Delight and Joy Are Survival Mechanisms and Acts of Resistance | Ross Gay
10% Happier with Dan Harris
The Joy of Not Knowing and Aesthetic Experiences
Carrying a flip phone without a camera allows the speaker to embrace the joy of asking for directions and feeling sweetly helpless. Smartphones, on the other hand, create a false sense of self-sufficiency and disconnect us from one another. The speaker believes that delight is evidence of our connection to others. They also mention the suspicion of individualism in the listener's work, but want to explore that further later. The speaker finds aesthetic beauty in small everyday tasks like hanging clothes and folding laundry, which brings them joy.
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