One of the threads that led me to Psychopolitica starts with a compulsive re-writing of to-do lists, which, at one moment in life, I used to do to avoid doing what these lists described.
Once, after taking a sad look at a stack of very similar lists that didnât have any elements crossed out or checked off, I decided to treat the next one as an art projectâa creative exercise which Iâd consider worthwhile even if it wasnât practical.
The idea was that (a) even if this list, like itâs predecessors, doesn't make me do the things on it, at least I wouldnât feel bad about the time I spend making it; and (b) maybe it would become a way to âcultivate intentionâ, actually making the doing of the things more likely.
Both (a) and (b) worked (within limitations), and I started doing this regularly.
Now, instead of stacks of identical useless to-do lists, I had a handful of different-looking, a little more useful leaflets of sorts, which even acquired a title: âNormalno delaiâ is the first half of aâŚ
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