0808 – untangle competing interests (pt 1?)
I’ve been feeling some disappointment and frustration lately. The thing to watch out for is when I notice that I’m
0807 – don’t expect too much from babbling fools
(Wrote this initially on twitter after waking up from a rather psychedelic dream after sleeping for just 3 hours) I think the
0806: confront the minotaur pt2
So in pt1 I talked about how I tried to bully myself as a child, how ineffective that was, how miserable, how we are each inte
0805: confront the minotaur pt1
So Act IV of INTROSPECT is about confronting the minotaur, and it’s kind of apt how it’s the Act that I’ve s
0804 – introspect: overview
The above image is a screenshot of my latest (and final, I think) conceptualisation or overview of INTROSPECT. It’s been
0803 – introspect: what does your heart want?
The following is an unedited messy transcript of bits of my parts of a conversation I had with a friend, Ms. G. I spent a long
0802 – introspect: content page notes
I woke up, showered, got in my chair, it’s 1034am. In the shower I was thinking to myself, what’s the thing I want
0801 – introspect: deliver on the promises
I’ve been feeling a strange tension lately – I’m working on my book, INTROSPECT, and I’ve been feeling stu
0765 – what do I want? pt 1
It’s a simple question. What do I want? Boy, where do I start? I want to live a good life. I want to grow old fit and he
0751 + 0752 – introspect: navigating authentic wants vs manufactured wants
(this is an unedited rant, written as raw material to be subsequently edited into the book. The book will not be this rambly)
0724 – introspect: work backwards from what you don’t want
WORK BACKWARDS FROM WHAT YOU DON’T WANT According to people who work with the dying, there are 5 common deathbed regrets
0723 – introspect: is it bad to want things?
IS IT BAD TO WANT THINGS? In a separate post I talked about how people who have achieved their goals and dreams have sometimes
0701 – what i’ve learned being away from here
I started writing these word vomits in December of 2012. In the 60+ months since then, I’ve almost never gone more than
0691 – contemplate your personality traits
These started out as notes when I happened to end up at a table with a friend’s girlfriend’s friend – someone I was unli
0560 – figure out what you care about
I want a lot of different things and care about a lot of different things, both to varying degrees at different times, in diff
0453 – contemplate presence and impermanence
Impermanence is a hard idea to properly grasp. (It’s amusing how “grasping” implies some form of control, some ability t
0143 – question your assumptions about how life should be lived
This post was written in May 2014. Lost Illusions I find myself questioning many of my assumptions about how life should be li
0138 – Identify what makes YOU happy
For two weeks I managed to stick to a daily habit of writing down what I had done that day, watching a motivational video (why