The New York Times: a paradox essential to civilization
“How you can force yourself to relax? How can you try not to try?
It makes no sense, but the paradox is essential to civilization, according to Edward Slingerland. He has developed, quite deliberately, a theory of spontaneity based on millenniums of Asian philosophy and decades of research by psychologists and neuroscientists.”
John Tierney, “A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying,” The New York Times, December 15th, 2014.