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From Berkeman’s book:

An alternative, Shinzen Young explains, is to pay more attention to every moment, however mundane: to find novelty not by doing radically different things but by plunging more deeply into the life you already have. Experience life with twice the usual intensity, and “your experience of life would be twice as full as it currently is”–and any period of life would be remembered as having lasted twice as long.

We might seek to incorporate into our daily lives more things we do for their own sake along–to spend some of our time, that is, on activities in which the only thing we’re trying to get from them is the doing itself.

…when presented with a challenging or boring moment, try deliberately adopting an attitude of curiosity, in which your goal isn’t to achieve any particular outcome, or successfully explain your position, but, as Hobson puts it, “to figure our who this human being is that we’re with.” Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike.

One of my aims this year is to be more mindful in my daily activities. More attention; less multitasking.

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