai von Graevenitz

Miranda July in The Future, 2011, Director Miranda July, Director of Photography Nikolai von Graevenitz

Miranda July in The Future, 2011, Director Miranda July, Director of Photography Nikolai von Graevenitz

"It’s best to procrastinate with other things I don’t want to do. The amount of business emails and household chores I’ve gotten done while not writing! The best part of this is that when you finally do get down to writing, and then eventually stop for the day, you discover that the bills have been magically paid, the floors washed…" - Miranda July

Article: Six Writers on Procrastination

Learning

Equanimity is something you do, not something you have; it is a lived way of moving through the world.

ARTICLE: Equanimity is Not Stillness – It is a Mobility of the Mind

Learning

"The society capable of continuous renewal not only is oriented toward the future but looks ahead with some confidence."

BOOK: Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society

Learning

A simple way to improve at something is to imitate someone more skilled than you.

ARTICLE: How to Be Instantly Better at Things

Learning

Joy is resistance

ESSAY: Finding Joy in Dark Times