Hi Friends-
I'm currently having quite a bit of fun putting the finishing touches on my new online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday. Registration opens Dec 18.
Elsewhere, I just released a new Hurry Slowly episode with Thomas Page McBee, who wrote a beautiful memoir called Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man.
It's a thoughtful conversation about who gets heard at work, how we can fight gender bias and shift power dynamics, and why you might want to consider confronting your "shadow self."
Listen to "The Power Balance."
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The case against running with headphones. A lovely piece from Peter Sagal of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! about exercising in silence: "I have a friend who wears headphones on long solo runs because, he says, 'I can't spend that much time alone in my head.' I disagree. He can, and he should. Spending that much time inside one's head, along with the voices and the bats hanging from the various dendrites and neurons, is one of the best things about running, or at least one of the most therapeutic. Your brain is like a duvet cover: Every once in a while, it needs to be aired out."
Listening to your materials. A nice post from Austin Kleon on how to get kids — and humans of all sizes — to write and draw more: "Being able to analyze what the materials want to do is such a huge part making anything. Because you end up applying it yourself. You are a material with strengths and weaknesses. Being able to look at what you're working with objectively and decide what to make based on that is such a huge part of this job."
A conscious perspective on relationships. I've been browsing through Ram Dass' archives, and I love this observation: "When I go out into the woods, and I look at trees, I say, 'Oh, look at that one, oh look at that one, oh how interesting!' I don't ask why an Elm isn't an Oak… I just appreciate them for what they are. Somehow it's different when I get near humans, I somehow feel that it's a whole different category, and I move into my judging mode, saying, 'If that person was more like that person, things would be better.'"
Doing your own singular thing. In a recent newsletter, Jack Cheng put together some nice bits of advice from Pharrell Williams and John Mayer on making creative work that stands out: "The point of songwriting isn't to get me to see just your life. It's to see my life in the reflection of your details. You can write about a broken heart at a school water fountain, and if you tag the emotional core of it, I'm in."
+ How to balance full-time work with creative projects.
+ Reduce your anxiety by 65%.
+ 52 things I learned in 2018.
+ The fear of being you.
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Much appreciation to: Lorraine Weiss, Sam Valenti, The Art of Noticing, and Next Draft for link ideas.
The charming artwork is from: Mattias Adolfsson, who works out of Sigtuna, Sweden.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down — write books that will help you reclaim your time, and give uncommonly useful talks. | | | | |
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