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Opinion | The Household Chores You’re Avoiding Are Key to a Deeper Life
Yet the modern discipline known as time management—like its hipper cousin, productivity—is a depressingly narrow-minded affair, focused on how to crank through as many work tasks as possible, or on devising the perfect morning routine, or on cooking all your dinners for the week in one big batch on Sundays. These things matter to some extent, no do
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
But here’s the thing: When I do actually find a rare bit of “me” time, I often don’t know what to do with it. I’ve been drowning so long and so deep in my own mental labor, I don’t even know who I am when I stumble upon a life preserver.
In order to figure out what we want to do with our precious time and energy, we have to figure out who we are an... See more
In order to figure out what we want to do with our precious time and energy, we have to figure out who we are an... See more
When you do your tasks in the right way, they liberate your life energy so that you can attend to what really matters—the investigation, realization, and embodiment of true freedom. Do you even know what this means? Have you devoted yourself to finding out the deepest truth of your own existence? If, in this very moment, your tasks are not supporti
... See moreDavid Deida • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of liber... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Work of Art
The other day, while tidying up the living room, I caught myself draping a magenta muslin cloth across my wool lilac pouf as if I were styling it for a photograph. The colors and textures were striking together; the scene gave me a tiny rush. But right behind the rush came a flash of embarrassment. The cloth wasn’t supposed to be “aesthetic,” or se
... See moreThere is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting our troubles with time are somehow all in the
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