Harriet
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Harriet
Presence isn’t something we find, it’s something we return to. And when you return to presence, you return to yourself.
yana yuhai • how to find magic in the ordinary (the neuroscience of whimsy)
“Listening without prejudice is how we grow and learn as people. More often than not, there are no right answers, just different perspectives.” (P.112)
[ Takeaway: p.112, Listening - The Creative Act: Rick Rubin ]
Self Awareness and
Children, especially younger ones, spend far less time in this state because both the DMN and the prefrontal cortex that helps regulate it are still developing. These systems support self-reflection, long-term planning, and abstract thinking.In other words, kids are naturally more anchored in real-time sensory experience.
yana yuhai • how to find magic in the ordinary (the neuroscience of whimsy)
Sensemaking and Staying curious & learning
Children have no choice but to be present, and hence, look through the eyes of the innocent and everything feels new.
Work that feels considered, confident in its pace, and coherent in its thinking carries a different kind of authority.
Zoë Yasemin • Article
Trust the process. Let your values be carried through in your work. It will reach the right people.
To search is to inherit a worldview. If your archive begins with a search bar, your work begins with someone else’s bias.
The Reference Trap
Being an artist is not strictly definitive to those who are conventionally seen as “creative” - it is more so an attitude, a “how” when it comes to interact with the world.
... See more“To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention. Refining our sensitivity to tune in to the more subtle notes. Looking
Selective presence is not disappearing. It is confidence. It is self trust. It is identity that stands on its own. It is curiosity that grows privately. It is taste shaped by experience instead of applause. It is refusing to flatten your life into content segments.
open.substack.com
Not everything needs to be broadcast. Curated lifestyle feels performative because who are you when no one’s watching. Will you still do it?
Visiting home this time round has been revelatory.
Looking at the piled up books that I’ve never read, I just found out that actually, my interests haven’t changed much: proses about creativity & art, architecture…things that I thought I should be reading about, are actually things that I genuinely connect with since... See more
Harrietsubstack.comFailing to engage our memory → loss of identity.
Our identity is built from lived experiences (quality) - if we stop actively remembering / reflecting those choices that we made or lived moments → we fail to get hold of those data points → fail to form a coherent / comprehensive sense of self.
Memory and Sensemaking