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why put up with body discomfort just prove your what you attitude towards pain is ? - the body is a temple after all; an amazing biological efficient machine for your journey in life, so you need to take care of it like a well oiled and humming sports car LOL.

The meditation method is very bizarre ans strange, not for me, it sounds like an all too familiar rigid corporate work framework/practice. It is too robotic a lifestyle for my liking.

I prefer to see room for randomness and serendipitiy for happy accidents to occur and be discovered?, the cocktail parties or social events, the picnics, the dancing, the day out in sunlight or learning new untried things ? -- too much focus on work becomes monotonous and dull ... I belatedly found out during my early career. The COVID era was a personal reframing and discovery of a new way.

You also need empty spaces and to do nothing- why ?

Let Baltasar Gracian answer that:

"Know how to wait ...Scroll the open spaces of time to the center of opportunity"

Amazing coincidence, I just saw these interesting and timely articles in the New Yorker to reflect on.

Procrastination and the limits of rational thinking.

https://link.newyorker.com/click/36657562.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

The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done?hasha=ab04d80198e8cd03de384cb97b30764c&hashb=9bb3b70223c3783079f984673e62803e5126547d&hashc=95cb1779fbedb6f9569d840e37cf47aac04a80a73c45033989cff811f3b383f7

What Deadlines Do to Lifetimes

Can we find a balance between structuring our time and squandering it?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/what-deadlines-do-to-lifetimes?hasha=ab04d80198e8cd03de384cb97b30764c&hashb=9bb3b70223c3783079f984673e62803e5126547d&hashc=95cb1779fbedb6f9569d840e37cf47aac04a80a73c45033989cff811f3b383f7

Enjoy your course.

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