Field Notes
A few thoughts, slowly written, on anticipation, memory, attention, and the moments worth keeping. New entries every so often.
Why looking forward to something can feel even better than the thing itself, and how to stop letting the wait slip by unnoticed.
Read field note →The anticipation is real while it's happening. Then the event arrives and overwrites it. Here's why memory does that, and what to do about it.
Read field note →Post-vacation blues are real, and the science of how long good feelings last after a peak experience is more interesting than it sounds.
Read field note →A small reframe that changes the feeling of waiting. Less subtraction, more accumulation.
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