Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
The One You Feed
The Hedonic Treadmill Hamster Wheel
I think when we approach these things in such a way, we're no longer present with the unfolding of our experience. We're just sort of performing another kind of hedonic treadmill hamster wheel thing. I'm interested in your thought on that because it gets right to this productivity versus presence. How we find that line or how we hold these two, what sometimes feel like exclusive states of mind.
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