Agreed. I deleted everything from my substack after I got exhausted from trying to force myself to write for no other reason than 'self-improvement' or to 'get ahead' whatever that means.
Now I've started writing a book on the side that's taking forever, but I'm enjoying the process. Every time I try something however, my first thought is still always to grind, pump out content and maximise along some arbitrary metric. Changing mindset isn't easy.
Just thought I'd check out some of your posts since I keep coming across your notes.
Hey thanks so much for the comment here :) I really love this one haha. Looking back I’m glad I wrote it because I needed to hear it today.
I do think it’s hard to escape the “productivity” mindset of our culture. But our Lord doesn’t want a life of grindset maxxing, I can’t believe that’s true. He wants us to align our will to His!!!
Anyway glad my writing is interesting to you. I’m curious what your book is about?
No problem! I probably needed to hear this years ago when I wouldn't have listened.
I'm not Christian myself but the more I look into Orthodoxy the more I find that a handful of people who aren't nutcases about 'their thing'. Only a handful, but its better than nothing.
Right now the idea is to write in the style of an epic, but rather than killing the dragon, or going on some odyssey, it would be about family. I guess there will still be monsters of some sort. Maybe there's a name for that. It seems to me that the world needs something like this right now.
Agreed. I deleted everything from my substack after I got exhausted from trying to force myself to write for no other reason than 'self-improvement' or to 'get ahead' whatever that means.
Now I've started writing a book on the side that's taking forever, but I'm enjoying the process. Every time I try something however, my first thought is still always to grind, pump out content and maximise along some arbitrary metric. Changing mindset isn't easy.
Just thought I'd check out some of your posts since I keep coming across your notes.
Hey thanks so much for the comment here :) I really love this one haha. Looking back I’m glad I wrote it because I needed to hear it today.
I do think it’s hard to escape the “productivity” mindset of our culture. But our Lord doesn’t want a life of grindset maxxing, I can’t believe that’s true. He wants us to align our will to His!!!
Anyway glad my writing is interesting to you. I’m curious what your book is about?
No problem! I probably needed to hear this years ago when I wouldn't have listened.
I'm not Christian myself but the more I look into Orthodoxy the more I find that a handful of people who aren't nutcases about 'their thing'. Only a handful, but its better than nothing.
Right now the idea is to write in the style of an epic, but rather than killing the dragon, or going on some odyssey, it would be about family. I guess there will still be monsters of some sort. Maybe there's a name for that. It seems to me that the world needs something like this right now.