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"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
David Foster Wallace • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Normally our minds are so abuzz with layers of dialogue, memories, fears and ruminations, that we barely notice we’re thinking at all. Our everyday experience is so saturated with ongoing idle thought that it essentially becomes invisible. We’re like David Foster Wallace’s proverbial goldfish—after an older fish asks him, “How’s the water today?” h... See more
David Cain • Where There's Stress, There's a Story
submit that this is what the real, no‑bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.6 Wallace’s p
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.