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<blockquote data-quote="H1N1" data-source="post: 1090118" data-attributes="member: 7586">Another thing that I have been doing recently, that I think has been helpful in becoming a more attentive and thoughtful person, is to write each night. I try to reflect on the days events, both little and large. This has encouraged me to pay more attention to the world around me as I go about my daily tasks, and to try to strike on certain observations that provoke some feeling in me when I record them. It also helps me make much more of the books I'm reading, as it encourages me to try to have 'original' thoughts about them. I am too early in the process to have reaped any significant benefit from it yet, but I do feel that I am more engaged as a result of this, and increasingly so. I am struck, as much as anything, by how easy it is for me to go a day, or several days, with only surface level thinking. I suspect this is true for a great many people. We fall into a rhythm of simply pottering through our lives, and it takes something really seismic to provoke any kind of depth of feeling, or the kind of sustained contemplation that we might take something lasting from. The process of recording, and taking time to write about the mundane, has helped me look more deliberately at the world around me. In looking closer, I have already found that there is a great deal more to be interested in than I had appreciated. Funnily enough I've found this a useful exercise for getting out of my head.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="H1N1, post: 1090118, member: 7586"] Another thing that I have been doing recently, that I think has been helpful in becoming a more attentive and thoughtful person, is to write each night. I try to reflect on the days events, both little and large. This has encouraged me to pay more attention to the world around me as I go about my daily tasks, and to try to strike on certain observations that provoke some feeling in me when I record them. It also helps me make much more of the books I'm reading, as it encourages me to try to have 'original' thoughts about them. I am too early in the process to have reaped any significant benefit from it yet, but I do feel that I am more engaged as a result of this, and increasingly so. I am struck, as much as anything, by how easy it is for me to go a day, or several days, with only surface level thinking. I suspect this is true for a great many people. We fall into a rhythm of simply pottering through our lives, and it takes something really seismic to provoke any kind of depth of feeling, or the kind of sustained contemplation that we might take something lasting from. The process of recording, and taking time to write about the mundane, has helped me look more deliberately at the world around me. In looking closer, I have already found that there is a great deal more to be interested in than I had appreciated. Funnily enough I've found this a useful exercise for getting out of my head. [/QUOTE]

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