Pauses in time are often the only thing that can precipitate change

Evidence

This isn’t a new idea, and it also applies over longer periods of time. Most people have, or have known someone who has, gone through some period of “removal” that fundamentally changed their attitude to the world they returned to. Sometimes that’s occasioned by something terrible, like illness or loss, and sometimes it’s voluntary, but regardless, that pause in time is often the only thing that can precipitate change on a certain scale. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 68

Categorization

• XREF: This supports the reader’s argument that doing nothing is not withdrawal but a necessary precondition for change — removal is itself oriented toward a return. Connects to the Muir and her father’s examples that follow. — connects to: Faster action can decelerate life only if freed time becomes rest. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 353; Deeply internalized time patterns can only change through long, violent reeducation. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 102