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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Book by Jenny Odell · 5 quotes · Identity, Change, Aging

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“The happiest, most fulfilled moments of my life have been when I was completely aware of being alive, with all the hope, pain, and sorrow that that entails for any mortal being.”

Life Alive Living

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“If we're able to leave room for the encounters that will change us in ways we can't yet see, we can also acknowledge that we are each a confluence of forces that exceed our own understanding.”

Growth Change Identity Humility Transformation Self Awareness Complexity Openness

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“Over the years I've noticed that, on hearing birds that are out of sight, I've gone from asking "What's there?" to "Who's there?”

Nature Change Awareness Identity Perspective Mindfulness Aging Connection

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“When I worry about the birds, I am also worrying about watching all my possible selves go extinct. And when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths.”

Loss Identity Vulnerability Extinction Environmentalism Inner Life Selfhood Connection To Nature

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“Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn't occur somehow inside of me, but between what I perceive as me and not-me.”

Philosophy Consciousness Identity Perception Thought Introspection Epistemology Self Vs Other

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