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Sep
30
How To Use New York
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Most people don’t seem to know how to use New York properly. Almost everyone I meet here seems to fall into one of two categories: either they’re engaged in that cliched daily material-struggle, desperately trying to live up to what they think the city demands them to be. Or, they’re way over-engaged, hoovering up experiences without allowing the space and time for them to be savoured properly (I know I’m often guilty of the latter).
When we have infinite choice, infinite opportunity, infinite information (digital world), it takes great strength to start to choose between things and narrow down the focus of your experience, but there comes a point at which the need for quality of experience over quantity of experience demands that choice.
That’s the beauty of a big city; there is so much choice that when you do finally decide what you want, it’s there, ready and waiting.
But the beauty of a big city is also its downfall; infinite possibility can become a trap, not an opportunity.
Same is true with music.
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