Hi Friend-
I would love to have you be part of the next edition of the Hurry Slowly podcast.
For my final episode of the year, I am collecting stories about the "strange gifts" of 2020.
It goes without saying that this has been an incredibly trying, disorienting, and painful year.
What I'm interested in is this:
How have you transmuted the challenges you faced this past year into an insight or idea that has changed your perspective for the better? What "strange gifts" have you mined from the hardship of 2020?
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If you would like to participate, simply reply to this email with your story by Sunday, December 6th. (Written is fine, no need to record audio.) Please include your name and location, or let me know if you would prefer that your submission be anonymous.
My idea is that I'll read as many of your stories as I can on air for the next episode of Hurry Slowly. (Mind you, this is an experiment, and I have no idea how many responses I'll receive!)
Thanks for reading, and I'm looking forward to hearing your story.
Much love,
Jocelyn
| | LINK ABOUT IT
Inviting in tender discipline. For the most recent episode of Hurry Slowly, I talked about how to let go of the "speed-obsessed" mindset thrust upon us by our capitalistic culture and open up to a gentler form of discipline and productivity. Then I answered questions from listeners, like how to be tender with yourself when you're procrastinating, how to cling less tightly to your goals in this uncertain time, and how to feel like you're doing "enough." (Side note to live attendees: I added in some questions I missed in the chat for the podcast episode!) Listen here.
Everything doesn't have to be a product. A wonderful interview with poet and visual artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths: "I create things every day but it's not about everything having to be a product or for somebody else's experience. I would like to believe that my inner life is a spectrum of progressive transformations and experiments, rather than overly transactional. For me, creating and sustaining a private space where I allow myself to rest, to read, to cook, to play music, and to risk new turns of language and imagery where I have no idea how to be wrong or right, is part of the calling."
"The practice of letting go of gone things." A moving piece from Ekemini Uwan on radical acceptance: "Radical acceptance of this reality is not to be confused with approval of it. Linehan explains it thusly: 'Radical acceptance doesn't mean you don't try to change things ... You can't change anything if you don't accept it, because if you don't accept it, you'll try to change something else that you think is reality.' Additionally, radical acceptance is not a call to stoicism. An array of emotions (anger, fear, anxiety, grief, etc.) may arise within you in response to reality. Suppressing these emotions can be tempting, but allowing yourself to feel whatever you feel without judgment is also a kind of radical acceptance."
Is resilience overrated? I had a piece with a positive spin on resilience in the last newsletter, and this one is a nice riposte. It asks: Is praising resilience just another way of putting the onus on individuals to fix systemic problems? "There's an expectation that we're supposed to bounce back and that's the American way," she said. "And it takes the power structures off the hook." Or, as my friend Alison Fensterstock, who lives down the road, texted me: "'You're so resilient' is just code for 'You're on your own, sorry.'"
What if every day was pandemic day? An inspirational piece from Azeem Azhar on the global cooperation required to create a COVID-19 vaccine in just 310 days: "What would happen if we harnessed this pandemic mindset and applied it to other less visible pandemic-scale problems on our doorstep? What of climate change? What of women's rights? Or global poverty? Or unemployed youth? Or climate-based migration? Or water security?"
+ Don't blame social media, blame capitalism.
+ How to appreciate what you already have.
+ Come out.
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The artwork is from: Benoit Lapray, who is based in Paris, France.
Link ideas from: Jessica Bozek, Dense Discovery, and Recomendo.
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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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