iii. What is it like to be human today?
What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
“Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies.”
Farnam Street - Shane Parrish
Uncover the truth, don’t trust what you think and say, look for the artifacts of your actions, of how you spent your time.
“If you don't move with the land, the land will move you.”
From Sandtalk
As Parrish shows, we may imagine we are the protagonists in the story of our lives. But the sad truth is, most of us run on autopilot. Our behavioral defaults, groomed by biology, evolution, and culture, are primed to run the show for us if we don’t intervene. At our worst, we react to events without reasoning, not even realizing that we’ve missed ... See more
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
Good summation of modern existence. We think we’re protagonists and authors, we’re really spectators and flotsam carried by our conditioning
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