Defensive driving means recognizing all forms of distraction, including the preoccupations we carry with us.

Source: https://thefrisky.com/distraction-free-driving-defense-against-accidents/

Its properties had been inverted: the self and its preoccupations were shrunken and impotent, and the exterior plane, with its prospects of imminent danger and disorder greatly enlarged.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-stuntman-fiction-rachel-cusk

“Yet the historical force of these drawings outstrips their youthful preoccupations, and they offer a burning riposte — Who am I? Who made me this?”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/arts/design/stephane-mandelbaum-drawing-center.html