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Try Something New-Old
The New-Old Things I’ve really gotten into “new-old” things recently. As I’ve been paring down my possessions, I realized I was not engaging with some of my favorite things. In the quest for something new, I forgot what I already had. That led me to explore not only my “new-old” things, but also old hobbies…
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Preview: Nothing Needs to Change
I had an unusually busy Sunday so I’ll just give you a preview for now: I don’t need anything to change for me to be happy. That’s a realization I had earlier this week. There’s so many things I feel like I should do or be, but even if I do none of them; am…
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Is There a Lesson to Be Learned Here?
I think we miss out on a lot of wisdom by dismissing ideas that are extreme or that don’t work for us without adapting them. Extreme Minimalism I listened to a book by an extreme minimalist who got rid of almost all his stuff and lives in a ~200 sq. ft. apartment. Am I going…
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Subtractive Solutions: When Less is More
Subtractive Solutions They did a study where experimenters added an unnecessary brick to a lego house that unbalanced the roof. The participants’ job was was to fix the house. The solution is simple, just remove the extra brick. But most participants opted for the most difficult solution: Adding an additional brick under every other corner…