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Breaks… inspire creativity. Scientists have found that people who take time to daydream score higher on tests of creativity.
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…when a person’s ‘time horizon’ is short… it becomes increasingly clear just exactly what is important…. it [is] easier to decide how to spend the precious resource of time, now that you can see how finite it truly is.
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A final lesson in learning how to climb out of that ceaseless frenzy of the overwhelm… [is] learning how to master the ceaseless clutter of your own contaminated mind.
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…when we slow down, when we learn to pause and notice where we are and feel at home, our complex brain literally grows bigger.
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…the overwhelm never goes away. But you can change how you think about it: pausing and noticing it without judgment, not reacting to it.
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…as the brain grows, the better you are able to see the swirl of the overwhelm without getting swept away by it.
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Getting out of the overwhelm… means waking up. Waking up to life. Waking up to the fact that it’s fleeting.
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