Came across this on Twitter and I support this endeavor 100%. I also kind of spontaneously did this "5 hour" thing today: I saw Rachel Cusk had a new story out, so in order to give it my full attention, I started the day with it. No phone, email or anything. I was so entranced by the story that I started writing about it. This led me to some of my other current touchstones (Tarkovsky and Paul Schrader). After about 3 hours I took a walk, then made lunch, then was back at it for...ya, maybe 2 hours, so there's your 5 hours. Not quite done yet. Looking forward to your next post.
A graduate student who needs five good hours every day till 14th June to turn in four term papers. Thank you for the post. I'll try to follow the idea, one day at a time.
I would like to cleave the word discipline in two, to more effectively differentiate between that which seeks to stifle, obliterate, and smother from that which seeks to sustain life.
Love this and tbh I feel like if I get five good hours of work done a day it’s a major accomplishment. Gotta save the rest of my time for frolicking, chores, socializing, reading, watching movies etc
A word I use which for me means self-discipline but in a gentler, more compassionate and also verb-ish way, is *intention*--sometimes to set but usually just as an answer to the question, what *is* my intention, here and now. It also literally embodies the spiritual because, I confess, it's one of the eight-fold noble path's constituents, in the form of *wise* intention.
Came across this on Twitter and I support this endeavor 100%. I also kind of spontaneously did this "5 hour" thing today: I saw Rachel Cusk had a new story out, so in order to give it my full attention, I started the day with it. No phone, email or anything. I was so entranced by the story that I started writing about it. This led me to some of my other current touchstones (Tarkovsky and Paul Schrader). After about 3 hours I took a walk, then made lunch, then was back at it for...ya, maybe 2 hours, so there's your 5 hours. Not quite done yet. Looking forward to your next post.
I wish my five good hours didn't come in random, impossible-to-predict 30-minute spurts throughout the day—but I'll take it!
indeed, that IS the problem. The brain wants to think and produce when it wants, not when you would like to do it, or COULD do it.
A graduate student who needs five good hours every day till 14th June to turn in four term papers. Thank you for the post. I'll try to follow the idea, one day at a time.
I would like to cleave the word discipline in two, to more effectively differentiate between that which seeks to stifle, obliterate, and smother from that which seeks to sustain life.
- https://dagwoodcrabtree.substack.com/p/born-kind-notes-on-life-affirming
Love this and tbh I feel like if I get five good hours of work done a day it’s a major accomplishment. Gotta save the rest of my time for frolicking, chores, socializing, reading, watching movies etc
A word I use which for me means self-discipline but in a gentler, more compassionate and also verb-ish way, is *intention*--sometimes to set but usually just as an answer to the question, what *is* my intention, here and now. It also literally embodies the spiritual because, I confess, it's one of the eight-fold noble path's constituents, in the form of *wise* intention.
So good to read this. I might print it out and put it on my computer screen to look at first thing (and set the timer).
I hope more people give this a shot! I’m taking my first pass at it today. Let me know if you try and how it goes?
I will!