Hi Friends-
Ever have that feeling like you're waiting at the starting gate, champing at the bit, but you can't get going because something is still missing? Well that's me right now — an over-achiever at rest.
From a more positive perspective, you could say that I'm in a period of gestation. New projects are quietly percolating and assembling internally — with little need for my conscious effort. But from the outside it just looks like stillness.
Anyway, I did make one new little thing for you: A Hurry Slowly interview with the writer Mira Jacob, whose stunning graphic memoir Good Talk was easily my favorite book of 2019.
We take a deep dive into her creative process and touch on working within constraints, the challenges of self-promotion, and the emotional labor of writing about race.
Listen to: "Mira Jacob: Difficult Conversations"
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p.s. If you're keen to reinvent the way you work in 2020, registration for the January session of my RESET course is now open!
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The false promise of morning routines. A nice piece pushing back against the holier-than-thou trend of glorifying one's morning routine — and shaming everyone who's not that together in the process: "But something sinister seems to be going on if you feel that you have to wake up 30 minutes earlier than usual to improve your well-being, so that you can also work 60 hours a week, cook dinner, run errands, and spend time with your family."
Why the queen of "shitty robots" renounced her crown. A lovely profile of the evolution of YouTube sensation Simone Giertz, and why she's leaving behind the identity that had her trapped in a smaller version of herself: "One of the things that I've been trying to figure out is: Was building shitty robots in some way a method for me to minimize myself, to make myself smaller? Because that's what I notice — a lot of women being really scared to step up and be an expert."
A toolkit for sobriety. This piece from Holly Whittaker is fantastic for anyone who wants to let go of any negative addictions in the new year: "A tool is anything that we use as a coping mechanism or use to shift/relieve our current state. Tools can be unhealthy (e.g., alcohol, drugs, sugar) or tools can be healthy (e.g., breathing, meditation, herbal tea). Most of us are not taught how to manage our bodies, emotions, states, discomforts, and feelings, and we end up turning to what is available to us—what we have learned will achieve the desired effect or release or relief."
On love and responsibility as a citizen. I wish I had had one tenth of the open-heartedness of this university student when I was 21: "We have become a nation that has unlearned love. More than two hundred years ago, Alexander Radishchev wrote, 'I gazed around myself, and my soul was wounded by human suffering. I then looked inside myself, and saw that man's troubles come from man himself.' Where are these kinds of people today? Where are the people whose hearts ache this much for what is happening in our country? Why are hardly any people like this left?"
+ Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."
+ Alexander Chee on writing.
+ On going with your gut.
+ Instagram face.
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The artwork is from: Mijoo Kim and Minjin Kang's photo series on the city of Busan.
Link ideas from: Elena Sheppard, Swiss Miss, and Women Who.
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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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