JasonSeveral Corroborative Thoughts on Pacing Yourself
https://janusworx.com/blog/several-corroborative-thoughts-on-pacing-yourself/
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The Rest Is Memory
Be Nobody but Yourself
https://janusworx.com/blog/be-nobody-but-yourself/
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Be Nobody but Yourself
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t. A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking. Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel.
Cal Newport’s Minimalist Note Taking System
https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-cal-newports-minimal-notes-system/
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Note to Self, Cal Newport’s Minimal Notes System
My old-style slow notetaking process. Replaced now with Elipsa Annotations, which then move along with my thoughts into Org Roam Notes. Click to see bigger Cal Newport recently did a deep dive on his podcast, on a minimalist note taking system for various areas of your life. Video’s on Youtube, if you want to watch. It’s called A Productivity System To Remember Everything You Learn. It matches, what I’ve organically been doing all these years.
I read Babel!
jasonHeraclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public-Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other of follies.
And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.
— Seneca (On the Tranquility of Mind 15.2)
Just because we are light footed in this journey of life, people think of us as frivolous, which is not the case … Life should be a … There should be happiness and cheer and lightness of being, no? What else we here for?
— Ranveer Singh (KWK S07E01)
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And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.
— Seneca (On the Tranquility of Mind 15.2)
Just because we are light footed in this journey of life, people think of us as frivolous, which is not the case … Life should be a … There should be happiness and cheer and lightness of being, no? What else we here for?
— Ranveer Singh (KWK S07E01)
#Stoicism #Syntopica
The case for rereading
I’m not talking about just any kind of rereading here. If it’s been a decade since you’ve read a book, you aren’t so much rereading as reading it for the first time—again. I’m taking about rereading when the book is still reasonably fresh, maybe within a year. If more time has passed, you will have forgotten large parts of it, or misremembered, and will still experience some of the initial novelty you had with the first read. But a reread within a year, or a few at most, occupies a space where you can still recall enough to approach a book with familiarity. Instead of being surprised by a turn of events, you anticipate them; lines and phrases pop out as ones you remember, but they seem louder this time around, more resonant—as if they are lining up with the memory of the first time you heard them, wave patterns amplifying one another.
Reread a book enough times, or often enough—keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up passages here and there—and it will eventually root itself in your mind. It becomes both a reference point and a connector, a means of gathering your knowledge and experience, drawing it all together. It becomes the material through which you engage with the world.
Rereading packs your brain with thoughts to think with. It also makes other thoughts—like those that might flit by you in the form of various newsfeeds—less likely to be thought with. It gives you something to hold on to, something to draw back to, when everything else is in flux.
Reading isn’t an escape—it’s a reckoning.
Rereading is training, practice for remaking and unmaking—and, yes, razing—the world. Rereading draws your best thoughts close, keeps them at the ready, prepares you to think thoughts with them, prepares you to act with them at hand. Your favorite reads are your armor and your weapons and your shelter all in one.
What have you gathered about you? What has taken root in your mind? What thoughts are you thinking with?
— Mandy Brown
The whole post is a delight … https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/case-for-rereading
