I begin my week of being a 'Literary Guinea Pig' for Canongate Books by getting to grips with the tricky concept of 'Trying Not to Try', a paradox that even Chinese philosophers throughout the centuries have not quite managed to solve.

Tomorrow I begin my attempts to apply the Confucion approach of developing 'Wu Wei' and 'De'.

More info at Canongate's blog: http://www.canongate.tv/discover/nudge-your-world-trying-not-to-try/

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's TED talk on the concept of 'Flow': http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow

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