over ten years of mindfulness practice and I don’t seem to have seen a lick of improvement.

I suppose some days are just like that.

anyway.

you should study more art. I think I wrote about this recently, but it bears repeating: composition — understanding what constitutes A Thing, predominantly in an artistic sense — is the key to visualization, and visualization is the key to actualization.

There are many ways to study composition: painting, photography, music, interior design, cooking, sculpting, charcoal drawing. there’s several million ways to do it, just pick one that calls to you.

I have an old tweet somewhere that reads along the lines of “cleanliness is next to godliness; not for literal hygienic reasons, but because cleanliness is synonymous with being organized.”

to understand the composition of A Thing is to understand its organization. you are able to both observe The Parts and The Whole.

good art. sound logic. tasty food. clean living spaces. physical health. these are all the results of Good Composition.