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Meanwhile, in case you somehow haven’t noticed, we are all of us becoming it; we seem to have no choice but to take it within ourselves.
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
There are endless ways to enhance and even enchant your day. If you have consumption rituals that punctuate your daily life, I encourage you to think about what you can do to make them even more resonant. If you can't think of any, I encourage you to take this opportunity to add in a moment of pause and pleasure. Savoring rituals like the ones above can be small but powerful generators of everyday joy, an easily accessible and often inexpensive means of transforming the ordinary into something more.
The Ritual Effect
Michael Norton
Struggling to hold on to information and then recall it had helped the group distracted by math problems transfer the information from short-term to long-term memory. The group with more and immediate rehearsal opportunity recalled nearly nothing on the pop quiz. Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle.
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