Inutile / vide fertile / patience

The Law of Reversed Effort

There is a Zen parable that I absolutely love:

A martial arts student approaches his teacher and asks, "How long will it take me to master this craft?"

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The teacher replies, "10 years."

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The student, looking impatient, responds, "I want to master it faster

than that. I will work harder than anyone else. I will push myself to

On perd des années en n’étant pas capable de perdre des heures

Amos Tversky

“Si j’ajoute de plus en plus de choses à faire dans ma vie, inévitablement, il y a de moins en moins de vie dans les choses à faire.”

Thomas d’Asembourg

Nous ne sommes pas que des meneurs mais aussi des promeneurs

3 Ways to Make the Most of Uncertain Times

Losing a job, taking on a new challenge, preparing to launch a project, moving to a new country – these transitions create what anthropologists call “liminal spaces” – the fertile but uncomfortable in-betweens where transformation happens.

Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity

Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I'm sorry I did. All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?

-Bob Dylan