Jon Mead
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Jon Mead
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
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David Foster Wallace,from carry yourself lightly by Nix 🕊
- It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that you were – on balance – OK as you were? Or did you somewhere along the way derive an impression that you needed to be extraordinary in order to deserve a place on the earth? And, to raise an associat... See more
from Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
from The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- After all, not to be corny, haven’t we all become selective autobiographers in the digital age as we curate our lives for our own audiences of any size—cutting away from the raw fabric of our lived experience to reveal the shape of the story we most want to tell, whether it’s on our own feeds or the world’s stage?
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
- Our photographs are not memories; they are advertisements, billboards for a life we are too preoccupied to live.
from All Hail the Cloud by M. E. Rothwell
- We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
from All Hail the Cloud by M. E. Rothwell
‘Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by want and illusion.’
from Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library) by The School of Life Press
