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We move the clocks forward this coming weekend! I don’t know how it is in your part of the world, but for us this means more sunlight in the morning, a bit less in the evening, with longer days to compensate. That said: is anyone ever going to end this? The ridiculous ritual of breaking our internal clocks twice a year? I really hope so. Especially since the switch seems to come faster and faster. But that’s just me getting older, I know…don’t you dare. … I used last week’s break to explore the way I ingest knowledge—in line with the clean-up I wrote about in our last email. It began with curiosity about Zettelkasten and bloomed from there. But I’m not looking to lose myself in yet another productivity dead-end: this is about expanding what I know to inspire what I do. The result is an ideation workflow that I’m excited about and will share with you in an upcoming Other Tools post. There’s still a few details to iron out. This morning I watched a TED talk with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of the flow concept (1). And he showed a graph that seriously hit home: at the opposite end of flow, was apathy. Damn. So that’s what we’ve been feeling all along? Vaccination in Canada is finally ramping up, and we’ll hopefully avoid a third wave. I’m thoroughly sick of it, but now’s the time to keep our collective cool. After all we’ve been through, however, it might also be time to challenge ourselves again. To learn and grow… and get ready to leap forward.
P.S A small detail but I’ve moved all links below from titles to header images. FYI. What we refer to as “being in the zone”. The state of grace we all feel when the work seems to fall into place effortlessly.
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