Prompt 1 min read

Routine

Cyanotype of scientific equipment in a large room draped with cloth
Source

Routine expands time.

When we make suggestions to ourselves instead of making a decision, we lose the robustness and mindspace that consistency opens up.

Maximizing one’s space of generative thinking supports all present and future endeavors.

It is tempting to look for signals of vitality in external achievements, but nothing happens in the outside world without first passing through an inner world.

Newsletter

Critical Business School, by email: essays, prompts, and new podcast episodes.

More
Essays
Not All Technology Is Digital
Technology usually refers to devices. Screens, models, software, the things that need charging. That definition is too narrow to be useful, and it hides most of what a
Essays
Meditate, Then Mediate
Leadership is usually described as something that happens between people. Much of it happens earlier, in the time spent working out what you think. Mediating and meditating are
Essays
How to Play
Play is the most serious thing a creative person does.
Essays
How To, or How Do I?
Value is a combination of utility and aesthetics, a protocol and a way of seeing. Which of your two terms is empty?