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Marek Bennett's avatar

💙🌟 Thanks for the overview of all this work... It's so helpful to think "defensively" about the fragmented calendar, & carefully carve out times w/o immediate time pressure, for attending fully to The Work!

Roberta Bertozzi's avatar

I find this distinction between pressure and fragmentation very strong. Pressure can sometimes focus the work, but only when there is already a structure protecting the vision. Without that protection, it becomes only noise.

Scientists & Poets's avatar

Wonderful insights and a chance to remember walking through The Gates.

Kuch's avatar

Thank you for this! It's exactly what I needed to read right now.

Marie's avatar

Reminds me of something I heard the week before I retired: "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

Beth Raps's avatar

Amen! Even Lewitt's solution to the creativity-under-pressure problem was an example of creativity--brilliant! I am against busyness. Formally. Creativity is the lifeblood of my business, and busyness destroys it. I wrote this post to affirm myself and create a space for me to work that is self-respecting while explaining to all my people why I am, on principle, never busy: https://raisingclarity.com/2019/07/promise-never-busy/

Shagun Singh's avatar

Thanks for your post. Refusing busyness definitely requires courage.

Beth Raps's avatar

It really does. It's totally absurd, Shagun, that we should have to take such a stance. Your post is brilliant.