Greg McKeown, the author
of Essentialism and a sleep advocate, put it well: You must systematically build sleep into your schedule and prioritize it.
These theoretical references were also the lodestars of a dominant anti-essentialist discourse on how the female and the feminine were socially constructed and you couldn't address Murray's work without dealing with how engaged she was with the basic components of painting — figure and ground, oil on canvas and support, and this was in the dangerous territory
of the essentialism of painting itself.
The fact that such divisions, including new / old media and image / object, were reinforced rather than deconstructed by the arrangement highlighted the double - bind
of essentialism alluded to by Wah in his poem: to hybridize concepts can be to bolster their categorical distinction.
But strategies
of essentialism will always be short - term solutions that risk perpetuating essentialist notions.
Despite this disavowal and thoughtful negotiation
of essentialism by figures like Spivak, Gonzalez - Torres, and Piper, identity politics has been retooled recently by a younger generation of artists and curators.
These artists challenged notions
of essentialism, were «adamant about not being labeled «black» artists,» and posed complex questions about what it means to bring «blackness» into visibility.
The show seeks to explore the breadth and heterogeneity of this noble color rather than function as a kind
of essentialism or distillation.
It reminds me of the idea
of essentialism (Greg McKeown)-- the disciplined pursuit of less.
After establishing your goal, and figuring out the trade - offs, the last and most important aspect
of essentialism is focus: unrelenting, laser - like concentration on that one goal until you've seen it to fruition.
You've decided what your trade - offs will be, which, brings us to the final and most important part
of the essentialism triad: Focus.
Greg McKeown, founder
of essentialism, best - selling author, and inspirational speaker, is all too familiar with the way most of us live.
The first is designed to make people question their own prejudices by explaining the psychological concept
of essentialism.
However, this outcome does not occur often enough because in order to assimilate mythology in this way, students should also be cautioned against the false but pervasive view
of essentialism.
Not exact matches
Greg McKeown's book
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit
of Less is a wonderful deep dive into the art
of saying no by pursuing less.
New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown shares tips from
Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit
of less.
Greg McKeown Author
of the New York Times bestseller
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit
of Less.
«Thomistic
essentialism» - that old chestnut - as opposed to a «dynamic» vision
of life, the universe and everything.
This trend from
essentialism to existentialism does not
of itself conflict with Christianity.
Their existence is obscured by
essentialism because the radical uniqueness
of existence is not recognized.
... (The) trend from
essentialism to existentialism does not
of itself conflict with Christianity.
While both philosophies embrace this qualified
essentialism, it is Whitehead that provides the necessary corrective on the problem
of relations.
It can't be an accident that the most aggressive debunkers
of Jewish
essentialism, including the participants in this story, are generally Jews themselves.»
Forms don't exist in the Mind
of God from all eternity; having denounced Aristotle's
essentialism, I fell into it myself, albeit inadvertently.
As to the former, orientation
essentialism has made ethical philosophy in this realm all but impossible: It has displaced the old marital - procreative principles
of chastity without offering any alternative that is not entirely arbitrary.
First
of all, within orientation
essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct.
Johnson concludes that «there is probably a complex «biology
of sexual orientation,» but there are alos developmental and psychological processes in earl childhood, as well as culturally bound determinants throughout life, that contribute to the way each individual experiences sexual orientation... Therefore, the question
of «
essentialism versus constructivism» (basically, nature vs. nurture) presents us with a false dichotomy.
Medieval Latin / Western theology, formulated in the static philosophical categories
of Plato and Aristotle (Greek
Essentialism), rather than the dynamic philosophical categories
of Heraclitus, often failed to adequately express the complexity
of God's relationship with his people and the transformational affects
of an immanent, usually mediated, Divine Presence had on them.
Later, God the Father takes on the form
of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example
of racial
essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.
For one thing, Whitehead's conception
of selfhood is highly critical
of the pronounced individualism and
essentialism of modern Western religion.
Tools
of Titans, The One Thing, and
Essentialism are all books that deeply influenced my routines and my general philosophy on life.
Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections
of science, or the very
essentialism denied by its proponents.
I really hate to stumble into some kind
of biological
essentialism, because I know not all moms feel that way - even if they had a choice, which many don't, some don't feel that intensely attached to their small babies.
Get your head out
of your navel, look around, maybe get a job, a hobby, something that has nothing to do with biological
essentialism and sending women back to the stone age.
Ellie Knaus, host
of Atomic Moms Podcast — book recommendation:
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit
of Less by Greg McKeown
I actually found the book «Mindful Birthing» more helpful because instead
of being cheesy and full
of biological
essentialism, it was more exercises for relaxation and focusing (which would be helpful in a lot
of situations, not just childbirth).
As to the «politics
of identity» owned or developed as some sort
of USP, that would be disastrous, a retreat into
essentialism.
However, I think Powell's
essentialism is a good part
of the reason why much
of the right was actually rather weak on integration (as opposed to restricting immigration) as important to race relations across the 1960s and 1970s.
Essentialism of this sort erroneously ascribes homogeneity to what in reality are divergent groups with different interests.
The book «
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit
of Less» by Greg McKeown explains the concept
of spreading yourself thin by undertaking too much.
The Australian public ethics professor Clive Hamilton has proposed another line
of defense named «strategic
essentialism» — stating that the science is indisputable for strategic reasons.
Darwin's destruction
of the philosophical stance known as
essentialism led science to reject racism.
Although the ignorant misapplication
of evolutionary theory known as «Social Darwinism» often gets blamed for justifications
of racism, adherence to the disproved
essentialism preceding Darwin in fact can lead to the racist viewpoint.
But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set
of new principles that influence the thinking
of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism;
essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation
of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance
of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.
An overestimate
of the predictive value
of genetic information emanates from genetic
essentialism, the belief that genes are wholly predictive
of diseases, behaviors, or traits [93].
Critics
of the word mansplaining highlight the problems inherent in its usage including
essentialism, double standard and at times a reductive approach to discussion, falling into ad hominem territory.
As each period
of innovation waned, it was usually replaced by a movement called «back to basics» or «
essentialism» - or something else that suggested a backlash against failed fads.
Chapters cover topics such as intersectionality, white privilege,
essentialism, heteronormativity, Christian privilege, and the myth
of meritocracy.
The 4 - Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss The Art
of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau The Suitcase Entrepreneur by Natalie Sisson Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim Be a Free - Range Human by Marianne Cantwell Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Power
of Habit by Charles Duhigg How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie Life After College by Jenny Blake
Croak writes: «Early Modernism in painting, loosely defined as artwork seeking an
essentialism constructed between the late 19th century up until WWII, was an intellectual adventure
of the first order, having its manifestation in philosophy, poetry, sculpture, music and other forms
of reflection.
[61] Art Historian Anna Chave considers the Guerrilla Girls»
essentialism much more profound, leading the group to be «assailed by... a rising generation
of women wise in the ways
of poststructuralist theory, for [their] putative naiveté and susceptibility to
essentialism.»