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But most of us are much better at spontaneity than we are at self-discipline. We find it relatively easy to be distracted. We find it much more difficult to stay involved and focused on what we know we need to do. So don’t give up spontaneity. And certainly don’t abandon joy and flexibility. Just get better at self-discipline. If you’re not taking
... See moreGregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
It's hard to be sympathetic to many aspiring intellectuals when they flat-out refuse to pay attention to the actual popular mediums of their day: short-form video, long-form audio, and short-form text. Not novels and film. Get over it guys. It is what it is! Adapt!
Marko Jukicx.comi must not take it personal. taking it personal is the mind killer. taking it personal is the little death that brings total oblivion. i will face taking it personal. i will permit it to pass over and through me. and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path. when the taking it personal has gone there will be nothing. only i... See more
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n his 1974 book Television: Technology and Cultural Form , Raymond Williams wrote that “in all communications systems before [television], the essential items were discrete.” That is, a book is bound and finite, existing on its own terms. A play is performed in a particular theater at a set hour. Williams argued that television shifted culture from... See more
Everything Is Television
In the last decade, social media has become less about social networking and more about replacing or supplementing big-screen TV time with a smaller-screen medium that serves the same functions. [Source: John Burn-Murdoch at the FT]
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.
Everything Is Television
In the last decade, social media has become less about social networking and more about replacing or supplementing big-screen TV time with a smaller-screen medium that serves the same functions. [Source: John Burn-Murdoch at the FT]
In the last decade, social media has become less about social networking and more about replacing or supplementing big-screen TV time with a smaller-screen medium that serves the same functions. [Source: John Burn-Murdoch at the FT]
I've come to think that this capacity for self-forgetting is central to what makes us human.
We're at our best when we're not thinking about ourselves at all.
We're at our best when we're not thinking about ourselves at all.
Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.
The point is to devote yourself to something fully and monastically. To work, to create, to lock-in and go deep.