Mirko

In short, emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.
(Emily Nagoski, “Burnout”)

„There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.“

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“You reach for distraction, comfort, procrastination - not because you’re weak, but because your brain is trying to soothe you. The thing is, avoidance often brings short-term relief - an internal reward that strengthens the behavior, even if it leads to long-term frustration. And that quick dopamine hit from procrastinating, avoiding conflict, or

Not all burnout is about doing too much.

Sometimes it’s about doing too little of what lights you up.

Overwhelm gets the blame. But under-fulfillment is often the culprit.

Energy returns and cynicism flees when meaning (and dark chocolate) reenter the conversation.

— via Jonathan Fields, Substack

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Better” is a journey, not a destination

“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.” — Jerry Seinfeld