I just finished reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari and this is one of the closing lines. It really hit home for me, as I’ve been working to deliberately cultivate what I attend to and what I ignore.
Part of the difficulty is that knowing is a dynamic process — sometimes it’s important to attend to the very things we should ignore other times and vice versa. Tonight, as I sit here finishing this caption to post first thing tomorrow, I’m going to use my power to ignore the last 100 or so words I feel like I should write and attend to some self-care (see: take a shower, go to bed before midnight) because I think the truth is that is most important right now.