The Skillfulness of Stillness - by Frederik Gieschen
Buffett: “If I were on Wall Street, I’d probably be a lot poorer. You get overstimulated. You hear lots of things. You may shorten your focus and a short focus is not conducive to long profits.”
This past Friday, I hopped on a train to the Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York. I had tried to publish this piece by that morning but it wasn’t ready. As soon as I boarded the train, I felt a wave of relief: new ideas spilled out of me and I started to edit the piece in my mind. I find these creative bursts happen reliably during travel. I guess that travel offers a unique combination of stillness and motion: I am both walking (boosts creativity) and in stillness on a train, plane, or while waiting to board. After writing about the value of stillness and listening to move out of…
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