Hi Friends-
Season 3 of Hurry Slowly just launched on Tuesday with a 20-minute meditation from yours truly on letting go, waking up, and the challenges of moving through personal transformation.
As you might imagine, it's a very personal episode, where I discuss the impact — and agony! — of going on a 19-day retreat, what happens when your creative ambitions turn toxic, and how the podcast is changing and what's ahead for the new season.
I'll be expanding my brief beyond the usual productivity fare this season and diving into deeper territory like intuition, ethics, and self-transformation.
Listen to: "Letting Go Isn't Easy"
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p.s. Mark your calendar: My online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, re-opens for registration on Dec 17th, with the course beginning in early January — right in time for resolutions. Or letting go of resolutions!
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Zadie Smith on fighting the algorithm. This: "The key with the unfreedom of the algorithm is that it knows everything and it feeds back everything. So, you can no longer have this bit of humanity which is absolutely necessary — privacy: the sacred space in which you do not know what the other thinks of you. You (come home) and close the door and go 'Ah, I'll put my sweats on.' I'll be myself with the people I'm most intimate with who, in reality, are four people at most. That is what it is to be human. When that no longer exists it's hard to be human. The recovery time to be human is gone."
Postponing self-acceptance in favor of self-improvement. I got so much out of this interview with Buddhist psychotherapist Bruce Tift, which is all about how we heal the wounds we carry and how we can be more present while we are healing. In other words, that presence, appreciation, and self-love need not be postponed until after we're "fixed." His description of neuroses and how they operate is worth the price of admission alone. Don't miss it.
Advice not given — a guide to getting over yourself. I've also been reading another book by a Buddhist therapist, Mark Epstein, called Advice Not Given. I bought it primarily because of my love of the title and it hasn't let me down — a really wonderful exploration of meditation and letting go of our attachment to the ego. Recommended reading.
Can you live slow in your 20s, or is burnout inevitable? I had an absolutely fantastic conversation with Brooke from the Slow Home Podcast about how young people can live, work, and evolve into their careers in an intentional way. We tackled a bunch of questions about how to "slow down" when you're not the person in the power position. The first part of the interview is Brooke talking with Lauren, a 20-something, about finding her way, and the second part, which starts at 35:19, is me responding to her concerns. A really enjoyable conversation.
Philip Glass on lineage vs legacy. A beautiful meditation on the value of making art. I love that it shifts the emphasis from after you're dead to the here and now: "The important thing is how [you are] connected to the past. Does that represent not only continuity, but does it bring us closer to something that's richer, that's more interesting? What have we brought to the world and what do we leave behind us and what does the future have for us? The future … is in our children. It's in our friends. It's in our work. It's all around us. I find that the most reassuring when we contemplate living and dying, that [it] really misses the point: It's not the living and dying, it's the continuity of the lives that's important."
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The beautiful artwork is from: Eiko Ojala, who operates out of Estonia.
Much appreciation for link ideas to: Exponential View.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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