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Waiting on tools
Having the fanciest pair of studs on weak legs are not going to make you a good player. Waiting on the tools without practicing your game...
Dec 29, 2021
The Last push
The most amount of push while swimming in breaststroke is the one you get on finishing one loop cleanly by connecting your legs. Leave it...
Dec 28, 2021
Bee in a garden
Sometimes you just need to be in the garden and eat the fruits that it has to offer. Just by the mere fact of enjoying the fruit, you...
Dec 23, 2021
Are we merely Memory
“History never repeats itself; man always does.” - Voltaire Our identities are made up of the stories that we tell ourselves. In the...
Dec 22, 2021
Tasks and creations
Working consistently and persistently on tasks can also be a great way to generate new ideas. We often tend to think that sitting in a...
Dec 21, 2021
Only if you learn
What does not kill me, makes me stronger - Nietzsche I recently noticed that its not ‘you’ in the quote its ’me’. Nietzsche refers to...
Dec 20, 2021
Transitions
Often we stop ourselves far from the limits of what is achievable. Our fear of losing it all at the end of an effort keeps us from...
Dec 13, 2021
No profit is Loss
Of great importance is the monetary value that one decides upon for one’s work. Often we are blinded by our privilege in accepting low...
Dec 12, 2021
Outside in
There‘s a lot of hoopla around the insider and the outsider in the world of art. For a field that is obsessed by critical thinking, it is...
Dec 11, 2021
Ordinary genius
“A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” - Napoleon It just struck me the...
Dec 9, 2021
Task Happy
There is a specific and intense joy of belonging to the task that one is doing. Probably there is no other way to enjoy any task than...
Dec 8, 2021
Forgetting through sleep
Forgetting is the price we pay for remembering - Matthew Walker ( Why we Sleep) An interesting aspect of sleep that I always intuitively...
Dec 7, 2021
Responding to the present
One responds to their environment all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. A pothole in the road makes a biker steer away from it,...
Dec 6, 2021
Get to vs Have to
A major shift in thinking about work is the shift from a ‘have to’ to ‘get to’. I learnt this from a productivity class I took recently....
Dec 3, 2021
Memory
The weight of memory keeps her from finding joy - Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things) its next to impossible to not be weighed under memory. It...
Dec 2, 2021
Get the bad ‘X’ out
In art school as beginners we had this philosophy driven into us. ‘Get the bad drawings out of your system’. And its such a great way to...
Dec 1, 2021
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