Intentionality
“Intentionality…is about the connection between what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.” - Malcom Ocean
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Intentionality
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
The Notebook Rule
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been fault-testing something I’m going to call The Notebook Rule.
It goes like this:
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been fault-testing something I’m going to call The Notebook Rule.
It goes like this:
Before any interaction with a screen, I write down, in a notebook, what I intend to do. Then, as soon as I’m done doing that thing, I walk away (close the laptop, put the phone down, literally walk away, etc).
J.E. Petersen • The Notebook Rule
intention> attention
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want. ... Doing what you were born to do ... That’s the way to be happy.
Maria Popova • Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.
Dr. Steven Brownlowtwitter.comIf you don’t have a good handle on what you want, or even worse, you don’t actually consult it, you could make decisions which are not really in your interests.
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