Abby Hoffer
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Abby Hoffer
How holidays feel across hemispheres
“New Year’s is the holiday that feels especially different,” she told me. “In the North, it’s dark, it’s cold. You’re inside. It’s quiet. So, the New Year is more meditative, contemplative…and it emphasizes the closing of the year. There’s a stronger sense of reflection and looking back on the year, rather than
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Framing Days as a Collection of Hours
If you set aside 1 hour per day to dedicate to a topic of interest, how would your life change? “A day” feels long, lots of time to fill, that often if I know I have a day to do something, I struggle to get around to it. But if I have 1 hour, per day, for a month, to “do the thing”… imagine how much better of a
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We have an endless amount of information and games at our fingertips, but it’s rotting our brains.
We need to soak in more idle time. No scrolling, music, podcasts, or audiobooks. Try it, even for a few minutes.
Notice how relaxed and grounded you feel when you simply observe and think?
We really don’t know how to stop and smell the roses anymore.... See more
We need to soak in more idle time. No scrolling, music, podcasts, or audiobooks. Try it, even for a few minutes.
Notice how relaxed and grounded you feel when you simply observe and think?
We really don’t know how to stop and smell the roses anymore.... See more
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Books that capture that feeling of simplicity and minimalism:
the lost estate by henri alain-fournier: this novel explores the simplicity and nostalgia of childhood and lost paradise, capturing the essence of minimalistic living through its depiction of a serene and idyllic rural life.
a room with a view by e.m. forster: the story focuses on personal
... See morewhat if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.com“The Void”
An intentional period of time per day that you are scree-free. When you enter the void, you are allowing yourself to be bored, your mind to wander, to enter flow state. It may be uncomfortable at first, but over time, becomes a reprieve. It is therapeutic, cathartic, resetting. You come out of it feeling fresher and more alive.
