slowing down
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On Doing Nothing
The text advocates for the value of idleness and leisure, arguing that doing nothing can be spiritually enriching and beneficial for mental health, contrasting it with the harms of constant activity and productivity.
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obsessionally attached, non self-aware mind-wandering with no interrupt mechanisms (Ctrl-Z for you programmers), is bad.
Venkatesh Rao • Make Your Own Rules
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i.e. doom spiraling
Our default waking mode (and also during dreaming phases of sleep) is not a brain at rest, but what is known as mind wandering.
Venkatesh Rao • Make Your Own Rules
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Task-negative cognition on the other hand, is what your brain does when there is nothing in particular it has to do; when the situation has no demanding urgencies to attend to
Venkatesh Rao • Make Your Own Rules
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the default mode network
Boredom is the opposite of anxiety.
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No one is expecting you to be a great dancer at your wedding. No one is expecting your first business to be a billion dollar behemoth. No one is expecting you to be a great writer after your first article. No one, except your ego.
Zac Solomon • Freedom in Obscurity
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“While most of us are led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory.”
The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.47
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