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Mirko
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
– Naval Ravikant
– Naval Ravikant
Carl Jung, OG psychologist, harped on the importance of shadow work – confronting the uncomfortable aspects of ourselves we typically avoid.
Sitting with boredom does just this.
Sitting with boredom does just this.
“We will get to it, we say, when the kids are grown, when there is enough money in the bank, when we are retired, perhaps when we are dead; surely it will be easier then. But we need to ask now: What can I be wholehearted about now?”
— David Whyte
No situation is boring in and of itself. Boredom arises only from our judgment — and from the implicit expectation that reality ought to be different from what it is.
via Mirko Marquardt
“What if the feeling I’ve been calling ‘success’ was just temporary relief from self-inflicted pressure? What if the real win wasn’t getting everything done, but no longer needing to prove that I can?”
via Substack “milk & cookies”
"What if we started measuring our days not by how productive they were, but by how peaceful they felt?"
via Substack “milk & cookies”
But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise. At best, it allows us to distract ourselves with the... See more