Fantastic article! You hit the entire problem of the world, or US at least, in a nutshell.
I have been very lucky to have never been bored my whole life. Even at 73 I am always creating things…going from one project to another, experimenting. Screwing up…trying again. These last 18 years of retirement have been the best. No routines!
This reminds me of something by Byung Chul Han about creating time to do nothing. Embracing it. Giving ourselves permission to not be doing something. I think we need more of that.
Yep "profound boredom" and the need for the contemplative life. I have been intentionally slowing down and reading in silence to actually think. I think my writing has gotten way more focused because of it. Plus fuck notifications and screens!
to quote the great Socrates one more time, when he finally was persuaded to go to the market, after arriving and looking around: 'How many things I don't need...'.
Lovely read! So interesting how difficult it has become to embrace inefficiency, to the point that we have to force ourselves to do it intentionally. We are adapting optimization as our main mode, making just sitting in the nothing and being creative so uneasy, which is such a shame, if not truly problematic for society.
Fantastic article! You hit the entire problem of the world, or US at least, in a nutshell.
I have been very lucky to have never been bored my whole life. Even at 73 I am always creating things…going from one project to another, experimenting. Screwing up…trying again. These last 18 years of retirement have been the best. No routines!
This reminds me of something by Byung Chul Han about creating time to do nothing. Embracing it. Giving ourselves permission to not be doing something. I think we need more of that.
Yep "profound boredom" and the need for the contemplative life. I have been intentionally slowing down and reading in silence to actually think. I think my writing has gotten way more focused because of it. Plus fuck notifications and screens!
Beautiful reflection on how busyness can make us miss out on life.
to quote the great Socrates one more time, when he finally was persuaded to go to the market, after arriving and looking around: 'How many things I don't need...'.
Lovely read! So interesting how difficult it has become to embrace inefficiency, to the point that we have to force ourselves to do it intentionally. We are adapting optimization as our main mode, making just sitting in the nothing and being creative so uneasy, which is such a shame, if not truly problematic for society.