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I had this recommended to me by someone when I did my last set of writing prompts. I figure I'll post the top URL here so you can read them all at your leisure and I'll work through them as I can. I have a bunch of other things that I've been holding back on posting and maybe getting some random writing done will help with that. Here we go...
It's sort of ironically funny to find myself writing-blocked by a writing prompt. Like, I've puzzled over this for a while and I'm having a very hard time coming up with examples.
If I break it down I can consider it through different categories. For example, physical objects. I have lots of junk - that is, stuff I own that I don't find valuable. But for most of those things other people generally would agree that the junk is ... well, if not actually worthless it's things I could dispense with. I doubt I'd ever go into some kind of minimalist lifestyle entirely but I could stand to decruft a considerable amount. Part of what makes it harder to decruft is that I hate just creating trash, and finding someone who'd value the things I want to be rid of is rare.
There are lots of things (material) that other people own and find valuable. Some of them I want, and I get them. Some I don't, and don't.
Maybe the question is more abstract - consider qualities, or habits. I know there are lots of good reasons to, say, exercise more or eat vegetarian. It's not that I don't recognize the value in those things. I do them because I (intellectually) recognize they have some value. I do them a lot less than I should in part because I haven't personally connected with the value. These days there are lots of articles appearing on how to make habit change "stick". Recognizing that people tend to regress to baseline, even when they know that baseline isn't great, means you need to take a different approach than just issuing dicta "Eat better!" "Exercise more!"
In the last set of prompts I talked off and on about interpersonal qualities. Ways of talking, thinking, or relating to other people. Here, too, I do some of these things but less than I should. Honestly, I don't know why. I don't think it's because I don't recognize the value. It's some combination of "old dog, new tricks" and the difference between abstractly recognizing the value in a thing and having internalized it to the point of it being one of my values.
There, I wrote a thing. Maybe I'll write more things. If you encourage me that's more likely. Or discourage me if you think that's appropriate - I won't be offended.
I had this recommended to me by someone when I did my last set of writing prompts. I figure I'll post the top URL here so you can read them all at your leisure and I'll work through them as I can. I have a bunch of other things that I've been holding back on posting and maybe getting some random writing done will help with that. Here we go...
What is something you have or are pursuing, that other people say is worthwhile, but you haven’t found valuable? Do you continue to pursue it based on the promises of others?
It's sort of ironically funny to find myself writing-blocked by a writing prompt. Like, I've puzzled over this for a while and I'm having a very hard time coming up with examples.
If I break it down I can consider it through different categories. For example, physical objects. I have lots of junk - that is, stuff I own that I don't find valuable. But for most of those things other people generally would agree that the junk is ... well, if not actually worthless it's things I could dispense with. I doubt I'd ever go into some kind of minimalist lifestyle entirely but I could stand to decruft a considerable amount. Part of what makes it harder to decruft is that I hate just creating trash, and finding someone who'd value the things I want to be rid of is rare.
There are lots of things (material) that other people own and find valuable. Some of them I want, and I get them. Some I don't, and don't.
Maybe the question is more abstract - consider qualities, or habits. I know there are lots of good reasons to, say, exercise more or eat vegetarian. It's not that I don't recognize the value in those things. I do them because I (intellectually) recognize they have some value. I do them a lot less than I should in part because I haven't personally connected with the value. These days there are lots of articles appearing on how to make habit change "stick". Recognizing that people tend to regress to baseline, even when they know that baseline isn't great, means you need to take a different approach than just issuing dicta "Eat better!" "Exercise more!"
In the last set of prompts I talked off and on about interpersonal qualities. Ways of talking, thinking, or relating to other people. Here, too, I do some of these things but less than I should. Honestly, I don't know why. I don't think it's because I don't recognize the value. It's some combination of "old dog, new tricks" and the difference between abstractly recognizing the value in a thing and having internalized it to the point of it being one of my values.
There, I wrote a thing. Maybe I'll write more things. If you encourage me that's more likely. Or discourage me if you think that's appropriate - I won't be offended.
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Date: 2019-03-14 09:33 pm (UTC)I would have lots of answers to this question, starting with meditation. And continuing into a really regular sleep schedule.
Re: Comment Catcher: A Dollar a Question
Date: 2019-03-15 12:13 am (UTC)True. But it's also true that one person's trash is another person's treasure.
I would have lots of answers to this question, starting with meditation. And continuing into a really regular sleep schedule.
As in, those are things you don't see the value of but are pursuing anyway? I hope you'll be inspired to write your own response on your journal.
Re: Comment Catcher: A Dollar a Question
Date: 2019-03-16 03:25 pm (UTC)