learn to find something of worth even in the mundane. they’re there.
If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.
What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.
That quote might be half flying above my head, and it feels a lot like a caricature to me. I got through the original speech and it still doesn't resonate, but I'm also not a Kenyon graduate and don't share any of that background.
But I appreciate having been exposed to that corner of culture.
being an american undergraduate has very little to do with it, or to my original point, which is that finding the transcendent in the mundane is a good idea.
from Auden:
“Not to lose time, not to get caught, Not to be left behind, not, please! to resemble The beasts who repeat themselves, or a thing like water Or stone whose conduct can be predicted, these Are our common prayer, whose greatest comfort is music Which can be made anywhere, is invisible, And does not smell.”