Metadata
- Author: Jordan Fisher Smith
- Full Title:: How to Wander
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Happiness
- URL:: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-wander-in-a-world-that-values-purpose?utm_source=rss-feed
- Finished date:: 2023-04-23
Highlights
In a peer-reviewed study, published in 2020, a team of psychologists and neuroscientists set out to correlate the extent to which individuals wander from their usual haunts with their level of happiness (View Highlight)
The outcome: those who ranged widely and unexpectedly were happier. (View Highlight)
To walk in Woolf’s footsteps, think of something you didn’t know you needed, but having thought of it, you really must have it – a legendary sheep’s milk cheese, a silver cigarette case or an out-of-print book – then go in search of it. The object itself is just a poor excuse (View Highlight)
To try one of her dérive exercises, go for a walk and record where you are drawn, and where you are repelled, in a notebook or in photos taken with your phone. Why might you be experiencing those emotions and behaviours? How did the architecture, topography and space affect your experience? How does that relate to class, gender, race, ability and other markers of identity? (View Highlight)