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

Maybe the smartest thing about us isn’t inside our heads.

FOLLOW THE THREAD

Learning

We can learn how to govern ourselves.

LECTURE: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize Lecture, 2009

Learning

We know how to make a “we.”

BOOK: Why We Cooperate

Learning

We inherit what others learned.

BOOK: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter