living at the wrong pace
I think often of Toni Morrison’s views on “writer’s block” and how it’s so antithetical to everything we’re taught. For Morrison, writer’s block isn’t something to be pushed or worked through. It’s a message that we’re not meant to be writing right now; and that that’s okay.
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Gloria Alamrewsubstack.comThe faster things go, the more immersed we are in the flow, addicted to the speed, unwilling to grapple with the slowness of the real world around us, the more we forget to feed the part of ourselves that likes quiet, that can live in quiet. That deprivation makes itself felt in the body as a kind of dread.
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
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We are drowning in a river of short-form video. Where the allure isn’t even the content but the abundance, the infinitude of the flow. As the cultural conversation is dominated by what is fast and loud and immediately engaging, because those are the qualities screens reward, we lose the capacity to think in paragraphs, to think hard about the same... See more