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Sloww Sunday Newsletter 237 (May 31, 2026) — Caring More vs Caring Less, Should vs Must, & More
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🤯 Are you questioning your assumptions and expectations?
“When a person encounters something that does not fit with his or her expectations of how things should be based on past experience, the choices are to reject the unexpected or to question the expectation … You encounter problems in which the old ways of thinking and reacting simply don’t work. And, you become aware that they don’t work, and you get really upset and frustrated and emotional about it because something isn’t working for you … Often, emotional disturbance is the key to having a really successful transformative learning experience. If somebody really feels that they can’t use an old way of thinking, they’re going to have to open themselves up to a new way … The central concept that I’m really interested in, in the context of adult learning, has to do with critical reflection of assumptions.” — Jack Mezirow
Source: Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning by Jack Mezirow (Book Summary)
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🤔 Where can you care more, and where can you care less?
“Author and slow-living advocate Erin Loechner told me that to her, slow living is a duality of caring more and caring less—that is, working out what’s worth caring more about and letting go of the things that aren’t … Slow living is a curious mix of being prepared and being prepared to let go. Caring more and caring less. Saying yes and saying no. Being present and walking away. Doing the important things and forgetting those that aren’t. Grounded and free. Heavy and light. Organized and flexible. Complex and simple.” — Brooke McAlary
Source: Slow by Brooke McAlary (Book Summary)
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↔️ Are you living based on ‘should’ or ‘must’?
“Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It’s that which calls to us most deeply. It’s our convictions, our passions, our deepest held urges and desires—unavoidable, undeniable, and inexplicable. Unlike Should, Must doesn’t accept compromises … It is constant effort and hard work—and inexplicably life-affirming—to honor who you are, what you believe, and why you are here. To choose Must is the greatest thing you can do with your life because this congruent, rooted way of living shines through everything that you do.” — Elle Luna
Source: The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna (Book Summary)
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☘️ Think you’re having bad luck?
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy
Source: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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☯️ Are you aware of the ‘Big I’ creating through you?
“When we repeat, ‘I create, I create, I create,’ soon we forget who is actually the ‘I’ which creates the various things; we soon forget about God. This is the danger of human culture. Actually, to create with the ‘big I’ is to give; we cannot create and own what we create for ourselves since everything was created by God … If we are aware that what we do or what we create is really the gift of the ‘big I,’ then we will not be attached to it, and we will not create problems for ourselves or for others.” — Shunryu Suzuki
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Kyle Kowalski
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