Bec Lee
@bec_nicole
Bec Lee
so lately, i’ve been trying to re-learn. not to be good at things. not to master them. but to remember what it feels like to live inside my life without constantly asking it to justify itself. hobbies, i’m realizing, are less about skill and more about permission. permission to be a beginner again. permission to be mediocre. permission to fail... See more
adult hobbies worth trying
Drawing someone, capturing not so much their likeness but their spirit, is the stuff of infatuation; it took on a different energy with someone I’d known, and adored, for almost twenty years.
We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and... See more
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
This loss of agency over our own attention that many of us are experiencing is not about willpower. It’s about neuroscience:
yana yuhai • how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)
An adjective to describe the hero > An adjective to describe the bad guy, and… > A compelling goal we identify with as human beings
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
Here, there are three main kinds of villain: mirror villains (in which the villain and hero have similar abilities and backgrounds); foil villains (in which the villain’s strengths match the hero’s weaknesses); and villains, or antagonists, that evoke feelings of primal fear in the hero (such as the aliens from Aliens and the shark from Jaws).