#41 Which Activities Make Time Disappear
In this Question and Quote episode, Arnold Beekes asks: which activities in your real life make time disappear and leave you feeling more like yourself? He suggests starting a list, anything from cooking a meal to walking a dog, talking with a friend or reading a great book. He stresses “real life,” meaning not three hours of scrolling, and says to keep the list for a month or two without rushing. Once you have five or six activities, look at what the list tells you and how it makes you feel. The quote is “If you think that there is a quick fix for major problems, be sure that the fast food mentality has taken over your life. The only instant gratification is from daily learning and effort.” Arnold links it to a culture of instant gratification, quick fixes and dopamine hits. He shares an example from when he lived in Budapest, where a university hosted weekly talks by the ambassadors of the main Middle Eastern countries. He went wondering why a few weeks and some clever people couldn’t solve the conflict, and came away realising it is far more complicated than he thought, with history and religion behind it as well as emotion. He values giving people a stage to share their point of view, since the ambassadors also listened to each other’s talks.
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Welcome, I'm Arnold Beekhuis and this is the question and quote version of the Between the Ears podcast. The goal is to enable you to unleash and use your uniqueness. Question.
Which activities in your real life make time disappear and leave you feeling more like yourself? So which activities in your real life makes time disappear and leave you feeling more like yourself? I suggest you start to create a list and literally put on the list those activities. And it can be anything like cooking a meal, walking a dog, talking with a friend, reading a great book. Why I added the word in your real life, I don't mean your digital life.
So it's not like I've been scrolling for three hours and time disappeared. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking activities in your real life and where you have the feeling you're more like yourself.
So I suggest you keep this list for a month, maybe two months. Take your time. There's no rush because it might be the case that not every day or every few days you say, well, I don't feel like it.
That's fine. There's no problem. So take a longer period of time to create your list.
And then once you finish that list, so suppose there are five, six activities on that list, then analyze it. Have a look at it. How does it make you feel? What does it tell you that list? So enjoy making that list.
It's something which helps you to have a better life between the ears. It's a little bit longer quote, which I wrote down. But it's very important, especially in this day and age of instant gratification, quick fixes, dopamine hits.
Well, everything what I discussed already about the social media thing. But I think it's an epidemic which flows over in other areas. So the quote is, if you think that there is a quick fix for major problems.
Be sure that the fast food mentality has taken over your life. The only instant gratification is from daily learning and effort. So I repeat, if you think that there's a quick fix for major problems.
Be sure that the fast food mentality has taken over your life. The only instant gratification is from daily learning and effort. Let me quickly share an example.
What I experienced myself. A few years ago, when I lived in Budapest, one of the universities there organized a series of sessions. With as speakers, the ambassadors of all the main countries in the Middle East.
So like Israel, Jordan, Lebanon. Yeah, well, all the major countries there. And then each week, one of these ambassadors would give a talk about their perspective.
And especially also the historic perspective of what's happening in the Middle East. And I went there and I was like, why can't we solve this problem? I think just a few weeks and some really good people together. And why can't we solve this Middle East thing more quickly? And why don't we solve it in any case? So with that in my mind, I went to those sessions a few weeks.
And I totally had to change my opinion. Because especially the historic perspective, the current perspective, which each of these, some of them were ambassadors. Which they gave on the situation.
I was like, oh, the situation is far more complicated than I thought. And there is, it's not only, well, of course, there's emotion behind it. But it's not only emotion, it's history, it's religion, it's all kinds of things which are behind it.
And I'm like, oh, now I totally understand why this is taking such a long time. So I behaved like that. It's like, there should be a quick fix, just a few weeks, some clever people and we'll solve it.
No, it's not true. It's totally not true. You have to understand the different perspectives.
And I think it was, well, unfortunately, nothing got out of it. But I think it's very useful to have these sessions. Because, for instance, when the ambassador of Jordan had a talk, some of the other ambassadors were also listening.
Just like myself. So I think that's very useful to give people a stage and give their point of view. Please remember, we need your uniqueness.
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