avoidance & expression - by Isabel - Mind Mine
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how many ways can i find to avoid The Thing?
North Shore, Lake Superior by Lawren Harris It has been interesting watching myself continually avoid things I know I need to do —that I want to do!—which take considerable activation energy to complete. This is nothing new: I’ve written before about how hard things are hard to do, or that flow state is preceded by resistance. But I have always taken pride in my ability to conquer the task, to attack the problem, to get after it—whatever the “it” of the moment is. So: why have I been so avoidant lately? Even though I occasionally succumb to the attention-scattered-nature my generation is…
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