The fact that it takes longer to write things out by hand gives handwriting its cognitive edge.*
Ryder Carroll

Devote the back half of your life to serving others with your wisdom. Get old sharing the things you believe are most important.**
Arthur Brooks

There is no need to panic –
Slow and longer are more than okay,
They are good for us,
Inviting us into an openness – a
superpower in today’s world of
fast, busy and overstimulated:
The hardest state for a
human being is that of
open-endedness.^

There will be times when we have
to play our finite games – and reach our destinations, but
the open-ended person, while knowing this, also
enjoys the ever-journeying of the infinite, the knowing
and never-knowing.

One point of embarkation into slow and long openness is
quietness and solitude:
You may want to gift yourself 4’33”^^ of stillness in which to
listen, and if you find yourself distracted by all that
needs to be done, simply
bring yourself back to listening.

*Ryder Carroll’s The Bullet Journal Method;
**Arthur Brooks’ From Strength to Strength;
^Maria Popova’s The Marginalian blog: The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular;
^^I often set the timer on my phone to 4’33” and seek to be open to the place I am in by listening; you may also open other senses one by one: touch, smell, and sight.