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How not to miss your life

Editorial. Frank Berzbach is a German psychologist, philosopher and educator. In his work “Do not miss your life: the practice of mindfulness in creativity”, the Russian translation of which was published by the publishing house “Mann, Ivanov and Ferber”, Berzbach gives practical recommendations for people involved in creative work. How to build a creative environment and creative process? How to find the mood for calm reflection, without which creativity is unthinkable? Frank Berzbach answers these and other questions in his new book, excerpts from which we publish below.

Life as a studio

If you are often dissatisfied or disappointed, then it's time to change your life. Otherwise, he will become a monster for himself and those around him. Creative personalities build such dissatisfaction into their everyday life: only those for whom the existing solutions are not enough, who find them harmful or ineffective, begin to create. The same logic works in real life.

When we begin to think about our own life and decide to change it, we first of all have in mind everyday life. Everyday life is fraught with phenomena that postmodern society, modern technology and medicine give in to. A cold without intervention lasts a week, with medication - seven days. You can do wet cleaning every day, vacuum every week, wash clothes again and again and go shopping. But now the refrigerator is empty again, the shirts are dirty and there is dust everywhere. A new cold - and here we are again running to the pharmacy. All of life is problem solving, as one philosopher said, but didn't elaborate: "every day."

The inability to calculate everyday life often leads to the fact that it becomes a task larger than the work itself. Even free time is defined by to-do lists and appointment calendars. This is only partly due to the fact that the world is becoming more and more vast, and the number of opportunities is growing. On good days, we enjoy external freedom because we want to become free internally. But when the “noise intensifies” in our head, we feel it. We are constantly thinking about how much more needs to be sorted out. Not having time to partly deal with what we started, we take on the following cases that require an urgent solution. Most importantly, we usually believe that our stress is due to the need to bring so much to mind. But if you take a closer look, it turns out that we suffer, in essence, because of our overly active mind, which constantly craves new, supposedly obligatory tasks. We feel dependent, exhausted, restless and unable to give ourselves a moment's rest. We become uncollected, we start a business that we can immediately postpone and proceed to the next one, we perform our daily actions completely automatically.

We have no control over our thoughts and usually do not know what we want. Daily habits stand in the way of our dreams, and in difficult periods of life, stress distorts our sensory perception. Quickly realizing what harms or interferes with us, we are slow to understand what should appear in our life instead of these obstacles. It is often only with great difficulty that we manage to realize what we really want.

The art of working

Work is essential to livelihood, but as soon as the level of basic income is reached - which for creative people happens to coincide with the poverty threshold - the motivation becomes different. A personal mission, an internal order, comes to the fore. You can even say the following: as soon as money ceases to play a leading role, creativity becomes a form of life. In times of industrial culture, the ability to distance oneself from the value of consumption is a prerequisite for creative work.

Unfortunately, too many people still believe that success is the only correct outcome. As if he had just made a career - a truly creative person. Such representations refer to prestige, but not to talent or creativity. When talent unexpectedly brings material success, this is wonderful (in extreme cases, dangerous). If it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. We know so many examples of how artists remained unknown during their lifetime and decades after death, and today they are classics. When looking at famous creators, we often see only the result, but not the long, thorny path to recognition.

Even if your situation is not one of the opposite extremes - the life of a poor poet or a famous writer - it takes courage to recognize your own needs and persevere in the face of problems. Somewhere between these extremes lies what most consider the good life. Many creative people lead completely ordinary lives both at home and at work, despite the media's preference for eccentric personalities. Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant, Joan Miro or Thomas Mann were homebodies, inconspicuous creators, calmly going about their business.

The relationship between creative people and money is not a tragedy at all. In a prosperous Western society, the designer no longer suffers from hunger. There is poverty, but it is relative. However, being a creative person is a matter of material needs (still). Whoever, along with this, has to work hard, should find an occupation with which he can come to terms.

You have to work!

Today, conscience will hardly allow success-oriented people to be lazy. And even when the balance in the bank account is the best you could wish for, our super-ego cannot calm down. Inactivity quickly leads to feelings of guilt. At the same time, the decisive question in matters of conscience should not be the question “to work or not to work”, but “over what and in the name of what to work”.

The most famous position of the labor charter in the Christian world belongs to the Order of St. Benedict: "Pray, work, read - God will arrange everything." It sounds completely unpretentious, but in its time this covenant revolutionized. The Christian order itself was founded in the 6th century, but its philosophy still carries a beneficial impulse. How far in spirit this is from the hectic, profit-driven times of today can be seen from the first glance at the judicious combination of prayer hours, work, and learning. This triangle has much more to do with creativity than the capitalist triad of exploitation, competition, and marketing.

Whoever wants to work correctly must properly distribute his energy resources. The Benedictines distinguished two sources from which we draw strength. You can drink from a clean source: then the work, even though it will be exhausting, but it will give you the opportunity to fully relax from it during the break. Having worked hard, you feel a certain satisfaction: the feeling of your own diligence motivates.

Those who receive energy from a murky source - vanity, competition or perfectionism - not only get tired, but suffer from emotional burnout.

In the first stage of this disease, there is often a feeling of success. It seems that everything works out and turns out by itself. A rapture with work begins, which makes a person blind to everything else. These “flow states” bring a short-term feeling of endless happiness, but they are also dangerous. If today we say that we have completely dissolved in our work, then at the same time we compare our activity with an ideal professional life.

This means that through such over-identification, the self-worth of a person is completely subordinated to work. In many design agencies, it is considered incorrect to leave the service on time. Those who do not stay up late are considered losers.

Whoever sets ambitious goals must keep a distance from work and not get lost in it. Healthy distance creates the inner freedom needed not only for motivation, but also for creativity.

Whoever is completely absorbed in work loses the perspective of life. A narrow view hinders creativity by artificially limiting experience, and if you are too scattered, turning your professional eye to different areas, you can go blind. Reality, perhaps, saves from such a fate: for the majority, these are children or pets, as well as, unfortunately, diseases. When work absorbs us, these three things are persistently reminded of themselves. It is useless to try to control them, or at least partially control them: it is impossible.

A person who does not separate work and life, absorbed in his profession, should pay attention to the distance in relation to what he is doing. He should be aware of the role he plays. It is in creative people that ambiguity breeds deep dissatisfaction. Take for example those whose life is connected with pencils, brushes and paints, who live in an office or studio. They may be illustrators or freelance artists.

A person keeps a distance to his work when he decides whether he is now taking a pencil in his hands as an artist or as an illustrator. When we set boundaries for work or consciously accept the diversity of our roles, it brings order to our minds. When and what kind of work do I start and when do I finish? Am I an illustrator during the day and an artist in the evening, or do I change activities depending on the month or hour? The advantage of this reflection is that you can see if a task is taking too long.

The Real World

In recent decades, one form of work seems to be in decline, namely the one in which tasks have to be done by one's own hands. This applies mainly to "creative professions". The computer has simplified a lot and presented amazing possibilities. The one who selects the font, has to deal with calligraphic pens less and less. Anyone who processes photographs, first of all on the screen, and then prints, is often no longer familiar with manual development and printing in a darkroom.

There are many materials for creation: one who intends to release a sculpture from stone will gain an objective experience of transcending physical boundaries. A product designer who only animates his ideas on the computer and no longer encounters real models loses the real dimension of experience. By working with your head and not with your hands, you quickly find yourself trapped in the idea that the world is constructed primarily by our consciousness. .. Manual labor confronts us with the real world, in which we immediately receive a clear response about the quality of our work.

Perhaps the medieval workshops, secluded monasteries and communes of artists were more suitable for creative activity than offices with their freezing atmosphere in some architectural squalor of a modern building.

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UN Special Envoy for Yemen: Don't miss a chance for a peaceful settlement |

He declared this to the members of the UN Security Council who had gathered for a meeting devoted to the settlement of the situation in Yemen. The special envoy, however, warned that the current uncertainty could lead to an escalation and a new round of conflict in the country.

The results of the truce

“It is important to remember that the truce was not conceived as an end in itself, but as one of the elements of building trust between the parties and creating favorable conditions for working on a political solution to the conflict,” Grundberg recalled.

The Special Envoy told the members of the UN Security Council what has been achieved over the past six months. According to him, due to the absence of major military operations, the number of victims has decreased by 60 percent. Sana'a airport was opened for international flights and almost 27,000 Yemenis were able to receive medical care abroad and go to study or work abroad. More than 1.4 million tons of fuel were delivered through the ports of Hodeidah located on the Red Sea. With the mediation of the UN, personal meetings were held with representatives of the conflicting parties on issues of military de-escalation.

A new truce remains possible

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UN humanitarian workers are doing everything they can to help Yemen, but the country's problems require broad support from the international community.

“I think there is still room for the parties to reach an agreement,” said Hans Grundberg. The main thing is not to miss this chance, the special representative believes.

He thanked the Council for its continued support and stated that this unified position on the renewal and expansion of the truce "made it clear that the international community expects the parties to reach an agreement as soon as possible."

Mine risk reduction

An important topic that was also discussed at the meeting was mines and unexploded ordnance. As Joyce Msuya, Deputy UN Emergency Relief Coordinator for Yemen, explained, civilians are at "terrible danger" due to the fact that mines and other explosive objects remained in many areas after the fighting. This problem is especially acute in the province of Hodeidah.

“Landmines and other explosive ordnance continue to be the main cause of civilian casualties,” Msuya said, noting that 70 people were killed or injured by mines, improvised explosive devices, or detonations of unexploded ordnance last month alone. .

The Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator called for more and faster clearance of mines in areas where hostilities were taking place.

Help from all sides needed

Speaking about other aspects of the humanitarian situation in Yemen, Joyce Msuya listed some of the problems. The deterioration of the economic situation has led to a shortage of food, the provision of services in the field of medicine, sanitation, and education is severely limited.

“Humanitarian workers are doing their best to meet the most pressing needs, but we cannot do it all alone,” said the UN representative in Yemen. She appealed to financial donors, development agencies and international financial institutions to provide Yemen with the assistance it needs to "turn the tide and chart the way forward.

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