The ways out.
‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Rolling Stone Interview | Rolling Stone
‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Rolling Stone Interview | Rolling Stone
“The same fights we have over the role of our government now and the size of our government now are the fights they were having. Add the brutality of slavery to that mix as an undercurrent in all of those decisions. So I guess the biggest takeaway is, yes, this election cycle is bizarre. But it’s no more bizarre than the election in 1800, wherein Jefferson accused Adams of being a hermaphrodite and Adams responded by [spreading rumors] that Jefferson died, so Adams would be the only viable candidate. He was counting on news to travel slow! That, weirdly, gives me hope.”
There is so much insight about the repetition of history in this entire interview. Read the whole thing.
Your human-size life
Live a gentle human-size life. Go for a walk in your middle-class neighborhood and run into a friend of a friend and share what you see, and influence their life for the better. That’s the kind of thing a human can do.
So much to ponder here. Yet, I can tell you from personal experience it’s all true.
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For those of you that have been engaging with this blog for months or years, please share this post with ten friends you care about. We don’t have to sit idly by while powerful choke points push us toward ad-filled noisy media.
Agreed. I love blogs, always have. Subscribe to about 50 in my RSS reader of choice. Maintain more than my fair share too.
I figure I have at least ten friends here that I care about so, just doing my part as Seth suggests.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
James Altucher – HOW MINIMALISM BROUGHT ME FREEDOM AND JOY I have…
James Altucher – HOW MINIMALISM BROUGHT ME FREEDOM AND JOY I have…
Lots of chewy dogma-free chucks of goodness in here. Too many to pull quote just one.
Automatic
Even now players are out in the yard
Players throw and kick and take and get
Vulnerable to the way the earth spins
Vulnerable to the time we don’t have
Vulnerable to
Feet, one in front of then other
Feet that move me
Feet that stand still
Feet that hold me up
Dreamlike in the corner
Dreamlike visions of future lives
Painted with colors so vivid they seem like reality
Painted with greens and purples
Menu of my desires
Menu of my needs
Menu — off the menu
I wrestle with my want of other
Crap I don’t need
Crap that doesn’t need me
Crap I won’t take
Glass through the looking
Glass half full or half empty
This was formed during a writers workshop I was in yesterday. It’s a process called Automatic Writing. It is designed to spur writing that comes straight from the subconscious — non-sensical, no purpose, just letting the pen go. The instructor opened a book, flipped to a page, and chose a word to call out every thirty seconds or so — all at random. We had to switch and use each word as a prompt as soon as she called it. After it was done, I read what I write and realized I kind of like how mine came out. It is a pretty good poem. A great lesson and reminder that the words are already in you, you just have to learn how to get out of their way.
On Worry
Worry is wasted energy if not converted to action. It serves no purpose other than to drive action. Worry is alleviated in two ways:
- Taking action on that which worries you.
- Letting it go and redirecting that energy elsewhere.
Worry is born of desire — desire for change. If worry does not drive the action for change, or if there is no action you can take that will strive for or effect change, then what good is your desire?
But, in my opinion, one of the biggest problems with worry is that it makes one believe they are doing something. Especially when there is no action one could take that will affect change. That worry is all you have to do. That if you worry about something enough it will somehow effect change.
Worry is the catalyst between desire and “done” — nothing more. It should not exist outside of that structural tension.
So, if you’re going to worry, at least worry about important things. Things that matter. Things that you can take some action on. Make your worry worth it. Use it to get things done.