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Catherine Price on the Power of Fun

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work & Life

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We've Been Lulled Into a Passive Nature, You Know?

We get so habitualized to picking up something and having it be what we notice, versus looking around at our surroundings. And that's one aspect of being trained out of noticing. The other thing is that then we almost have a substitutiary delight, you know, as with endorfins or things we'll scrawl ing like, oh, there's a funny thing. Our devices and the things we consume on our devices, they're engineered to get us to be passive because the more time we spend on them, the more money the companies behind them make. But i don't think most people are waking up in the morning saying,  the thing i want to do this morning

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