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“I think as one grows older, one is appallingly exposed to wearing life instead of living it. Habit, physical deterioration and a slower digestion of our experiences, all tend to make one look on one’s dear life as a garment, a dressing gown, a raincoat, a uniform, buttoned on with recurrent daily (tasks)….for myself I found one remedy, and that is to undertake something difficult, something new, to re-root myself in my own true faculties….for in such moments, life is not just a thing one wears, it is a thing one does and is.” —WILLIAM MAXWELL’S “THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER”
Wisdom at Work
Chip Conley
Situation awareness is our subjective sense of the immediate relevance and quality of an active mental model: an unwieldy, dynamic and partially coherent construct that represents our understanding of a particular class of situations. You might have one for work and one for home. Mental models are unruly. They overlap, leak into each other and form wobbly hierarchies; your mental model for meeting might be a small, compact one that overlaps both work and home.
And what was the truth I was seeing? What struck me at the time was that, for the first time ever, this standard thought of mine—“You screwed up”—didn’t seem to be coming from me. It was just some guy in my head doing the talking. And it wasn’t clear that he was worth paying attention to. Who the hell was he, anyway?
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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