Reclaim The Brain
My attention is shot. I’d like to have another go. Things about focus, the ruination of focus, ADHD, and paying attention.
Reclaim The Brain
I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.
Justin Murphy • On Idea Hoarding
This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
... See moreBill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
Intially created as a way to collect all of the things for my depression, anxiety, ADHD - and either I’ve been terrible at collecting things, or I am looking for the solution in a totally new and different area.
But boredom is when life happens.
Nick Catucci • You might just have to be bored
As a method, marginalia remind us that all annotation is allusive, that all literature is connected to everything else, that the reader influences the writer as surely as the other way around, and even if the later has been dead for centuries.
Ed Simon • Annotate This: On Marginalia
It is tempting, in moments of ambition, to think that we must change everything all at once, that the path to mastery or peace requires a sudden, dramatic shift. But this is rarely the case. In truth, most lasting changes come from small, deliberate actions. It is in the repetition of these small actions, over time, that we build strength, that we... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
Study Confirms That Viewing Art in a Museum is Much More Stimulating for the Brain
Regina Sienramymodernmet.com
If you do not deep read, you do not cultivate a capacity to think, imagine, and create; you therefore may not realize that anything more satisfying than a video game even exists.