Slow Down
Do you, like me, feel the pressure to make lists, achieve goals, aim higher, do more? And if yes, does this get transferred to your children? Try harder. Do your best. Get stuff done. Never slouch around.
What’s striking about the lives of the great thinkers, inventors, artists and pioneers is just how many of them spent a good deal of their time just bumming around, wondering about stuff. Isaac Newton’s story, apocryphal or not, is an example. If he had been rushing around, fixing the plumbing or frantically chopping firewood, he’d never have had the time to sit in that garden at Woolsthorpe under the apple tree and ask why. ‘How do you come up with these great ideas?’ you might ask. ‘By thinking unto them’, he said. And for that, you’ve got to be chilling, not writing lists.
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