“Rut a tut tut. . ."
Part of being human is the ability to pause. I used to work for Mr. Carl and he said something like, "Gregory, the difference between you and your cat is that you can pause. Your cat is all STIMULUS-RESPONSE, but you can add a pause in there." He'd stomp the floor and tell me that a cat hears it and jumps, but we can pause for a sec and ask ourselves, "why is he stomping?"
As the year comes to an end, consider where you've lost your pause. Where you've turned into the cat and simply respond to a regular, repeating stimulus. Add a pause. Ask yourself, "why am I doing this, in this way? Where did this come from?"
Pause.
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