--- ## Highlights a simple practice called “Coming Around the Corner.” It takes about five seconds. You do it when you’re walking around a thing that blocks your vision, such as a wall or building. As you move around the corner, you focus just past the edge of the wall, and observe a little scene being revealed ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq10w5v88zvmq2jmbzcrhyg9)) Every single sensory experience — and your life consists of nothing else — can be allowed to surprise you in this way, and the little surprise alone is worth that slight effort. It makes virtually any moment at least as interesting as opening a fortune cookie, except that instead of a disappointing platitude, you get a little vignette of life unfolding. A perfect little work of art. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq10whq8we3q2b5v9gq5dqqh)) you don’t know what the actual spectacle of it, the experience of it, is going to be ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq10wygdvfbve9pmd92edwbh)) You actually don’t know what the eggshell is going to sound like when it plops into the bin. You don’t know how it’s going to feel to pull your sock off, how the chair will sound when you sit in it, how the room will change complexion when you flip the light switch, or how the warm water will feel on your hands. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gq10xkcnmea42yngc7tjc5n8))