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When they actively decide that a day is going to be a write-off, it gives them the mental space to enjoy themselves guilt-free. It means that they don’t procrastinate from having fun because they’re concerned they should be doing something more useful instead.
5. Master Mark Manson’s hidden skill Mark wrote “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Flying F*ck.” This way of life has spread through culture faster than a bat virus. The polite way to frame what Mark figured out is to drop your self-consciousness. The technical term in live theatre is called public solitude. All you have to do when telling a story to a live audience is pretend you’re alone in your bedroom and the audience isn’t there.
Storytelling Is One of the Greatest Superpowers — You Can Quietly Learn It From This Expert | by Tim Denning | Jul, 2022 | the Writing Cooperative
Tim Denning
Here’s the punch line: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it. Once the mental grooves of habit have been carved into your brain, they are nearly impossible to remove entirely—even if they go unused for quite a while. And that means that simply resisting temptation is an ineffective strategy. It is hard to maintain a Zen attitude in a life filled with interruptions. It takes too much energy. In the short-run, you can choose to overpower temptation. In the long-run, we become a product of the environment that we live in. To put it bluntly, I have never seen someone consistently stick to positive habits in a negative environment.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
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