Do Less. - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions
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My year of magical not-thinking
On my left ribs, I have a too-big tattoo of text from my favorite book, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut: “busy, busy, busy.” In the book, the quote continues: “... is what … we whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” The lesson is: Don’t be so sure you know how any of this works. At the auspicious age of 42, life keeps surprising me by revealing that my most basic beliefs are wrong. Like: distance = rate x time. It turns out that more time doing does not necessarily lead to better results. I’ve slowly gotten better at recognizing this…
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