Great essay, Tom. I've been considering this topic recently, mainly because 2024 was not a massively productive year for me. I slowed down but replaced busyness with more passive consumerism. Watching videos and reading posts and books, still searching for the elusive key to success. It's like having a box with what you need inside it (your clear thoughts) but piling things on top of it (other people's thoughts). This year, I'm spending longer in stillness, allowing all the thoughts and ideas within me to percolate and generate the answers I need. The practice is already bearing fruit.
Great essay, and it fit perfectly with the essay I read just before yours. . . https://www.noemamag.com/how-disinformation-deforms-democracy/
Great minds, as they say! That was a very good read, thanks for passing it along.
Great essay, Tom. I've been considering this topic recently, mainly because 2024 was not a massively productive year for me. I slowed down but replaced busyness with more passive consumerism. Watching videos and reading posts and books, still searching for the elusive key to success. It's like having a box with what you need inside it (your clear thoughts) but piling things on top of it (other people's thoughts). This year, I'm spending longer in stillness, allowing all the thoughts and ideas within me to percolate and generate the answers I need. The practice is already bearing fruit.
This exactly mirrors my situation in a way that’s quite spooky. You’re dead on with the box idea too, Phil. Cheers.
Masterful dissection of rather a mindworming issue; the king truly is back.
That's very kind of you to say. Though at this point I've made more comebacks than an over the hill prizefighter. hahaha.
maybe that's a good strategy tbh
It is until it isn't, I suspect. A bit like crying wolf.