Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal Material: Plaster Collection: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea,MNAC, Museu do Chiado ABOUT THE WORK Obra realizada no início de carreira, revela um quase total alheamento da escultura moderna. É na continuidade de um oitocentismo neoclassicizante de visão simbolista que esta peça poderá ser entendida, apesar do anacronismo precoce a que circunscreve a Leopoldo de Almeida.
All of our approval AND complaints about “modern life” are created by us - not by the pace or tools or requirements of modern life. We are the ones sending email, playing video games, creating and reading social media. sending email that clogs our inboxes.
I subscribe to the Manager Tools newsletter (and podcast), and this week’s entry talks about the busy “pace of life” in Victorian England - how contestants in a reality show discovered that things were just as busy then as they are now. (Yes, there were different sources of “busy-ness”, but they were still all around.)
The thing is, for the large part, we choose to do the things we do. I don’t have to spend hours of my day ensuring the house stays warm in the winter, which gives me time to do plenty of other things that are available to me. Are they required? Must I fill every minute of my day with video, audio, reading, game playing? Must the pace of my day be harried? Or can I relax and enjoy some time to focus? Even in a work environment where people assign work to me, it doesn’t mean I must do it now and break focus. If I choose to do so, this ends up feeding into the cycle of feeling overwhelmed.
Recognizing the problem is the first step in resolving it.
[Yes, I recognize some privilege here. But if I make the time to write and read this kind of material, I likely have the opportunity to decide what gets dropped in order to enjoy some thoughtful reading. ]