Exhausted and overwhelmed. Why do I keep on snoozing on life? Why am I rushing all the time? I want to spend more time on the things I enjoy doing and stay with one activity longer. I want to be able to just go in deep without constraints of schedule — when I should eat,…
Category: MONQ
Three things I am practicing right now: Slowing down. Sit with something longer — joy or sorrow, easy or hard. Why am I rushing all the time? Live slower. Eat, walk, be present, chill. Savour the comfortable and be curious about what made me uncomfortable. Do things worth doing, well. Do more deep work. Practice…
I have been holding one question: what makes a good life? One of the conclusion I had was: “seek pain, amplify pleasure”. The idea behind it is life is better when you optimise for range. Aim to get the high highs and low lows. You feel more alive by having as many days as possible…
As a knowledge worker, I find that whenever I find myself getting anxious or worried, the causes will fall into one of these categories: uncaptured (fear of dropping the ball, letting anything slip through the cracks) unprocessed (unchallenged, just mental chatter, reinstating personal narrative, reinforcing sense of identity, telling myself what I already believe) unorganised…
Listing the way my mind works in computing metaphors. Mind OS and apps (foreground and background). I also like to call it my MONQ mind. modus operandi narrative questions What this soft machine does Going from awareness / knowing -> understanding -> acceptance -> internalisation -> implementation -> practice -> mastery. It’s hard to capture…