Thoughts

Things that make me go hmmmm

800 page novels, 3.5 hour blockbuster movies, 4+ hour podcasts… Not to mention homesteading social media accounts with millions (and millions) of followers, slow food journaling version 2.4 promoting sourdough bread-making, old-school pickling and marmalade making — what’s going on?

Are we experiencing a new and evolved slow revolution? Is this the... See more

Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age

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Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.

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And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.

As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when

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It seems odd to look at achievement through this lens, not as the thing the newspapers tell us it is, but – very often – as a species of mental illness. Those who put up the skyscrapers, write the bestselling books, perform on stage, or make partner may, in fact, be the unwell ones. Whereas the characters who – without agony – can bear an ordinary... See more

The School of Life • Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional

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