Interesting take by Oliver Burkeman. I'm one of those with a large to-read pile. My personal library is a symbol of my aspiration. It tells me the gap between who I am today and who i want to be in the future. Those unread books i have chosen based on a future image of mine. That much is personal. But i don't know exactly the life of my future self, so i make approximations. I imagine and i project and on the basis of that i make choices today for tomorrow. I also imitate those who are closer to my aspirational position. There's a tension between the values i already have and the values i think my aspirational self should have. I'm striving to bridge that gal. As the philosopher Agnes Callard says, this is the process of becoming. It is *supposed to* cause strife.
Now there's a caveat. I may not look at my unread fiction pile the same way as my unread non-fiction pile. I may not think, oh these hours of pleasure I'm depriving myself of by ignoring all these stories.
Loved the take on frames. I'm currently spending time on how to construct winning decision frames and one insight from John Salvatier's piece that i haven't found anywhere else really is that the frame with which we see the world can be so obvious as to be transparent. Making our frames explicit does two things: it helps others see how we see the world and it helps them point out what is hidden from us.
Interesting take by Oliver Burkeman. I'm one of those with a large to-read pile. My personal library is a symbol of my aspiration. It tells me the gap between who I am today and who i want to be in the future. Those unread books i have chosen based on a future image of mine. That much is personal. But i don't know exactly the life of my future self, so i make approximations. I imagine and i project and on the basis of that i make choices today for tomorrow. I also imitate those who are closer to my aspirational position. There's a tension between the values i already have and the values i think my aspirational self should have. I'm striving to bridge that gal. As the philosopher Agnes Callard says, this is the process of becoming. It is *supposed to* cause strife.
Now there's a caveat. I may not look at my unread fiction pile the same way as my unread non-fiction pile. I may not think, oh these hours of pleasure I'm depriving myself of by ignoring all these stories.
Loved the take on frames. I'm currently spending time on how to construct winning decision frames and one insight from John Salvatier's piece that i haven't found anywhere else really is that the frame with which we see the world can be so obvious as to be transparent. Making our frames explicit does two things: it helps others see how we see the world and it helps them point out what is hidden from us.