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Daniel Aboul-Hassan's avatar

“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing” - Ron Swanson

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A year or two ago I read Jenny Odell's "How to do Nothing", and it had a profound impact on me. I've always been the person to say "yes" and tackle every project. Now, I'm more and more saying "no". A colleague asked if I wanted to do a presentation on...something at a conference. I told her that I didn't have the mental bandwidth for it. She replied, "Yeah I wouldn't do it either. Okay." And that was that

This is something I've been trying to impress upon my students. We discuss readings about hustle culture and we read Odell. But, it clashes with their reality where they have to work to help support their parents, and they're the first in their family to go to college so they have to take a full schedule of classes, but then they're falling asleep in those classes....It's a lot. I hope in our discussions they learn to carve out space for themselves and to burrow

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