Journaling
I bounce back and forth between being a seasonal and daily journal writer.
Journaling
I bounce back and forth between being a seasonal and daily journal writer.
In systematising the arrangement of information, Erasmus’s common-place – just as merchants’ ledgers had revolutionised finance – turned the notebook into information technology, a piece of hardware in which data could be stored, categorised and retrieved as necessary.
The basic principle was simple: when you found a piece of writing that you liked, or found useful, you copied it out into your personal notebook.
You want to try something new, but you worry you’ll be bad at it—you fear you’ll humiliate yourself—and so you never start. But I knew that a fear-driven life was one where I never made plans, where I stopped myself from dreaming ambitiously. It meant living safe and small, always hedging against the worst-case scenario. Instead, I wanted to live
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