My default response, which belies even how much I've been conditioned by society to seek efficiency, is *"oh, I hear you. Once you get used to it though it doesn't feel like much effort. It's also faster to clean up!"*
When people look at my tea and coffee setup, they ooh and they ahh, but always. Almost always however, the next thing that comes out of their mouth is: *"oh but I don't have time for this. do it like this and this at home cause it's faster."* *"It just takes too much time and energy."*
I'm not really against optimization. And the act of optimizing is innately rewarding. But I question, as I look at my own ever-growing list of to-dos, everytime I eke out more time, am I once again going down the path of forgetting to be human?
Or should we flip it? That being productive is NOT good. Harms the environment etc.
**When in reality, I don't care that it takes longer. I WANT it to take longer. That's kind of the whole point of brewing for me. to help me slow down.**
Work can wait.
Life can't.
I enjoy the space it helps me make in life. A breather.
**"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the grit of paying attention."**-*Julia Cameron*
it takes me 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds to grind coffee? Great! That's 1m 50s I'm NOT working.
I want it to take up time in my life, that's how I draw out the experience. I can feel the grinding of the coffee, smell the grounds as it brews... in that moment, I'm attentive, I'm connected.
Immersing, even drowning yourself in the process is a lovely feeling. Psychology calls it flow.
And now I can't help but think, maybe we need a new metric for measuring time well spent. Not by quantity of tasks done but quality if experience
## //stop trying to finish everything
I stopped trying to finish everything. What gets done gets done.
What can be finished will get finished
Once you've done something you know how long it does go on for
And you can plan around it
But if much of life is stuff you don't really have an idea of how long the tasks take. Like me right now...it's easy to plan poorly and feel like a failure.
My default response, which belies even how much I've been conditioned by society to seek efficiency, is *"oh, I hear you. Once you get used to it though it doesn't feel like much effort. It's also faster to clean up!"*
When people look at my tea and coffee setup, they ooh and they ahh, but always. Almost always however, the next thing that comes out of their mouth is: *"oh but I don't have time for this. do it like this and this at home cause it's faster."* *"It just takes too much time and energy."*
I'm not really against optimization. And the act of optimizing is innately rewarding. But I question, as I look at my own ever-growing list of to-dos, everytime I eke out more time, am I once again going down the path of forgetting to be human?
Or should we flip it? That being productive is NOT good. Harms the environment etc.
**When in reality, I don't care that it takes longer. I WANT it to take longer. That's kind of the whole point of brewing for me. to help me slow down.**
Work can wait.
Life can't.
I enjoy the space it helps me make in life. A breather.
**"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the grit of paying attention."**-*Julia Cameron*
it takes me 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds to grind coffee? Great! That's 1m 50s I'm NOT working.
I want it to take up time in my life, that's how I draw out the experience. I can feel the grinding of the coffee, smell the grounds as it brews... in that moment, I'm attentive, I'm connected.
Immersing, even drowning yourself in the process is a lovely feeling. Psychology calls it flow.
And now I can't help but think, maybe we need a new metric for measuring time well spent. Not by quantity of tasks done but quality if experience
## //stop trying to finish everything
I stopped trying to finish everything. What gets done gets done.
What can be finished will get finished
Once you've done something you know how long it does go on for
And you can plan around it
But if much of life is stuff you don't really have an idea of how long the tasks take. Like me right now...it's easy to plan poorly and feel like a failure.