EPISODE · Oct 27, 2023 · 18 MIN
#73: How to practise being instead of doing
from The Academic Imperfectionist
Look at you there, always striving, always becoming, always hustling. When do you ever get to pause and just ... be? Do you even know how? Plenty of us don't. We had no problem just chilling and enjoying the moment when we were kids, but somewhere along the way, we lost that ability. We don't know how to enjoy life any more. In which case, what's the point of any of this? Put your existential angst on ice, friend, because The Academic Imperfectionist has you covered.Go here (and thank you!) if you'd like to donate to my fundraising for the brain injury charity, Headway.Read Laura Vanderkam's short article about savouring here.Reference:Bryant, F. B. and Veroff, J. 2007: Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience (Routledge).
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Look at you there, always striving, always becoming, always hustling. When do you ever get to pause and just ... be? Do you even know how? Plenty of us don't. We had no problem just chilling and enjoying the moment when we were kids, but somewhere along the way, we lost that ability. We don't know how to enjoy life any more. In which case, what's the point of any of this? Put your existential angst on ice, friend, because The Academic Imperfectionist has you covered. Go here (and thank you!)...
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