Join 📚 Jim's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jim's read, .
As an experiment, I'd like you to try this out today:
• Notice as many good things that are happening as possible... they don't have to be huge: someone smiles at you, you accomplish a small task, you're cozy under a warm blanket...
• Stay with the feeling of each one for 10-30 seconds, making it more important and bigger in your mind.
• You can even imagine it as something that is sinking into you — perhaps a warm, glowy ball or a soothing balm over your heart.
Why Your Brain Fixates on the Bad Stuff
Rick Hanson
That, to me, is the biggest thing that came out of this strange journey I went on: to acknowledge that I could care this much and this deeply. To acknowledge that it really matters to me whether or not, like, songbirds survive — you know, it shouldn't be odd to express these things; it should be completely normal. But it's not.
On 'Ignorance,' the Weather Station Compels You to Care
self-titled effort
You know, I wonder if previous generations felt at home in the world in a way that we can't, because we know that previous generations have basically prevented us from having a future like they had.
On 'Ignorance,' the Weather Station Compels You to Care
self-titled effort
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise