rob hardy

rituals are to time what home is to space: they render time habitable - byung-chul han

is your perfectionism coming from fear or from love?

love-based perfectionism sounds like:

- "I want to make this better"

- "I can see how beautiful this could be"

- "it'd be even more fun if I could do it this way"

fear-based perfectionism sounds like:

- "I need to make this better"

- "I'm scared to put bad work into the world"

- "I'd finally feel relief... See more

Digital affordances seem to often constitute what Marshall McLuhan would call ‘hot media’ (1967), which require little active participation on the part of the audience, and are of highly predictable nature. Rosa would insist that to achieve resonance, we would want to cool media down to encourage active participation – a prerequisite for resonant... See more

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

The obsession with statistical norms has turned psychology into a system for pathologizing difference. Any deviation from statistical norms is labeled a "disorder." Instead of understanding the full spectrum of human experience, we rush to correct it.

This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but... See more