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Are You Serious?
- So seriousness isn’t some kind of final reward, a golden watch you earn for a lifetime of operating in bad faith. It is, instead, one of those basic practices you gotta do to prevent your life from disintegrating, like getting out of bed and taking a shower and talking to people. That’s because seriousness is the great Orderer of Priorities, and th... See more
from Surely You Can Be Serious by Adam Mastroianni
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- Seriousness precludes sincerity.
For the most part, you’d be better served by being sincere rather than serious.from Be Sincere—Not Serious
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Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake.
from The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
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- The difference between seriousness and sincerity is not how involved you are in the activities of your life, but in how tightly you grip. In fact, I would go even further still: Gripping less tightly can unlock better performance and with much less effort, as I’ve written about before. Simple activities, like playing catch, floating in a pool, or b... See more
from Be Sincere—Not Serious
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- Seriousness is like that: it allows you to hear the one important thing when the whole universe is screaming at you
from Surely You Can Be Serious by Adam Mastroianni
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The first lie: seriousness is all or nothing. I often run into people who are like: “Well, I don’t feel like I’m being truly serious and I’m not living up to my values, but I also can’t burn every bridge and change everything about my life, so I guess I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing, forever.”
But this is like believing that the only way to get
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Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake. In play, there are no stakes. No boundaries. No right or wrong. No quotas for productivity. It’s an uninhibited state where your spirit can run free.
from The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
As we grow older, the “serious” becomes a simulacrum for wisdom and even honor. Impoverished by the honor withheld from us in childhood, we become very willing participants in a kind of spiritual maturation that honors the profound and grave, even at the expense of the simple and beautiful. In fact, the path to wonder is not sophistication or intel
... See morefrom This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
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