Failure is your best tool to help you navigate through solving interesting problems. They are opportunities that will force you think differently. Every failure is like a springboard to bounce on and leap across obstacles.
Success on the other hand is not interesting. If you foresee something, and it happens as you predicted, it becomes instantly boring, there is nothing new you can learn from it. It is the path of least resistance.
I’ve got to cleanup bookmarks.
I can’t say I am a tidy person. I have episodes of sporadic cleanup, followed by long periods of “orderly chaos” (which may sound an oxymoron but it is not if you read Chaos book by James Gleick).
Orderliness helps me to plan, that is necessary to allocate slots of time to deal with chaos. I embrace chaotic episodes as time pockets when I can utilise creative energy. Inevitably chaos produces entropy (ie. garbage), which in turn requires cleanup for further planning.
The balance between tidiness and chaos determines how effective you would be.
How would you prefer to nourish your intellectual curiosity today?
It is Sunday. As I take the first sip from my morning coffee, I think anything is possible, I am full of optimism.
Then comes the usual torrent of news on your phone, gradually sucking out of my energy, grinding and feeding bit by bit on my livelihood.
I need delicacies to joyfully satisfy my curiosity, to rejuvenate myself. I don’t want to nibble on peanuts for hours.
It’s been over a year I didn’t write anything. It could be the covid-19 pandemic, its grinding pace that put our souls to eternal winter sleep.
I knew writing habit has therapeutic quality. Choosing the right words reflected upon ourselves is too a conversation.
I don’t know if I can regain my writing habit. We’ll see.
