Be Sincere—Not Serious
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Be Sincere—Not Serious
We're looking to play with practices. Play doesn’t mean to treat it carelessly but play like how we play an instrument or a game where you're serious without being severe and sincere without being dogmatic. Ultimately this serious play is how we learn things, how we enjoy the process of living meaningfully without stressing about whether we get it ... See more
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When I say serious I
don’t
mean solemn and tedious.
I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or ano... See more
don’t
mean solemn and tedious.
I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or ano... See more
Visakan Veerasamy • Are You Serious?
Agalia Tan and added
sari and added
All things lead back to seriousness and sincerity. Sincerity, not in a moral sense. But in the sense of a true and genuine and pure desire to reach one’s goal. S: Most humans simply are not this way. M: Most humans like to play games. They are window-shoppers, band-wagon-jumpers, and fad-followers. Such is the effect of societal conditioning.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
when I feel stressed, anxious or drained by my work, it’s easy to forget to be sincere and to flip towards being too serious instead. In these moments, the stakes feel overwhelming. But there’s a way to lower them. The trick is simple: when you feel like your work is draining or overwhelming, try asking yourself, ‘How can I approach this with a lit
... See moreAli Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
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
Adam Mastroianni • Surely You Can Be Serious
Alex Dobrenko and added
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.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
gilles and added