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This is from "Mind Performance Hacks" by Ron-Hale Evans concerning clutter:
Clutter fills the future with the past.
An interesting thing about records is that we tend to see them again. That's what they're there for, after all. There's something about looking backward, however, which seems to damage the soul.
Reactivating dead thought patterns, over and over again, we can feel old desires like ghosts, moving us this way and that as we put ourselves under their sway again. A 15 year-old boy remembers wanting to become and astronaut. A 23 year-old man laments a lost girlfriend. Even the little things carry ghosts: a shopping list never fulfilled for an old project, a half-finished drawing, a story idea in a line.
If the bad memories nag, happy memories can be even worse. Winning a medal in sixth grade. Old soccer trophies. A special love letter. To be sure, we remember these times with love and fondness, but there is also something BAD there. There can come to be a strange gnawing feeling and a dissatisfaction with a present that can never live up to the polished memories of old expectations.
Be careful of what you force yourself to remember. Be mindful when sending messages to your future self, because it might not want to be bothered so much.
In real life
Pre-delete the trappings of the immediate day. Keep the important metal artificats as long as you must, but be ready to discard them when you are done. Don't end up saddled with a warehouse full of old ideas and memories so that taking care of them edges out everything else you can do today and tomorrow.
You'll have less stuff pulling at your attention, it'll be easier to find what you want in the present, and you'll set your future free.
any thoughts? (the rest of the book is less theoretical, but worth a read)
Clutter fills the future with the past.
An interesting thing about records is that we tend to see them again. That's what they're there for, after all. There's something about looking backward, however, which seems to damage the soul.
Reactivating dead thought patterns, over and over again, we can feel old desires like ghosts, moving us this way and that as we put ourselves under their sway again. A 15 year-old boy remembers wanting to become and astronaut. A 23 year-old man laments a lost girlfriend. Even the little things carry ghosts: a shopping list never fulfilled for an old project, a half-finished drawing, a story idea in a line.
If the bad memories nag, happy memories can be even worse. Winning a medal in sixth grade. Old soccer trophies. A special love letter. To be sure, we remember these times with love and fondness, but there is also something BAD there. There can come to be a strange gnawing feeling and a dissatisfaction with a present that can never live up to the polished memories of old expectations.
Be careful of what you force yourself to remember. Be mindful when sending messages to your future self, because it might not want to be bothered so much.
In real life
Pre-delete the trappings of the immediate day. Keep the important metal artificats as long as you must, but be ready to discard them when you are done. Don't end up saddled with a warehouse full of old ideas and memories so that taking care of them edges out everything else you can do today and tomorrow.
You'll have less stuff pulling at your attention, it'll be easier to find what you want in the present, and you'll set your future free.
any thoughts? (the rest of the book is less theoretical, but worth a read)
