Most people grapple at some time or another with free-floating anxiety that saps energy and increases stress. Through written reflection, you may realize that a certain unpleasant feeling ties back to, say, a difficult interaction with your mother. That type of insight, research has shown, can help locate, ground and ultimately resolve the emotion and the associated stress.
Quotes
It’s unwise and futile to try to shove iPhone interfaces and paradigms into the Apple Watch. Instead, design for what the Watch really is.
It’s unwise and futile to try to shove iPhone interfaces and paradigms into the Apple Watch. Instead, design for what the Watch really is.
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
Bob Dylan (via lazyyogi)
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman (via bijan)
I find it odd that we still train students to think that they’re just going to make things, versus that they might make a few things, but maybe a lot of their career is going to be arguing why something shouldn’t be made but still get paid for.
I find it odd that we still train students to think that they’re just going to make things, versus that they might make a few things, but maybe a lot of their career is going to be arguing why something shouldn’t be made but still get paid for.
Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs. It just seems such an awful lot of words to concentrate on, on their own, without something else happening. And once you’ve finished one chapter, you have to get through the another one. And usually a whole bunch more, before you can say finished, and get to the next. The next book. The next thing. The next possibility. Next next next.
When people are confronted with evidence that is “inconsistent with their beliefs” (ie. the odds of winning by switching doors being ⅔, instead of ½), they first respond by refuting the information, then band together with like-minded dissenters and champion their own hard-set opinion.
Being skillful and exercising your mastery is what you’re here to do. Doing anything less undermines the whole point of being alive.