You need to create a tortoise enclosure so that your little tortoise mind, a little nervous creature, can look around and think “Yes, it’s safe to come out.” And to do this you need to create a kind of oasis in your life in the middle of the stress. [...] There’s two things you have to do: you have to create boundaries of space and you have to create boundaries of time. It’s as simple as that.
– John Cleese, from a talk in Belgium. This bit comes at about 6:45 minutes into the video. A lovely talk.
(via Mark Forster @ Twitter)
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