Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Self Love ~ Be gentle to yourself and Motivation vs Procrastination
This resonates strongly these days.
In a world where everything seems to be falling apart and so much is beyond my control, there is something deeply empowering about this simple, weird act. I can see the difference every time I drive home — the road is cleaner, safer, more beautiful. I’m outside instead of stewing indoors. I’m moving instead of scrolling. I’m solving a problem
... See moreThis is because you can type faster than you can handwrite. When it’s possible to keep up with a speaker and type verbatim notes, that’s what students do: but when using a ponderous pen or pencil, they have to develop alternative strategies to prioritise, organise, abbreviate and structure what they hear. This in turn leads to much better learning.
You remember when the iPhone came out? Nobody ran around saying you've got to get an iPhone. What happened is you would just see an iPhone and you would see how great the pictures were, whatever the hell, and you'd go, I want that. Nobody had to evangelize you or explain, well, what iPhone does is it co-locates super computing power in your pocket.
... See moreTo find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.
Over a century before Jungians pointed out the danger of ignoring and avoiding your creative potential, Danish philosopher and the godfather of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard said that the deepest form of despair is “to choose to be another than oneself.”
And what is any form of self-expression and creation other than choosing to be yourself?
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