“We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2809 A question to live with…for today at least
Take this question with you today as you meet the world of the animate and the inanimate getting your personal tasks done. Want to read the whole book? It is available free online. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2809
#tds2808 Attention Hog
BFA Thesis Film by Jessica Labut (2020) | Cleveland Institute of Art Afraid of losing their spot as the farmer’s favorite, an arrogant cow tries to get rid of the new piglet hogging all of his attention. “The extremes of comedic animation can bring levity to complex and upsetting situations.” – Jessica Labut … Read more »
#tds2807 What great listeners know
Today take time to see the animation, make some notes about which of these things a good friend might say you need to practice most. Take the day to practise. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2807
#tds2806 Primitive Technology and stillness?
Today’s post will work at many levels. You can just watch this video; at almost 20 minutes with no speech, no music just the sounds of activity in the wild, you may not last through to the end. Or you might be transfixed by it and connect with this human making the essentials for life… Read more »
#tds2805 The art and pleasure of ’40 winks’ (napping)
“So here’s to a life well-slept – not just in service of a productive work ethic, but in the interests of health, happiness, pleasure, wisdom and virtue.” Simon Williams Time for idle pleasures today. Take a nap. Enjoy! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2805
#tds2804 Well, how shall I practice…?
Brother David speaks to gratefulness and how to evolve a practice on this episode of On Being. We feel that his wise words generalise to anything we want to practise for a considered life. Today, just practice the Stop part of his method…and may be you will find enough stillness to listen to the whole… Read more »
#tds2803 Your fear list
“I thought this might be a good practice for a Daily Stillness activity: Listing our fears keeps them from being a surprise – we can get comfortable around them.” Today your job is to start making your very own fear list to befriend. This may take more than today…that is okay. One day… Read more »
#tds2802 We are like the tinkle of a tiny bell
“…[Each] world has a song that is begun with the first life on a world, a song that sounds within the world to foster life and variation. All living creatures are a part of the song which shall be sung forever, until the last star goes out…[But] sometimes living creatures do not wish to be… Read more »
#tds2801 Women Gathering mushrooms
“It shows how this musical tradition has evolved its own acoustic niche which puts human communication in its true ecological context. Hopefully by paying attention to the sound world around us and by listening more deeply, we might learn to more fully appreciate the beautiful complexity of the more than human world that we are… Read more »
#tds2800 The absence of lack
“Theres no true free time when you carry a smartphone. Todays rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your own thoughts.” Michael Harris How might you embed lack in your day today? Digital lack that is. Not checking Facebook for a day? Or Twitter? Or go for a walk without your smartphone? Go… Read more »
#tds2799 Alone with your thoughts or an electric shock?
“These findings are surprising. It’s hard to believe that ordinary people chose to distract themselves with electric shocks that they had just claimed they would pay to avoid. Yet there are understandable reasons for not wanting to be alone with one’s thoughts.” Ruth Baer Read the article twice, away from all notifications. Take time to… Read more »
