Every time you ship, you plunge your sword into the dragon of resistance and you silence the fear.
Source: How to Build an Audience of 1000 True Fans in a Noisy World
For the next time you pause when pressing publish or send.
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Time to read is seen as a luxury, a flower broken by the storm. The first thing we lose under pressure is discretionary time, and yet without this investment in ourselves, we are destined, forever, to be ourselves. To deny the opportunity to become the person who we have the potential to be. To grow is to thrive. If we lose ourselves in the busyness of the everyday, we are simply surviving.
Source: On Reading
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Time and quiet should not be luxury items. – Tim Kreider
Source: Time Off
At the end of the Time Off episode 10 Actions From 2018 there's some bonus content, Tim Kreider's audio essay on busyness. It's similar, although not identical to his 2012 opinion piece in The New York Times.
This quote stood out to me. He's right, time and quiet, space to think, should not be luxuries. We need to be able to build this into our daily lives. It's a theme I'll be thinking and writing more about this year.
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.
Source: The 'Busy' Trap
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