The word practice is used to indicate a process, a non-binary state, a working towards something, a guiding oneself through the current moment. Other activities advance through directing the body, whereas meditation through directing the mind
[Ask questions before reading the book, perhaps by turning the headings into questions.]
[Explain it to yourself or someone else after, maybe publish your own summary online.]
[Share magic with those around you, create magicians.]
A 10-Minute Practice for Doing Nothing
Whatever you're experiencing in this moment is what it's like to be you
[For the next minute, everything that happens is okay, accept it all.]
Let's talk about work stoppages, generally..
[General strikes work because various industries stopping at the same time lowers the GDP and creates pressure felt by those who fund politicians.]
[It is important to have community networks during a strike so that word spreads to everyone and that the actions are coordinated.]
Great leaders take blame and pass along credit
To share an idea with someone as soon as you conceive it
Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer.
[Surrender to the truth in the very moment you realize you are resisting.]
As your mind becomes more silent you hear more noise.
[If someone's persuading you to buy something, you probably don't need it.]
[If you have no solution, the problem is already solved.]
Neither closed nor with expectations. To be open without attachment to specific outcomes.
[When making a complicated point, start with an example. When making a very complicated point, start with many examples.]
[Republicans don't really care about medical marijuana for its own sake: opposing it is a way to affirm membership in their tribe.]
[Trumps Law: when convincing people who are notoriously inconvincable, use tribal signals to sound like your one of them.]
[Bring up and diffuse counterarguments before your opponents.]
[When writing for a hostile audience, evaluate each sentence for how it sounds taken out of context so as to be prepared when someone eventually does this.]
I don't need to wait for the right moment or be in a special position. Bringing myself to a state is itself the process. I can always pause, reflect, observe.
[Use municipal infrastructure, like libraries, as hosts for technological infrastructure and points of access to federated systems.]
[Go together through every single feature and every button that can be pressed.]
[Welcome new people to the social media instance as you would at your house party: saying a few words about them, introduce them to everyone.]
[Convincing individuals to switch is nearly impossible because of network effects. Bring the whole community over instead: this way they already know many people.]
Being result-oriented puts value on finishing, and so everything not 'finished' accumulates more dissatisfaction and stress. Being process-oriented puts value on movement, and so every opportunity, even the smallest one, is cause to celebrate.
Finishing is binary.
The passage of time affords reflection, which can decrease the likelihood of following through on bad ideas.
Esa noche, en la cena, el supuesto Aureliano Segundo desmigajó el pan con la mano derecha y comó la sopa con la izquierda. Su hermano gemelo, el supuesto José Arcadio Segundo, desmigajó el pan con la mano izquierda y tomó la sopa con la derecha. Era tan precisa la coordinación de sus movimientos que no parecían dos hermanos sentados el uno frente al otro, sino un artificio de espejos.
To say "I could be enjoying the surprise but instead I regret that its over" versus "I regret that its over but I could be enjoying the surprise".
In the same way you can say 'Never stop listening to the language, bring yourself back' you can say 'Keep listening to what your body wants, Always be centered in the body, Follow it where it wants to go, See what it feels like doing'
Planting seeds implies working in many contexts, being patient, not sitting awaiting leaves to spawn. It's about putting things out and forgetting, moving on, allowing yourself to be surprised.
