The book is called inciting joy essays, the word essay comes from a French word to mean to try to attempt. There's an essay, a swag love and who's really a model for those essays named Montaigne. They're just his sort of like wandering through some thinking and they are to me just beautiful. Do you know whether he edited? Did he go back and try and edit it? Or was it just like stream of consciousness and he drops it on you?
In This Episode, You'll Learn
- How his “delight” project was about learning to pay attention
- Discovering that joy and delight are abundant if you are looking and paying attention
- Defining joy and all that accompanies this profound emotion
- How talking about joy and gratitude helps with the difficulties in life
- The importance of laughter and how it connects us to joy
- Why we need to slow down and listen to our bodies
- How busyness is a way of avoiding or escaping
- How writing can be a tool for self discovery and gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves
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