how to stop living your life on autopilot
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how to stop living your life on autopilot
Reading, in addition to listening, eating, and most physical activities, can be experienced like driving: we can participate either on autopilot or with focused intention. So often we sleepwalk through our lives. Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landin
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
our instinct is to rush through anything that doesn’t feel instantly meaningful. the second a moment feels slow, we distract ourselves. we pick up our phone, start planning the next thing, or tell ourselves the real day will begin once we’re being productive again. but some of the most quietly meaningful moments don’t announce themselves. they need... See more
We spend much of our day on autopilot—not giving much thought to what we’re doing with our time. This is a problem.