Minutes of a Monday #17
Brain Food > Taking charge
“Unless a person takes charge of them, both work and free time are likely to be disappointing. Most jobs and many leisure activities – especially those involving the passive consumption of mass media – are not designed to make us happy and strong. Their purpose is to make money for someone else.
If we allow them to, they can suck out the marrow of our lives, leaving only feeble husks. But like everything else, work and leisure can be appropriated for our needs. People who learn to enjoy their work, who do not waste their free time, end up feeling that their lives as a whole have become much more worthwhile. “The future,” wrote CK Brightbill “will belong not only to the educated, but to those who are educated to use their time wisely.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of flow, from his book Flow.
Soul Food
“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
Rare Air
“even if we’re never shown a moment of a character’s childhood or hear a word of dialogue about it, in a story, as in life, adult character grows from the seeds of a childhood experience. A character doesn’t hatch when it appears on-screen any more than a person’s does when we first shake hands with them.”
Susan Batson, on the ‘public persona’. A building block for creating a character taken from her book Truth.
Appendix
I’m very excited about this:
LOL
Ricky Gervais doing what he does better than anyone:
AOB
Hope you had a good Christmas day yesterday – Niall