Anna Morgan
@annagrace
Anna Morgan
Culture often precedes politics: the stories that artists tell reshape the moral landscape within which politicians and the powerful must operate. Culture is upstream from politics.
Sublime is an ethos-driven company.
Here is what we believe:
Intention > Attention
The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.
We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no
If time is slipping through your fingers, the answer isn’t to mourn childhood - it’s to reawaken the part of you that paid attention.
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
The brain is a master at efficiency. When an experience is repeated often enough, the brain stops storing the details. The first time you drove to work, you noticed everything - the street names, the trees, the way the morning light spilled across the pavement. But after the hundredth time, it became a blur. You arrive without even remembering the... See more
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
This is the proportional theory of time perception - as we age, each unit of time represents a smaller percentage of our lived experience, creating an illusion of acceleration.
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
But as we age, life becomes patterned. The brain, in its efficiency, stops recording the mundane. The same commute, the same daily routine, the same predictable rhythms - it all blends into a blur. Novelty fades, and with it, our perception of time expands
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
New things help us feel young again
As kids, the world was new. Our brains were constantly absorbing - cataloging details, imprinting sensations, locking in memories with high fidelity. Every trip to the grocery store, every walk home from school, every sleepover with friends - it all carried weight.
why time felt slower when we were kids (and how to get it back)
Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
i want to teach this to others
But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
I love this and I have felt this feeling much more recently - pole, dancing at home like when I was a kid pretending to be in music videos, moving my body the way I want to and wearing clothes that help me show my highest self