TLDR; Whether as a control or time to revel, take a pause
There’s the classic example & advice of waiting a day: you get an email at work, type up your response in a blaze of fury, hit send, instantly regret it. You probably should’ve waited a day.
Then there’s Jerry Seinfeld.
Jerry (as if we’re buddies on first name basis) has the same rule for his writing, but with a completely different intention. In his words, from his conversation with Tim Ferriss:
Never talk to anyone about what you wrote that day, that day. You have to wait 24 hours to ever say anything to anyone about what you did, because you never want to take away that wonderful, happy feeling that you did that very difficult thing that you tried to do, that you accomplished it, you wrote. You sat down and down and wrote.
Same advice, wait a day, but a completely different intention.
It made me wonder how often we rob ourselves of our own happiness, simply for the chance at external validation.
When is the last time you reveled in your work, let alone created extra space for it?
See you Monday.