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I also find that pacing systems are a helpful tool for breaking the boom-or-bust cycle. Pacing systems intervene with the boom-or-bust cycle by creating a system to have a more balanced expenditure of energy throughout so that we don't have as extreme of crashes.
Why a Neurodivergent Spoon Theory?
Megan Anna Neff
We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” There’s no scrambling up to the safety of the riverbank when the river is you.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
In 1938, at Florida’s Marine Studios, Cecil M. Walker demonstrated the feasibility of training bottlenose dolphins, followed by the opening of the first ‘cetacean display facility’ at ‘Marineland’, thereby contributing to the growing appeal of keeping dolphins in captivity15. However, the surge in the display of captive cetaceans gained substantial momentum in the early 1960s with the release of the movie and TV series ‘Flipper.’ The heightened demand for dolphins during this period fuelled the widespread capture and trade of thousands of cetaceans.
The Cruellest Show on Earth
Whale And Dolphin Conservation
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