Throwing notes away is not growing. Growing is understanding that inanimate things don't have control over your life.
This whole "philosophical" article that basically says "I've removed my notes because they were giving me anxiety" is a confirmation that this is just yet another phase in author's life.
You don’t get to define that. The author does, it’s their life.
The action taken here was not just the deletion, it was the reflecting, the identification of a problem, the thinking of a solution, the courage to follow through with something irreversible, the willingness to try something.
off topic, but I recently read Alfred Lansing's "Endurance" and felt that was in spirit like "The Martian" although I remember the latter more from the film than the book.
Ran into this the other day trying to screenshot something in the background of a music video playing through Spotify's desktop app. I opened youtube, took the screenshot from the video there, and wondered why the protection was necessary.
I myself threw out about 3000 notes last year
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