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Mirko
If you fear that you’d waste your life, you must define what “not wasted” is to yourself."
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
“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.” — Jerry Seinfeld
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver... See more
In the early 1900s, psychoanalytic theorists speculated that people became bored out of unfulfilled unconscious desire. Midcentury existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, by contrast, saw boredom as a fundamental philosophical crisis, what Schopenhauer once termed "the feeling of the emptiness of life."
Could boredom be curable? - The Boston Globe
replacing “self-care” with “self-comfort”
the problem with self-care is that it often feels like work. taking care of yourself can start to feel like another thing on the to-do list. so instead of asking, “what should i do to take care of myself?” i started asking, “what would make me feel safe and cozy right now?” sometimes that means taking a long... See more
the problem with self-care is that it often feels like work. taking care of yourself can start to feel like another thing on the to-do list. so instead of asking, “what should i do to take care of myself?” i started asking, “what would make me feel safe and cozy right now?” sometimes that means taking a long... See more
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“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” Managers who spend most of their lives in meetings should post that thought on their office walls.