Revisit

The whole waiting until we get over the frictional ickiness that we have with offering something to the world or not having the perfect words for it – that was definitely a block for me. But it's just delaying the delivery of our gifts and our potential to the world. Like, you are good to go. You are ready. There won’t be a perfect moment or perfec... See more

Either way, it would feel obvious that getting aggressive or frustrated towards them for not paying attention wouldn’t be the best strategy in bringing them back to the moment, so why do we try that on ourselves?

You need to make what you conceive of if you want to move forward in any meaningful way. All of those messages you thought about sending to your friends, all of the essays you loosely intended to write, all of the calls you meant to make your parents, or the projects at work you thought about pitching—none of that matters. Because none of it exists... See more

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because t

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