Expand Your World: Making The Storm Look Small (derived from Marc Lesser's Substack newsletter ZenBones)
When you expand your world, you gain perspective.
Ways to expand your world:
Step into history. Read about another era. The noise of today echoes the noise of yesterday. Realizing this can soften the drama of the present.
Engage the natural world. Spend time with mountains, oceans, or trees. Their timescale makes political storms seem brief.
Broaden your inputs. Balance political reading with art, poetry, science, or stories of other cultures. Nourish your imagination.
Expanding your world doesn't make current events disappear—it places them in context.