Phase 2: Unearthing Values & Desires
Enough, Reimagined: From Clocks to Capacity
We asked a body-level question: What does “enough” look and feel like—of time, resources, rest? What emerged isn’t a finish line but a practice. Voices move from accumulation to sufficiency (“needs—with a handful of wants”), from schedules to presence (“time, not clocks”), from lone resilience to shared accountability. “Enough” shows up as a calmer nervous system and a commons that redistributes care—room to breathe, margin for the unknown, and infrastructures that make slowness livable.
“Enough isn’t a destination—it’s a practice.” —Sophia F.
The invitation is practical and collective: how do we design for capacity, not just velocity, so everyone has time to belong? This week, what single ritual could you add—or what metric could you retire—to build your capacity to rest and respond?
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Transcript
- Enough is when we have time and not clocks. That's enough.
- Time to go slow, time to think, time to pause and breathe, time with my family spent not looking at my phone or checking the clock, time to be spontaneous.
- My vision of enough has no phones or computers or screens. And everything is in walking distance. There's fresh fruit. And all your friends are over.
- I don't think that enough is a destination. It's a practice of gratitude and perspective.
- I think when my nervous system feels the most calm in every way, shape, or form, when I can like sit and my breaths feel like very intentional and very rhythmic. And I just feel good and my feet feel planted.
- There's this sense of enough for me when I feel in many ways small. And feeling small comes from, like I mentioned earlier, an environment. Like when I'm around a body of water, I feel small. When I'm around mountains, I feel small. When I'm in forest-like environments, I feel small. And in a way, that always feels like enough.
- There's never enough rest. There aren't naps enough, there aren't vacations enough. There's not an ability to disengage, where I can just kind of have what are kind of superficial thoughts that will allow for rest.
- The idea of enough leaves too much room for surprise. I don't want to have just enough food. I'm a parent. If you rely or you strive or you work to have enough of anything, life will show you that it truly could've been more and sometimes needed to be more. So I'd rather operate in a space of having a little bit more than enough.