The decision to stop publishing daily came incredibly naturally. I considered it many times before, often in truly crisis situations. But I didn't give up. It always felt like there was something I still needed to write about. On April 1st I went out for a bike ride. At one point, I left my bike in the forest and started climbing up a hill. Once I reached the top, I knew; it was time to stop. I've said all I wanted to say in a shorter form. Let's be honest - writing is just a hobby - I can't sp...

Last night, right after finishing work, I sat down to read the day's newsletters. The usual stuff; Seth Godin's daily blog, Subtle Maneuvers, Subtraction's latest post, and Jason Fried's latest post about changes at Basecamp. I glanced through it quickly. But one paragraph caught my eye instantly: No more societal and political discussions at Basecamp. Today's social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advoca...

683 Yes, you've read that correctly. After 683 days of writing daily, I'm done. For a while now I've felt like I reached a plateau. Like I hit a ceiling. Writing is not my main job, so I can't commit more time daily than I already do. Thus, my writing (if posted daily) won't get any better. There are many stories I'd still like to tell. Many ideas yet to be told. I'm not stopping writing completely, but just slowing down. I've been building a solid writing workflow on the side, trying to po...

682 I often encounter people saying 'oh, I need to be inspired'. Or 'I'm in desperate need for inspiration, because I can't find it'. Truth is, inspiration is everywhere, anywhere, and at all times. One can be inspired by anything, even the most boring thing out there. Inspiration doesn't need to be found. It is there. All we need to do is open up. Create space for experience. For symbiosis. One more reason to do less, have less. ...

681 In the magnificent novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses the phrase 'so it goes' 106 times. If you're unfamiliar with Vonnegut's brilliant, piquant, sarcastic style, this might sound like nothing special. But, if you do, you understand how important of a stylistic device this phrase is. Vonnegut puts the phrase usually after a death or a tragic event happens in the book. Here's a beautiful example: The correct answer turned out to be this: 'You stake a guy out on an anthill in t...

680 Seth Godin said that tribes are the thing we should be focusing on. In the age of the Internet, we're getting more into labeling each other, but not resonating on a common level. Tribes can certainly be useful. For example, I'm part of an online community based around tools for thought. It's a tribe of some sort. And I like being part of it. There are definitely common denominators across all the tribe members, but still, in the end, we're all different. When I hear the term "tribalism", ...

679 I like meeting Americans who think the US is the greatest country in the world. It's always a fun experience. I like meeting Poles who think Poland is the greatest country in the world. It's always a depressing experience. In both cases there are interesting correlations between age, political beliefs and the belief that our country is the greatest or not. Young Americans hardly ever believe that. A lot of them got fucked over by the 2008 crisis, post-9/11-paranoia and all that shit. Mor...

678 There's this steep ascent near my house I've been trying to conquer on my bike. It's 510 meters long and goes up 70 meters, which results in 13 percent gradient. Many times in the past year I cycled near it, but never had the courage to actually go up. But, this week, I decided to face the challenge. By now, I've been there three times. Getting slightly better each time, but still need to stop at least two times on the way. It's excruciating. The most important tip for anyone going up a ...

677 Recently, a new wave of Zettelkasten-based note-taking apps emerged on the market. If you're familiar with the topic, you definitely heard about Roam, Remnote, and my favorite, Obsidian. The basic concept of these tools is that digital notes get linked together to create a sort-of second brain, a personal wiki, where each note is a "neuron" connected to others. Oh boy, did I jump into it right when I found it. Roam was convincing, but ugly and unreliable, so I didn't even try to impleme...

676 I am super tired right now. Mentally, physically, even emotionally exhausted. I cycled 50 kilometers this week. Read two books (551 pages, in total). Wrote 2512 words, excluding instant messages. Worked on numerous notes, research projects. Attended 11 hours of meetings and lectures. And I even had time to meet up with a friend. I am fucking exhausted. Every part of my body is screaming for some rest. But I'm feeling really good, too. All this exhaustion, all this tiredness, is just a by...

675 One thing I've been observing lately is how energy transfers itself from person to person. We sort of do these transfers all day everyday. Every interaction is a transfer of some sort. The more effort you put into an interaction, the more can be shared. So it's easier to share through interactions that naturally require effort, i.e. real-world vs. online interactions. Typing texts requires much less friction, is much less of a challenge than, let's say, a real-world, person-to-person debat...

674 I had this dream about walking through our garden, seeing my cherry tree blooming. In fact, everything was blooming in the garden. The calendar tells me that spring is here. Yet, just yesterday, we had snowfall. Late March/early April is always a fun, but weird period of change. It's like a dance. Sometimes, the weather takes a step forward; towards spring. Other times, it goes back a bit, embracing the bitterness of winter. Something wispered to me in that garden: we're not ready yet. ...

673 I know quite a few people who don't like history. Either they deem it as unnecessary, or they're frustrated by how convoluted, ambivalent, and honestly, confusing history is. I get that. For a long time, history was, for me, the most useless thing out there. Why should I care about that one stupid king who ruled my country centuries ago? He's not here now, so I won't care. Probably, I'd still have this mindset if not for my history teacher, Mr. Bartek. He was genius. Or, rather, he could...

672 Sometimes, in life, there are moments that seem impossible. If you try to think about your life as a whole, about the things you've done, the things you still have to do, it can be overwhelming. Especially if you have more life ahead of you than behind you. It's like trying to fit through the eye of a needle. So tiny, so thin. It is, truly, impossible to pass through. Growing up, getting old, finding love, passing that exam, getting that funding. All of these are eyes of a needle. Chokepoi...

671 We live in an unequal world. That's a fact. I've been thinking about gender equality quit a bit in the past few days. There's a limited number of voices that can reach the entire world. Let's say it's somewhere around 500. Only five hundred people who's opinions, beliefs, statements reach the entire world (whether it's hundreds of millions or billions - I don't know). And this number can't constantly keep growing - we all have just 24 hours a day. If 80% of these people are men (as it is ...

670 This truly feels like a post I should've written ages ago. Please critique my posts. That's the gist of it. Even though this blog just passed the 100 000 word count mark, I still feel like a noob. English is not my first language, and so I often feel like the words I'm writing are not necessarily correct. I'm improvising every single sentence, every thought. I do get messages from readers sometimes. So far, they have only been positive. And I'm incredibly thankful for them; there were t...

669 One of the most dangerous phenomenons of our society, in my opinion, is groupthink. It has been, sadly, part of what it means to be human for ages. Our desire for being in agreement with our peers, to hold opinions shared by those who we care about, often tramples our individual reason, our personal lucidity. What worries me is how our increasing reliance on labels is magnifying the strength and occurrence of groupthink tendencies. If you are part of group A, then you need to believe in a ...

668 My entire 'productivity system' is super simple. A paper Bullet Journal for planning, Standard Notes for note-taking and project lists, and a recent addition: Toggl for time tracking. As simple as it gets. One thing that stands out about this system for people acquainted with the modern concept of 'productivity' is friction. There's a lot of friction in the system. Standard Notes doesn't have keyboard shortcuts. I have to manually move overdue tasks from yesterday's list to today's one. I ...

667 Yesterday, when I was walking around the city, I came up to see Unity Centre, the tallest building in Krakow. Compared to other cities, it's not very tall. But it is, still the tallest. There's a very fascinating backstory on that building, how it started in the 70s but was never finished, and how just the structure stood there for forty years. It was even dubbed szkieletor (lit. skeleton) by locals. In 2016, after long legal proceedings, it was bought out by a private investor who finally ...

666 Trees are the beauty of this Earth. I think they're underestimated. On one hand, trees are very useful; they're the single biggest carbon sink on the planet. Think about it: wood is just concentrated carbon, similar to coal in the ground. Wood itself is a gracious material. It's availability and feasibility has made it one of the first (if not the first) material people ever used. It seems like almost everything can be made from wood; tools, houses, vehicles, even. Yet, at the same time,...

665 It's been a year. A full year. A year since schools and universities closed. A year since I had to cancel a pretty big meetup I was organizing. A year since everything stopped. So much sorrow, so much sadness. But, in the end, a victory. A humble victory, a not-yet-fully-realized victory. Is such a victory even a true victory? Most people would say that we've lost. I see at least one big win in all of this: we've learnt that nothing is guaranteed. Nothing beyond our humanity, that is. W...

664 I want to learn the colors you see. We all live in the same world, but we all see the same things in different colors. We have different palettes. Please let me learn yours; I won't judge. Most likely, I will be amazed. By the differences, by the things you see better than I do. By the beauty you notice and cherish, the beauty I always discarded. The darkness I've never come to understand. Show me your colors and I'll show you mine. Let's make this place more colorful. ...

663 I want to be the Now-Man. Not living in the future, not living in the past. Not thinking about the "next big step" nor reminiscing about "that great thing". I am here, I am now. Now is my home. It's the only place where I feel like I can do something. Just be. Imperfect, honest, scared, excited, exhausted. I don't have plans; I have visions. I don't have traumas; I have memories. They are. But I'm not them. I'm the Now-Man. ...

662 A while ago, when browsing through the archive of this very blog, I encountered one that stood out particularly: Horizontal Comparisons. I read it in full and thought: what a brilliant, original piece of work I did! Trust me, I don't say that often. It felt original, fresh. Mine. I often quote, link, mention other sources. Other people's work. But, I've always strived for originality with this blog. Maybe that's a wrong approach, I don't know. I find myself often discarding ideas because ...

661 Quite a few people deem art as unnecessary. The technologists, the scientists. Not all, of course. But some, surprisingly many, in my opinion. Art is important. It is a reflection of our world, a little bit absurd, a little true. We need to express what we feel, who we are, what we hope for. Otherwise, all this will result in internal inflammation, which, in turn, will turn towards apathy later on. Art is useful, too. One can look at the story of the Medici family from Florence; how they...

660 Deep underground wells usually keep their water at the same temperature all year long. Somewhere around 18 Celsius. Exact same temperature. Yet, in the summer, that water will seem cold to you. On the other hand, that same water will be very hot in the winter. The opposite may also be true, as Derek Sivers said in what is one of my favorite TED Talks to date. In China, doctors get rich when you're healthy, not when you're sick - this one just blew my mind. When we start relying on labels...

659 Today is International Women's Day. And so, today I'm not going to speak my voice, but amplify the voices of others'. Recently, abortion was made almost illegal in Poland, my home country. Hundreds of thousands of women and men came out to protest, but the law came into effect. Women's rights are being trampled and we're doing hardcore backward progress here. Please, if you can, show support to us, trying to fight for basic rights in a country that calls itself modern. Here's a bit more ...

658 I've been writing daily for 658 days now. Here are some things I learned along the way. Every idea is a good idea This is most true at the start. Everything is worth writing about. The weird shadows in your room. The friendly postman you've recently met. The senselessness of life. Whatever, literally. You don't need to "find" inspiration. Open yourself to your world and you will be inspired. Mediocrity is your friend Not every post you write will be good. That doesn't necessarily mean t...

657 Today I had to replant my Pachira Aquatica. I got the tree in November, but during the past couple of weeks the leaves started browning and a few fell off. After a bit of research, I decided that I need to replant it, probably because I overwatered it once, and some of the roots started to rot. It'd die, unless I'd put it in fresh soil, cut the rotten roots. Of course I procrastinated on this, but finally, today I gave my Pachira some fresh, new, beautifully brown soil. This made me think...

656 Continuing on my journey of exploring Hayao Miyazaki's works, I recently watched The Wind Rises, his latest film. It's a first for Miyazaki, in the sense that for the first time he made a movie about a real, historical person. The main character, Jiro Horikoshi, was a plane designer emerging in the 30s. His greatest design, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero was Japan's most advanced fighter during WWII. Horikoshi built planes as a way of realizing his greatest dream: the dream of flight, of buildin...

655 Don't know about you, but I like to be touched, moved by something. I enjoy works of art, experiences that make me feel something deep, something real. It feels like I can visit places; far away yet deep inside me. All through a single experience, which often happens without me going outside my house. During these past twelve months, I noticed one important thing: I'm more inclined to be touched by something when there's margin in my life. In the past, I'd be watching movies, sure. But eve...

654 In a world where culture (and, as a result, society at large) exists to create new needs, not fulfill existing ones, labels have become an ever-present sight. We use labels to differentiate, but maybe, most importantly, to shape our own identity. All in all, it is much easier to "absorb" a label with its entire baggage, than to individually shape every inch of our identity. When you say you are a Christian, people immediately attribute certain things to you. Maybe they will view you as a ...

653 We created art, culture, to be fulfilled. To fill a void created by the mundane lives we live. To talk about the fears, the hopes, bubbling inside of us. Art can help us let go, confront the hardships, express the sorrows. Cultural trends have helped us fit in, solidify our humanity. Find our tribe. Lately, it seems, culture has shifted from fulfilling needs to creating needs. These days, trends exist often for a materialistic purpose, to make money. Trends exist for the sake of being tren...

652 Art seems to be underapprieciated these days. Not that there aren't artists creating incredible work; art has fallen down the ladder of social importance. Was it ever really up there? To become a master in any field, one must strive to become an artist. Art, the process of creating new from old, is not exclusive to the traditional denotation of "art"; paintings, sculptures, movies, installations. A mathematician can be an artist, too. Bridging the gap between craftsmanship and artistry ...

651 The wind carries me forward. Cleans the air, cleans the mind. I like vast, open, windy spaces. Mountains, valleys. They give me a sense of conjunction. Congruence. These spaces provoke; they show the vastness, the potential, the dangers. The wind can be dangerous. It can wipe us out. Every force can destroy. No force is worse than dangerous force. We've learnt how to harness the force. How to draw power from it. Without obstructing, without destroying, living in symbiosis. That makes m...

650 We live in an unequal world, where not everyone has an equal chance. Some people have it easier, some have it harder. Many of us have privileges; I wrote about them a few times already. But there's another privilege we often forget about: access to knowledge. In theory, there is universal education. In theory, anyone with access to the Internet can visit any URL out there. In practice, knowledge compounds - the more you read, the more you listen, the better you get. Someone who had access...

649 We're often afraid of total creative freedom. Most of us, when presented with the opportunity of 'roaming free', default to going by the script, or not going at all. No matter the type of creative pursuit, going by the book provides us with a shield, gives us protection from possible failure. Minimizes risk. Seemingly, abiding by the rules, even rules set by ourselves, strikes a balance between expression and safety. Nobody wants to trip, especially when others are watching. Studies have...

648 Dignity is an interesting concept. It's constituted by our humanity, the simple fact that we are human. It's the right to be respected, valued, for our own sake. To be treated ethically. One interesting observation I recently encountered talks about how 'group dignity' is a much more fragile concept than 'individual dignity'. Individual dignity is granted by the fact that we are human. A fact no one can undermine. Group dignity, on the other hand, is granted by social importance. Differ...

647 Yesterday, I participated in a CreativeMornings event with Jason Fried, the founder and CEO of Basecamp. There was one thing that caught my attention in particular: someone asked Jason if they have goals, as a company, do they use OKRs, KPIs, etc. Jason replied: no, we've never had that. We are a feelings-based company. Whenever we feel like something is right, we do it. When feel it's wrong, we don't. That's all. Wow. That's a heck of an approach. This got me thinking: how often are we ...

646 So there is this trendy new social media app called Clubhouse. Instead of being based on text, images and video, like most social networks before, it's centered on audio. You can join "rooms", where you can talk with people, like on a big group call. The concept itself is quite good. I like audio. Heck, I've been hosting and producing podcasts for two years now. I also love the casual chats we're having with friends on our private Discord server. Video is good for more "official" stuff, bu...

645 Daft Punk announced their split after 28 years of working together. What a bummer. I've been waiting for a new Daft Punk album for so long. And all I got after all this waiting was an eight minute video telling me they've ceased working together. Sad. But another part of me is kind of proud. Proud that they were bold and transparent enough to end things officially and gracefully. Instead of keeping the thing semi-dead, they decided: it's better to end. It's hard for us to let go of thin...

644 A month ago I said goodbye to my smartphone. It was one of the best decisions I made in a while. During this past month I: Read five and a half books Watched four movies and one four-part documentary Spent 30% more time with family 20% more time with friends 90% less time on social media Getting rid of my smartphone has made me feel untethered, in a way. I am free from the constant demands of being always connected, always online. When I go on a walk now, I don't listen to podcasts. I ...

643 Don't know if it's just me, but I think we're forgetting about compassion. A while ago I wrote about reciprocity. Compassion, a similar concept, is about "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it". So it's about helping other people, helping with their distress. It's hard to help without ego, but there's no place for ego in compassion. It needs to be real, honest, to exist. It can't be polluted with ego, because then it stops being compassion - ...

642 I'm not good at waiting. I've never been. Slowly, I'm starting to learn that the best things take time to resolve. The "quick and easy" is not the "satisfying". It's appeasement, not satisfaction. Excitement builds over time. Clarity builds over time. To reap the benefits of compound interest, you need time. All the good things about life need time. Rushing is a fool's job. When we let things resolve slowly, naturally, they bloom in their fullest forms. The best orchestral pieces are...

641 I recently watched 10 Years With Hayao Miyazaki, a documentary about the life and work of the legendary anime director. I wasn't very familiar with Miyazaki's work before watching the doc. I've only seen Spirited Away before 10 Years. In between watching the four episodes of the documentary, I caught up on a few of his films. This Twitter thread features a few interesting snaps documenting Miyazaki's creative process. It's messy, it's unorganized. As an aspiring artist myself, I can conf...

640 Nobody loves the stem. Everybody is looking at the flowers, oh how beautiful they are! So colorful, enchanted, almost. Oh, look, there's a bee right over there. Nature is beautiful, aye? But the stem? It's nothing compared to the flowers. An ugly green "stick". Thin, hard on the outside but moldy on the inside. The flowers are everything, but the stem is nothing. But there'd be no flowers without the stem. It's crucial in any plant. Like the roots. At least the roots are underground, bu...

639 When we move forward, building the next version of ourselves, we have to leave things behind. Places, people, habits. The process of returning, coming back is very interesting. While I'm all for personal growth, moving on, I do believe that occasionally returning to pieces of your previous self is incredibly valuable. There might be things that actually work for you now. They might've not been working in the past, but they might work now. The "oh, I tried this before" mindset is a flaw...

638 It's depressingly hard to live a simple life. Everything seems to be so complex, so advanced these days. It's hard to exist without a smartphone, without social media. You need to do your taxes, pay your bills. There are many social responsibilities, even more work-related ones. Living a complicated life is easier in a sense. To live simply, you have to put all this work into reducing noise, simplifying, decluttering. This can truly be exhausting! Why do we have to do more to have less? ...

637 Read part one. Problems are like nuts. Tough on the outside, hard to chew. Somewhat tasteless. But full of nutritious micro- and macro-elements. So dense, so packed. To actually deal with your problems, you have to bite them like a nut. It's going to hurt. Once you get through the hard shell, chewing the inside will be easier. Tastier. Eating nuts strengthens your teeth. When you see a problem, take it, bite it, chew it hard. Don't go around. The detour is kinda boring. Problems are lik...

636 Problems seem to be everywhere. Everyone seems to have them. Oh how often do I hear people say: he's dealing with a lot of problems right now. Or: she's a problematic person. I've been hearing about "problems" all my life. About how I have them, about how others have them. Over the years, I gathered some interesting observations about problems - or, rather, how we approach and interpret problems. Perception is a powerful tool. The common way of viewing problems is seeing them as roadbloc...

635 Designing an environment that stimulates work is something I love to do. Some people swear they can do their work anywhere, with no impact on the quality. Others have specific needs regarding their environment. I've always been somewhere in the middle. Sure, I can do my work in more than one place, but there are a few deal-breakers that slow me down. Recently I bought a sit-stand desk, something I've been dreaming about for a long time. Now, I feel more at peace and in sync with my off...

634 As DHH wrote in his blog post a while ago , we don't appreciate when we have enough. Somehow, it seems, that our thirst for more has become stronger in recent times. Is it a staple of the human condition to never be satisfied? Building out your enough sense is a powerful exercise for living in today's world. That little voice that tells you to refuse, to stop when you've had enough. As I look around at successful, fulfilled and happy people around me, I see one common trait among them: ...

633 We all have dreams. Or, at least, I hope that's the case. Dreaming is a beautiful act of human richness. I often encounter people using the phrase: oh, but it was just a dream. Like in the last lines of Losing My Religion. No matter the topic, I see this particular line of thinking appear more often than not. Dreams are projections of reality that could happen. All dreams are rooted in reality, being a possible extensions of it. No matter their size, their range, dreams are always the sam...

632 Today was I took my first train journey in a year. I love trains. As a mode of transport, as an experience. Fast, comfortable, unique, safe. There are many logical arguments about choosing a train over another type of transportation. Frankly, the one argument that tips the scale for me, may be considered somewhat illogical. Traveling by train has always made me feel this incredible feeling of transcendence. Of a true journey. To and from. Within. In between identities. Through memories...

631 Not too long ago I wrote about growing ideas. I still believe that we too often think about collecting not cultivating. Ideas are out there. They've always been. All you've got to do is take them and let them grow inside of you. Nevertheless, without collection, there'd be nothing to cultivate. Nothing to work on. Nothing to think about. One of the greatest purchases I've made in my life was a pack of pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks. Softcover, blank pages. As a rule, I always carry one ...

630 Whenever I travel from city to city, I'm always amazed by the differences in scale. For someone in London, a one hour commute is nothing. For someone in Krakow, one hour is something, but still perfectly acceptable. Yet, for someone living in a small town, one hour seems truly ridiculous. Where I live, the closest store is 40 minutes away by foot. After a few years living here, I've gotten used to it. But now, whenever I visit someone who lives much closer to a store, it just feels weird...

629 Have you ever watched a bird struggle to fly in strong winds? It's an interesting thing to observe. The little guy trying to so hard to fly, flapping its wings so hard, yet failing to move forward. As Derek Sivers wrote a while ago, do what scares you. In a sense, flying against a stron wind is exactly like doing something that scares us. A life without challenge is a passive life. Unfortunately, passivity is incredibly close to apathy. Crossing that line is unavoidable, and, sadly, undet...

628 My grandpa has this story about meeting a hobo/bum/homeless person who asked for beer. (That's common here in Poland). Instead of refusing, like most people, my grandpa went ahead and bought them a four-pack of beer. He says he did this more than once, and, in fact, does this quite often. A while ago, while walking on the streets of Krakow, my hometown, I started thinking about the still-present social "castes". Even though a lot has changed since the peak of these systems, there are still...

627 In George Orwell's 1984, there's this concept of thoughtcrime - a crime committed by just thinking about something unlawful. Sometimes, when we wander, we may be afraid of our own thoughts. Something too dark, too menacing. Or maybe too joyful, too perfect. No matter the thought itself, the phenomenon of being scared by a concept conceived in our own mind, is fascinating. Have you ever thought about something, and then immediately corrected yourself: oh, I shouldn't have though about th...

626 A friend of mine once said: oh Alex, you're friends with people from very different circles. At first, I just laughed. But after giving it some though, I realized this is quite true. I do know people from very different, diverse backgrounds - people who don't "bump into each other", even often display deep-rooted animosity towards another. Yet I'm friends with most of them. This got me thinking: am I a shapeshifter? A person who does everything to fit in? Throws away their identity, or h...

625 A common problem I'm seeing with today's society, but especially with people my age (15-25), is that we tend to explain feelings. Feelings, emotions, impressions, they are transient. Elusive. Dynamic. Like the proverbial feather from Forrest Gump. Even the greatest artist can only capture an incomplete and twisted rendition of a feeling. Our logical and epistemology-obsessed world places thought, not faith, nor feeling, at the forefront. I am no judge of the process as a whole, but I can ...

624 Failing is a key part of life. We all failed, we will fail. Only thing we can do with this truth is to simply accept it. For me, accepting and assimilating this truth was a long process. Still don't think I'm truly there. But, with every failure, I'm a little less occupied by its occurrence. Year after year, little more accepting. A this point my approach is slowly turning into a formulated one. I call it "failing steadily". Not an original concept, for sure. Find it in sports, banking, p...

623 When thinking about creativity in general, we focus on collecting ideas. I often hear "oh, but I don't have any ideas", or something similar. Our constant desire for "inspiration" and the elusive feeling of "being inspired" is seemingly all we can focus on. After spending much time designing, thinking about and, of course, using creativity systems I've come to realize that cultivating is more important than collecting. Certainly, it is a harder skill to build. These days, ideas are everyw...

622 Today I visited a friend who lives in Ojców National Park. A beautiful spot just outside of Kraków. I live near it too - it's been the destination of many of my bike rides and walks. We went on a hike to see the surroundings. At one point, we were standing on one slope of a small valley, while on the other, fourteen or so wild boars were passing. Such an interesting experience. Thankfully, they didn't notice us, and continued to march to their destination. It reminded me of this scene fr...

621 A while ago I wrote about projections of other people we may rely on. Our own interpretations of wholly unique and individual human beings. What's interesting is when the process of projecting starts applying to ourselves. When we start creating, and then believing in a projection of our own self. Some call it masking - hiding our true self from the public, but also, sadly, from ourselves. A mask is a complete, compelling projection of a person. Masks let us "transform" ourselves in fron...

620 We all have flaws. Sometimes, these flaws start becoming obstructive, destructive, even. That's when a "crisis" or a "crash" comes. We've all experienced these, in some rendition. Sometimes they're brief and intense; others, they're long and drill down slowly. Some touch every area of our life, others only a single one. When you're down, the only way is up - that's something we've established on this blog a while ago. This current version of you is clearly not working - after all, you're ...

619 In our increasingly secular world, we're slowly replacing the old concept of "God" with smaller, more transient and physical "gods". Not judging this process as good or bad; just noticing its existence. In our capitalistic society, money is a god for many. Money often dictates what we do, what we eat, how we look. Like an almighty God. We talk about money in highest regard, carefully cherish its existence, proudly enjoy the benefits it gives us, and swiftly blame it for misfortune. But t...

618 A friend of mine once asked: surely you're expecting something in return from all this volunteer work you're doing? After a brief moment, I replied: no. Then I clarified: if I did, I wouldn't have the motivation to do it. This theme has been presented here on multiple occasions. Yet it comes back so often in my life, that its hard not to write about it again. Since the pandemic times, I always paid my barber 20% more than the regular price. Why? It's hard for small businesses, and I truly...

617 I'm starting to believe that hype is a word and a concept that's penetrating our society at an incredible pace. Hype is not excitement. Hype is not interest. Hype is not support. Maybe it has elements of all three. But hype exists for the sake of hype itself. It's ultimate goal is prolonging and expanding it's presence in our lives. Like a bug, a parasite. Controlling what we feel, how we behave. I spent a lot of time in "technology enthusiast" circles. Oh boy, it's the mecca of hype. A...

616 Last week I gave a talk on creativity. It was creative, to say the least. If you'd like to watch it, let me know, it's in Polish though. I have long believed and still believe that creativity is necessary for a fulfilling life. This site is my little corner. My art gallery. A tiny speck in an ocean of creations. Small, but unique, mine. It's worth keeping up solely for that fact. My grandpa wrote a book. I never imagined he'd write a book. What would he write about? I come from a simple f...

615 Two truths went on a walk. One was right; the other was right too. Both were the truth. Yet, they walked separately. One slipped up on the icy path; the other helped it get back up. They talked, they argued. Calmly, but confidently. They both knew best. After all, they were truths; they knew their best. At one point, their tempo matched up. They started walking in unison. Two wholly separate truths, distinctly unique in their righteousness, walking like one. To a bystander, their dif...

614 Sometimes I think I'd dare to say bittersweet is the taste of life. The optimist in me shouts: "no, it's all sweet!" It has to be. There's so much beauty, so much love, so much power. All this beauty is sweet, aye? Then the pragmatist-realist replies: but how many times things ended bittersweet? So many. There was always a flaw in the beauty, a shard that stung the heart. It has taken me a lot of time to start realizing that the best endings are bittersweet. The best stories are not per...

613 I did it. I said goodbye to my smartphone. I don't like texting, I don't like social media. So why should I have a smartphone? Surely I can survive without it? It was a decision long in the making. After many social media detoxes, after installing and un-installing Facebook Messenger multiple times, I decided the only solution would be to uninstall the phone fully. Go back to a flip phone. Still have it for calls and texts, so, if anyone needs to contact me, they can. But, I'll handle a...

612 Some, mostly older folks, say we've lost our spine as a society. That we've left behind our values, traditions. While traditions are certainly things that can go away, especially if they're damaging in some way, values should never be lost. They might change, adapt, but never go away. I do agree to some extent with these people. We exchanged values for trends. We don't check our actions against an ethos; rather, we check them against what's trending on social media. Everyone's buying a p...

611 Some say time is a dimension. Others consider it simply a human construct. We can definitely say: time exists. That's undeniable. Whatever it is, or whatever we think it is, it's always been the same way. Always relentlessly going forward. One second at a time. What definitely has changed is our attachment to time. Time as a concept, time as a construct. It has now become the dictator of our everyday lives; our emotions, our interactions, decisions, everything. What would our society be w...

610 A rich life is a fulfilling life. Not rich in money, but rich in experience, relationship, knowledge. Apathy is a state signifying the exact opposite. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster: 1: lack of feeling or emotion 2: lack of interest or concern Apathy is bad for us. It's a step beyond letting go; where letting go is about acceptance, but apathy is about denial or escape. It rots our lives in so many different ways. There's total apathy, often called depression. But ther...

609 I consider myself a privacy advocate; or, at least, a person who cares about my privacy. One thing I often hear from my friends is: "I have nothing to hide". And they continue using Messenger for communication, Google for search, TikTok for entertainment. Truth is, we all have something to hide. Think about it: would you truly want your every thought, your every action, to be shared with tech giants and/or governments? Because that's where we're going. When we know that someone is watchi...

607 As I mentioned a few times already, I don't like texting. It's a shallow form of communication. One thing that texting kind of encourages is transactional conversations. Talking for the sake of getting something. Information, something done, something scheduled. Conversation not for the sake of improving one's relationship, but conversation for sake of achieving something particular. Why? Because texting is not like regular conversation. Normal conversation overlap. They end abruptly. ...

606 We often say we need things. Not just things, but people too. As I already wrote on this blog a few times, being attached to physical things is a dangerous state. Materialism possesses our emotional state, decision making, mental clarity. Things should serve us; be useful. But not the other way around; we should never serve things. Being attached, tethered to a thing obstructs our freedom; our ability to live fully. In one love song after another, we hear: I need you. We think that love i...

605 Yesterday, we were driving down from the mountains with a couple of friends. It was the end of a short, but really relaxing trip. It started snowing really hard a few hours before we were due to leave. There was already a lot of snow, and ice, on the road. But we thought: better to go now, than wait - who knows how long it's going to snow? The first few hundred metres went pretty smoothly. I mean, there was that one point when my friend, who was driving, had the brake on full, and we were...

604 Giving is great. Helping is great. As I wrote in my 20 Lessons From 2020, and my year-end review, helping has truly become a key part of my core values. Yet, I wonder: can altruism be truly honest? Where all help is done just for the sake of good, not making oneself feel better? No ego grooming? No selfishness? Even though I often feel like my helping is honest, that I'm doing the work just for greater good, can I be truly sure that's the case? What if, deep in my brain, the desire to hel...

603 I've been lagging behind with writing daily this past month. I even wrote about it already. Even though I truly did slip up in December, I kind of intentionally continued to not write daily for a while. As you can see, I still wrote posts for every single day. But, I didn't necessarily write them on the day. Rather, in bulk, few at a time. Building good habits is the best way to grow. And, surely, I'm very proud of the daily writing habit I've built. I've said it before and I'll say it a...

602 It finally snowed for real here in southern Poland. When I was younger, we had snow for two months solid. But now, a week seems impressive. Here's how it looks 500 metres from my house. Walking in the snow is an interesting experience, to say the least. When the snow cover is thick, but not too thick - somewhere between 20 and 50 cm - it can be considered dangerous. Everything is covered, so you can't really see what you're stepping on. There might be ice, rocks. A frozen puddle. A hole...

601 Here in Poland there's widespread admiration for English-speaking countries with high standards of living, like the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand. We've been enamored with America since WWII, when Allied forces freed us from Hitler. Later, that sentiment grew as the U.S. helped abolish the Iron Curtain (especially Reagan). And now, millennials are enchanted by prosperous countries like Canada and New Zealand. We just can't fathom how these countries are prosperous, diverse, and majes...

600 There is this story about hydra, the animal. It seems to never die of natural causes. Cut it in half, you get two hydra. Cut it in four? Four hydra. It has a stunningly large amount of stem cells that are constantly re-building its body. We kind of suspect that, like all things, hydras do eventually die. But, since we haven't witnessed it thus far, we can consider it immortal. Human life, one can say, is all about addition. We're born naked, with no identity, no knowledge, no power. All...

599 I know a few "productivity gurus". People who use fancy software, hardware, "life-hacking" to make their lives more productive, more effective. Following these people and their "techniques" turned out incredibly exhausting for me. Managing and just acknowledging their existence was taking a toll. What promised to be a solution to a better life turned out to be an obstacle. I still see there's great benefit from giving just even a little thought to working smarter: the most traditional wa...

598 I run this Discord server with more than eight thousand members. I've been running it for almost two years now; don't participate in it that often, but still steward the community. In 2020 we spent more time online than ever before. Many of us had the absolute majority of social interactions through online channels. So, I thought, how could I, in the age of online, share some realness? Not just with my friends, but with random people. From the server I founded. So I spun up a giveaway of ...

597 Politics, as a thing, is not something I tend to like. I have my opinions, but hardly ever share them. I do read the news, but usually one or two times a week. And I often get them of off Wikipedia - seriously, it's a great news source. Un-biased, no-breaking-news-flashing-in-your-face. You all know what happened today at the American Capitol. A mob stormed the building and tried to overturn the election results. Ok, let's call it what it truly was: a coup attempt. I do truly understand s...

596 We, the doers, like doing meaningful stuff. Whenever there is an opportunity, we take it. Unfortunately, it's easy to spread oneself too thin. And it's not just about commitment and time. I wrote about that multiple times already. It's also about emotions, relationships, thoughts. Think of the literal meaning of spreading something thin; like butter on a sandwich. The thinner you spread it, the less will be in each place. That's exactly how you'll end up; there will be very little of yo...

595 One last story from New Year's Eve. I visited two friends this time around. There was a five-person indoor limit, and a curfew from 7pm on December 31st to 6am on January 1st. I don't think anyone actually got a ticket for violating the curfew. Nonetheless, I didn't want to get one. I left the first friend's house at 6:10pm. I was on my bike. The route was pretty straight; there's a bike path along the river, and all I had to do was to cycle straight for ~8km. It was dark - no problem! ...

594 Each year, during New Year's Eve, I felt something. A change. A new beginning. It was a similar feeling every year. This time though, I haven't felt anything. Just a change of the date, nothing more. Maybe that was because I was physically exhausted. Or, maybe, I just didn't care. This got me thinking about my relationship with time as a concept. About how, as a very "scheduled" person, I live from minute to minute, from hour to hour. At least, that's how I lived before the pandemic. I'd ...

593 As I shared in my year-end review of 2020, I suffer from survivor's guilt. Quite a lot of bad things happened. Many people died. Many people lost their jobs, places to live. It was, truly, a year of tragedy. We can never forget about that. I suppose my privileges played a role in this, but I just thrived this past year. Many things were tough, of course. But, overall, when I look at the "balance sheet" of 2020, there was more good than bad. I did volunteer quite a lot of time. Helped pe...

592 2020 was a heck of a year. Both in the best and the worst meanings of that word. A lot happened; both good and bad. A year of "shake-up", one can say. This is my year-end review. At least the public version of it. What is private should be left private, after all. Nonetheless, I hope you find it an interesting read - I certainly enjoy reading year-end reviews of people I follow. Let's go. Me Health This year I finally started to truly care about my health. Got off to a strong start in t...

591 20 Lessons From 2020 I learned a lot of things this year. Probably more than ever before. It was a year of transformation; not external, but internal. I still do the same things I did. Talk the way I did. Think the way I did. But something, deep inside, changed. It's like I swapped the OS but continue using the same programs. Courage is my main lesson from 2020. The courage to show up. To step down. To amplify others. To find your voice. To be resilient. To be caring. To be focused....

590 20 Lessons From 2020 As a certified introvert, I like to spend time alone. And, oh boy, I had a lot of that time this year. It is, truly, what has made this year so good for me personally. But, at the same time, I started to see the incredible value of having strong relationships with people you care about. Maybe because I had less contact overall, I could focus more on every single interaction, on every single person. Thus making the relationship deeper, more valuable. In the pre-pa...

589 20 Lessons From 2020 Analyze, analyze, analyze. Deliberate, reflect, ponder. I do that a lot. Especially in a year with more solitude and alone time than ever before. To some extent, analyzing the past and present, asking questions, drilling down to the bottom of an issue, is good. It gives you superpowers, kind of. Allows you to see things as they are. Yet, it's very easy to go too far. To analyze every part of your reality; ask question after question. It's a rabbit hole of nev...

588 20 Lessons From 2020 Winning, achieving success is nice. We all truly love it, don't we? In conventional thinking, at least in my Central-European-Western-culture-white-man bubble, winning is the most important thing to do in life. If you win, you're cool. If not, go to hell. And so we all scramble to win, do anything and everything to be first. But a "win-centered" mindset is a rotten mindset. It rots our minds, our hearts, our souls. I tried to win this year. Again. I lost. So man...

587 20 Lessons From 2020 Health was never a strength of mine, to be honest. It's not like I was terribly sick; no, there were and still are millions of people suffering way worse stuff than I did. But still, I wasn't that healthy for most of my life. It was never truly a priority for me. I almost always found some things that were seemingly more "important" than taking care of my health, both mental and physical. Starting to take care of yourself means directly confronting your problems; it...

586 20 Lessons From 2020 It took me a while to find a word that would fit what I wanted to say. Strength? Immunity? Resistance? Nah. All of these are valuable traits, but there is one far superior; resilience. 2020 was a year full of surprises. Some handled them very well, others didn't. What separated these two groups was resilience; or lack thereof. To be resilient is to be capable to recover. To stand back up after a blow. To continue existence against all misfortune and obstruction. ...

585 20 Lessons From 2020 This year was truly the year when we realized we can be everywhere but nowhere at the same time. The idea of presence has truly changed from what it has been before. Now I can talk with hundreds of friends from all around the world, but not see anyone in person. It seems like I can be in multiple places at a time. Tempting, very tempting. Yet exactly because of this it's incredibly important to carefully choose where you are. Who you spend time with. How - an in-p...

584 20 Lessons From 2020 It's not hard for me to be anxious. To live in that weird state of constantly being afraid. Of simple, normal things. But also of the big thing that is life as a whole. I've struggled with it for a long time, and still do from time to time. It's gotten under control now, I'd say. I went into this year in a very weird personal situation that carried quite a lot of anxiety with it. It spiked truly at the end of January. Then it calmed down. And then the pandemic hap...

583 20 Lessons From 2020 For a long time I tried to figure out what it means to be flexible. I wanted to be able to adapt to the ever-changing world. To be responsive, tender, available when needed. But I knew too much flexibility meant little identity, a weak moral compass, poor decision-making. How to balance this out? How to be flexible enough but not too much? This year I came up with a hierarchy for the things I do in life: On the bottom there are values. These are the foundatio...

582 20 Lessons From 2020 I changed my view on pressure in the aspect of work quite a few times. Some times I thought it was the necessary evil, the powerful good, or the absolute atrocity. Last year I hinged onto the "necessary evil" approach. Now I'm back on the atrocity side. I hate being pressured to work on something. I hate pressuring others to work on something. If someone doesn't want to do something, then why they should do it? Working under pressure takes a toll. And the bill you...

581 20 Lessons From 2020 Ego is my worst enemy - knew that for a while. Been fighting it for a long time. This year provided the opportunity for a fascinating experiment. Ego acts up most when in front of an audience - but, this year, no one was watching. Not in the traditional sense at least. There was a lot of solitude, much more than ever before. It was more of a blow to the ego than I could've ever wished. (Un)surprisingly, the results were real good; that lack of audience to perform...

580 20 Lessons From 2020 It's easy to want more. More things, cool stuff, people, experiences. What we don't realize here in the developed world is that we already have more. We have more of almost everything. More freedom, more resources, more health, more time even, since we don't have to care about basic survival. All of these are privileges - things some people have, but others don't, and they give an advantage to people who have them. These privileges should on their own fulfill an...

579 20 Lessons From 2020 Out of all the thins I dislike about myself there's one that I dislike the most: the need for control. It got burned so hard this year. In so many deliriously beautiful ways. This year things that I had controlled, or I thought I had controlled were taken away, not just pandemic-related stuff. Control gives you the illusion that everything is right, that everything is yours, so it has to be right. It's truly the peak of ego. And one that I embraced for too long. ...

578 20 Lessons Of 2020 Big is impressive. Big is overwhelmingly impressive. Even if it takes little effort; only the results need to be big. Oh, and big is sexy. It just is, and we all love it by nature. This year, for the first time, truly, I started to appreciate small. Small results, small growth, small effect. Tiny things that are nothing when directly compared to what I consider big. I was the fool that wanted to get everything all at once. I rushed, rushed so fast no one could catch...

577 20 Lessons From 2020 This year, especially around April and May, I changed my listening patterns. In a metaphorical sense. I used to listen to (care about, talk with, interact with) a lot of people. I kinda felt connected to all of them, all at the same time. I had a lot of people in my DMs. But, when the pandemic obstructed these habits, something really changed in me. I started to listen deeply; to myself, to the few people I stayed in close contact with. I never experienced this in...

576 20 Lessons From 2020 Helping, giving yourself to others is truly the most important activity in one's life. Sure, you've got to have some resources built up to be able to give. You can't overlook your own sanity, capacities, growth, and pleasures. I've helped quite a lot this year. It's nothing compared to doctors and paramedics who volunteered tons of extra time to fight the pandemic. But, in my little personal scale, I've done a lot more than in previous years. It was tiring, chal...

575 20 Lessons From 2020 You take many things for granted. You feel like the world is outside your control, it's un-changeable. Nothing can break it. Everything in our society is a construct. A contract between anyone taking part in it. All it takes is the parties simply voiding the contract. Puff, it's just gone. The only thing that can be guaranteed are your values. And the degree you adhere to them. If you adhere to them. Everything else, everybody else, can only be expected, not guaran...

574 20 Lessons From 2020 It's cool to know people. Even cooler to know people that are cool. Friends, family, partners? All for it. Remember one key thing: what you have in your head is just a projection of that person. A projection made by your mind. It may differ significantly from the real person. And it usually does. The worst thing you can do is ignore this fact; it will truly ruin any relations you have with people. Respect their boundaries, their capacities. Always assume your proje...

573 20 Lessons From 2020 Texting is convenient. It's asynchronous. It's available. It's effortless. My generation loves texting. Everybody has all these messaging apps, and they spend a lot of time on them. That's just how we roll. Our parents call; we text. Texting is great in addition to normal conversation. But it cannot be a replacement. Maybe it can be the primary medium in work-related communication. But not in personal stuff. It ruined a few things for me this year. It made a few...

572 Welcome to 20 Lessons From 2020 - a series of 20 posts written during the last 20 days of 2020. These are the main things I learned in this, truly, different year. I'm writing this as much for you as for myself - a reminder for the future. There are things you may want. People you may want. Experiences you may want. And you may work really hard to get them. That's absolutely fine. Once you're working towards something, especially when that is of value, it's easy to believe it will fix y...

571 As time goes by, we build an armor around ourselves. A shell, so to say. To protect us from the darkness of this world. To let us live every day; to not bury us with the hardships. It's a protective element, and almost all of us have developed it to some extent. Yet, it's incredibly easy to build it too thick, to develop a level of apathy. To not feel; to not let things through. To become numb, block all incoming signal. This may happen both unintentionally and intentionally. But it's al...

570 I haven't written anything on my daily blog for seven days. There, I said it. I knew this moment would come; it was not an if, it was a when. Frankly, I expected that it'd happen during an ultra-turbulent period of my life. While, sure, many things are happening right now, it's not as severe as I thought it'd be. Writing daily has become such a key component of who I am, what I do, how I think, that living without writing daily was an interesting experiment to undertake. After all, I l...

569 I aspire to be a slow observer. Here's what I mean by that: Slow means slow. Whatever happens, whatever comes, I don't let it arrive straight. I am prone to judging a book by its cover, so I need to take time. Delay intentionally. If I'd be letting everything come right at me, there'd be none of me left. Observer means observer. I am the photojournalist documenting an armed conflict. I shouldn't be shooting; I suck at aiming and would be afraid to pull the trigger. I have to be sensitive...

568 Once you stand in front of an issue, a project, a vision, you don't know how it will turn out. It's a simple truth; something, anything, frankly, has to happen to truly know the results. It's such a simple fact; yet, it's one we don't often appreciate. We'd like to peek over the hill. To know what has happened. Oh, the urge! Has it gone how I hoped it would? Or it all went bollocks? The slow climb up the hill. It's excruciating. Going up, all energy slowly draining away. No end in sight...

567 Continuing on yesterday's topic of seeking certain people. I thought it'd be worthwhile to talk about how we seek them. The normal approach is to get closer. To know them better. To get into their social circle. To find similar hobbies, things you both enjoy. It's distance. We say: "oh, they got so close". Or: "they drifted apart". All about distance. How close, how similar. Distance doesn't signify connection. It signifies similarity, matching up, fitting in. To truly build connections...

566 We all seek someone in our lives. Romantically, business-wise, educationally. We look for partners, mentors, students, trustees, apprentices. Everybody is looking for someone. It's fascinating for me to see who we're seeking. Especially when you compare that with who we're being sought by. I know some people want me. As a friend. A partner. A mentor. A student. A helper. I roughly know what traits of mine they want. Sometimes they tell me, sometimes it's easy to decipher. Surprisingly, a...

565 I wouldn't say I'm a melancholic person. It just doesn't sound right at first glance. Romantically reminiscing about the past? Nah, not me. The past is the past. It happened, nothing can be done about it. I'm the move-right-onto-the-next-step guy. Right? That was me for a long time. Maybe still is, to some extent. Yet, during this year I finally started to appreciate how powerful getting drunk in your memories can be. It allows you to come to terms with what happened. Mind you, what hap...

564 It's a weird place. The in-between. A place where worlds meet. No man's land. I like to visit The Middle Ground. Sometimes, I actually think I could live there. Someday, maybe. Not yet. I'm not ready. This place is just... magic. It borders two completely different worlds, worlds full of opinions, arguments, rationalizations. They're not wrong, they're just a bubbly hot mess. That's how we grow, I know. It's a messy process by design. The Middle Ground is like the eye of a hurricane. It'...

563 December is here. And it's actually snowing this time! In southern Poland, at least. You can't really argue that December is a month of reflection. At least in Western culture. It simply is the end of the year; a time to look back on time passed. Even though the January 1st date is completely artificial, there still is much anticipation related to it. For me, it's not just a time to see reflect on what happened. It's also a time to wrap up loose ends. To apologize, to thank. To make amend...

562 It's truly interesting to see people get paralyzed. Not in the strict biological laying-on-the-ground-immobile sense. That's terrifying, especially when due to a medical condition. I'm thinking about the more metaphorical way; people getting so surprised by a situation that they loose their groove. Paralyzed, in some sense. It's incredibly interesting when it happens in objectively normal situations; waiting in line, when talking with a friend, giving a presentation. A healthy person ...

561 Have you ever watched Dr. Pimple Popper? It's satisfying, isn't it? If you haven't, go watch it. It's weird at first. Let's be honest; not everybody enjoys watching massive pimples, cysts, blackheads and whatnot getting popped. It's often messy, raw. Not something to delight yourself with while eating. Yet, at the end, it's hella satisfying. You feel the relief, the progress. The literal and metaphorical bubble burst. It's fascinating, to say the least. For me, all of this is a metapho...

560 I believe that the only reason why I'm here is to serve others. That's it. That's all. That's what I build my life on. Okay, let me dive in a bit. Self-serving, constant pleasure, and doing things you like is fun. It truly is; I truly love to do it, from time to time. Planning your entire entire day just as you want, executing the plan how you want, and not being subject to anybody else's plans. That's pretty cool. But, while a lot of people desire to live only in that way, I have a di...

559 I find it particularly easy to put oneself under the spell of notdoingnothingism. You know, the moments in life when you truly don't want, or can't, do anything. The days you spent on watching Netflix, staying in bed all day, disregarding everything around you. The months you spent being stuck in the same though-loop. You know the deal. While it is truly often caused by external factors, such as weather, people, diet, it's often not just accepted, but supported by the individual. I see t...

558 I used to use generalizations so, so often. Okay, maybe that was a generalization within itself, but I still think it's mostly true. I did it so often. "All these people are dumb". "All your ideas are worthless". "Whatever I do is good". Oh, how easy it easy to throw these blanket statements and cover everything with them. So natural, so inconsequential. I mean, that's just my opinion, right? Since when am I not allowed to have opinions? Duh. It took me some time to realize that this ha...

557 It's incredibly interesting how we use the phrase "seek common language" in various scenarios. It's a call to unite, call to collaborate. But, is it truly achievable? Can we find truly common language? At first, it seems like it's impossible. We speak so many different languages, each built and operated in fundamentally different ways. Even when translated, so much will be lost; almost every language has a specific "tint" to it that you can't convey through other means. Other than language...

556 I wrote about reflection many, many times. It's a topic I just can't get enough of, I suppose. A great metaphor I recently crafted and that helped me visualize the concrept even further is the one of going on a sightseeing tour. Reflecting on your life, your past, your present and your future is kind of like going on a sightseeing tour of a place. You visit the landmarks, the worthy spots. Get an overview of the place. You hear the most interesting stories; the ones that laid the foundat...

555 All I know is that I don't know anything. That's my default position in life. It's been that way for some time. So far, I've seen only benefits of that approach. In my social circle quite often I'm the guy that "solves problems". I mean, it's not like I know stuff. But I quite often hear people saying: "Go to Alex, he'll help you". And I try to, whenever I can. When you're in that position, it's extremely tempting to preach. Go "above" others and tell them what to do, how to live. I've ...

554 I think that there are at least two pretty important aspects of understanding identity. Two ways of interpreting it; of building it. First, there's the projected identity. This is what other people think about us, who we are in their view. But it's also how we think about ourselves, based on external factors; our environment, where we grew up, what we do for a living. These are all parts of one's identity that they didn't really choose. Or at least they did, but in a minor way. The color ...

553 I've been thinking for ages about this one question: is inequality inevitable? Are we bound to the inequalities of this world? Will there always be inequality? Can we simply eradicate it, like a disease? The answer I've come to is no. Almost everyone you compare, there'll be inequalities among them. Some people will have better, nicer lives. Some people will not. That's just how this world is. Utopia doesn't work, Lenin tried it. We all know how it went. It's impossible to ensure that abso...

552 I have so many defaults. We all have so many defaults. Gosh. Most of our actions are automatic, 95%, I'd say. There's no need to process through every single decision our brain has to make in a day; so we set up shortcuts, pre-made decision routes. In a sense, they save us from falling trap to the modern life and the myriad of decisions it brings into our life. But, as it turns out, relying too much on defaults can have tremendously bad effects. I see this in my life all day, ever day. Wh...

551 I recently made a major switch in my "content consumption" (hate that term) trends. Less noise, more signal. I love podcasts. They're such a nice, pleasant way of sharing information, debate, discussion. They are available, well-made, and just convenient. I learned a lot from various podcasts over the years, and currently subscribe to 63. Here's a list if you're interested. I produce and host one podcast myself, and I'm working on a second one. So, podcasts = love for me. But I realized t...

550 We're all waiting for something in life. Some resolution. Some progress. Some change. Waiting, expecting, hoping for. There's certainly one thing that unites all of us in this process of waiting; death. We're all, in a sense, waiting for it. It's looming, somewhere in the distance. Surely, it's far away for most of us. But it's there. Practically, the only thing that is guaranteed for all of us, equally. I feel like we're all united in waiting for another thing now. The end of Covid. Ev...

549 Shrek said that ogres are like onions; made of layers. Humans are also like that. There's the core, the soul, the essence. However you want to call it. It's the thing that guarantees your humanity. And everything that comes with it. Then there are layers. Of beliefs. Sometimes built on experience, but mostly not. Opinions, myths, projections, tales. They're strong. But once you learn how to treat them, all of them go the same way. Layers of scars. So many scars. Scar tissue is stron...

548 Writing daily has been a perfect, long-term measurement of my daily creativity levels. Because I can look back on a) how good particular posts are, and b) how hard was it to write them, I can quite accurately judge my "level of creativity". That's a relative term within itself, of course. But, more or less, a level has always been there, no matter how low or how high. So the measurement is more valid than it is not. I see some pretty "normal" trends: I write the worst posts when either to...

547 In most flavors of photography, but especially in journalistic and street photography, chance can be, and often is the deciding factor. Sometimes you just can't guarantee the shot will be there; sometimes everything may align as you want, other times it never will. That's the beauty of spontaneity; you, as the creator, have to simply deal with it. But you take the chance; set up the shot, choose the correct shutter speed, the right aperture. You think about the light, the motion. You foc...

546 It's incredibly valuable to know people. Have connections. Not just friends, but people you know. Whatever that might actually mean to you. And I don't mean that in a selfish way; sure, people can help you, but you also can help them. The relationship can be reciprocal, nay, it should be. You can learn, you can teach. Ask. Answer. Collaborate. Live more fully, once you know people. Going outside your current environment is also incredibly important. While having a base (physical and in t...

545 I think that "planning" is extremely boring. And mostly useless. While I have spent a lot of time diving deep into various productivity techniques, time-management systems, and tens of different frameworks, I still don't think they're necessary. Planning takes a lot of time. A lot of energy. And, most of the time, that energy could be just spent on doing the actual thing. Micro-management is truly a monster that's always creeping behind everybody's back. It's OK to plan if you can't affo...

544 Something very bad is happening to our society right now: we're cooling down. "Social cooling" is a new term used to describe the effects mass connectivity, mostly through the Internet, has on people. Not just social media - but even governmental initiatives, like social credit systems. We're becoming "colder"; less based on our own beliefs, more on external impulses. Because we're watched, we're behaving differently. Maybe more cautiously. Maybe to adhere to certain rules; either to "win...

543 We're not just separate beings; we exist connected, whole. While we all operate on different wavelengths, and every single one of us is fundamentally different, there are still many things that can hit us all. Many of our values that we take for granted; liberty, respect, equality, expression, are just constructs. Things we all (or most of us) agree on. Some things resonate with all of us. They reverberate through the entire society. They're like waves on a sea full of drops. A tragic e...

542 No matter how much we debate, how much we argue, how much we differ, we have to remember one thing: We can't loose our humanity. Everybody has probably a different definition of this term; yet, most of us have at least a tiny notion of what that could mean. We have to keep it, believe in it, and build on it. It's easy to degrade, disrespect, de-humanize. Sure, it takes some skill; but it's not skill that's hard to find. For the majority, critiquing is easier than complementing. So we st...

541 An important reminder; mostly for me, but hopefully for others too. Treat your people well. You don't have to know who are your people exactly. Heck, it might even be the whole world. It might be just one person. But it's incredibly important to find them, build relations with them, care about them. You're not here to serve yourself; you're here to serve others. Everybody is. We exist connected, interwoven. Not as separate planets, but as whole galaxies. You may have your own world, but ...

540 Music is a lovely art form. Quite a lot of people listen to music. It's everywhere, and it's not easy to completely avoid it. Yet, I feel like most people treat it as entertainment, not expression. It's not wrong, of course. But, getting deeper into music may help you better understand yourself. Music can heal, music can break. The same song can influence people in very different ways. Listen to it a couple of times, get into the lyrics. Isolate all the instruments. Ask: what does this me...

539 Constant doing doesn't give space for reflection. For consideration. You just go from place to place, from task to task, from person to person. Once you stop, you feel like something is missing. Something was taken away from you. You gave it away. The Void is scary to look into. It's very real, yet it seems otherworldly. It's in you, but outside you. Too much? To little? But I thought it was just enough. It seemed balanced. You don't know what that means. How could I? Learn more. ...

538 We've been growing so fast these past few hundred years. The standard of living in the "developed" (ugh) world is so incredibly high now. We've got everything. Like, absolutely everything needed for our survival and further growth and exploration. The boomers in the US, and the GenXers here in Poland were the ones with a paved way to success. They had on the one hand incredibly good economic prospects, but also faced some challenges (more in Poland than the US). What somewhat worries me i...

537 Kamala Harris was elected as the 46th Vice President of the United States, alongside Joe Biden. She will be the first woman, the first Black person, and the first person of Indian descent to hold that office. This means a lot, not just for the U.S., but for the whole world. Things are changing, and it may just be that diversity finally will get understood as one of the most important values globally. Diversity, through learning and respect, makes us the best versions of ourselves. We lear...

536 I always admired people who had interesting stories to tell. Whether it was my grandpa, my teachers, or even some of my friends, it was always so inspiring to sit with them. A great story transforms. A great story transcends. It took me a while to realize why they were able to tell great stories: they knew stuff. They read books, went to events, they met other interesting people. They had information they could build the stories on. A few years ago I made myself a promise: I want to tel...

535 I am a big advocate of setting up rules for life, of discovering core values. Of, basically, creating the foundations for everything else. It's just easier to keep going, to keep just vibing, once you have your moral compass somewhat declared. You don't have to worry about every decision in the moment. There's no need to always check yourself. If you're built thoroughly, most things won't shake you down. Of course, your compass will never perfectly align with the compasses of others. An...

534 A few rules on how to debate meaningfully. Some or all of them may be obvious to you; yet, I often forget about them. So I'm writing down this little help booklet for me. And maybe for some of you. Listening is more important than speaking. If you know someone isn't going to listen, don't debate. They're not worth your time. Distill carefully the arguments from the person. Don't mix these up, as it may mess everything up. Assume everything can be defined in multiple ways. Even though, in ...

533 So many things are happening right now. Elections. Protests. The pandemic. Somehow I feel like following all the news, participating in all of the discussions is like taking steroids. Sure, it makes you hyped up, knowledgeable. But it doesn't last long. It's an artificial exaggeration. An effort to swallow it all. Your brain will get overworked, lose its peak capacity, and, in the end, get damaged. The damage will be permanent. The more you do it, the more it compounds. Don't follow it ...

532 A few months ago I wrote that pain that is not transformed is transferred. A simple rule; unless you use the energy carried with the pain to do something else, you will transfer it in a negative way onto someone else. These days, when so many painful things are happening all around us, I think it's more important than ever to learn how to transform pain. It doesn't always work, of course. But, it's worth giving it a shot every single time. I know, it's not easy to rationalize and deduct...

531 Change happens no matter what. It's the core, essential driving force of this world. You can't avoid it, you can't deny it. Change is here, and will be here forever. I'm not going to write about change-deniers. Or rather, change-avoiders. People who can't accept. Can't understand. Let's just ignore them, for now. Since all change is good, and all change is inevitable, why not stand on the frontlines? Lead movements of change, in all the different forms out there. Accept, support, trans...

530 More often than not, I find it pretty hard to focus on writing. It's just that sometimes, when I'm in a creative dip, I procrastinate away from writing. And produce lesser-quality, missing-a-point, shitty posts. Damn, I guess this is not just sometimes; it happens way too often. Alt+Tab is such an easy way to switch to another task. Boom, now I'm in my email client, with plenty of interesting newsletters waiting to be opened. Boom, now in Discord, with multiple messages to reply to. Boom,...

529 I'm exhausted. By everything; the work, the rest. The social responsibilities. The awakening happening in the country right now. What I find truly interesting is that whenever I'm exhausted I'm also excited. Excited for things to come, excited about things that just happened. Sure, right now I am not capable of doing very much. I'm exhausted, aye? I won't write many words; I won't think clearly. But I'm still excited. The feeling of tiredness after a good day is so satisfying. And so exci...

528 Fall is here. The falling leaves whisper something to me. A message. Words of encouragement? A warning? Yet we move forwards and onwards. That's all we truly know, fortunately. No reflection, no revision. It's been so long since we've seen each other. Like, months. All of them months. It's so strange to see you, we shouldn't exist. Concise statements? Are you crazy man? All there is are fragments. Of time, of space, of memory. Tiny, bland, boring pieces. No one can differentiate them. ...

527 I usually stay as far from politics as possible. Sure, I might have opinions on things, but I try very hard to stay away from endless debate, polarization, and conflict. Politics can never be "solved" - it is a never ending mess, which will exist as long as humans do. Almost a week ago our Constitutional Court ruled that abortion is illegal except in cases of rape, endangerment of woman's life, or irreparable damage of the fetus. This ruling effectively banned all legally performed abortio...

526 Whenever I make new friends, or whenever I re-establish already existing connections, I want to let them know that they can depend on me. I want to assure them, that I, as a friend, are there to help. Whenever I can and however I can. This is often not an easy thing to communicate; I see quite a few people becoming suspicious when you tell them you're out there, for them. Maybe that's because they're just not expecting this kind of commitment? This level of openness? Of course, it's impo...

525 There's something about texting that I can't truly handle. It's my least favorite way of communication, yet everybody seems to prefer it. I love text as a medium of information. I love writing; I love reading. As you can see through reading this blog, writing is something I truly enjoy every single day. Same with reading: I read a book every day, for at least 25 minutes. Yet texting is a "nasty" way of using text. It tries to imitate speech, yet it strips all the nuances that come with it...

524 There's this project that I run, called Produktywny Uczeń. It's a productivity website, for students, in Polish. To my knowledge, a first of its kind. While it still is just a "side project", it made me spend a lot of time on it. Getting things running from the ground up, just by yourself, is not easy. While I have developed and streamlined particular workflows, the amount of work required to keep up with the upload and maintenance schedule is significant. The last piece of content I pu...

523 I wish every single post on this blog was truly interesting and truly entertaining. I wish that each one would leave a similar impression: wow, I haven't thought about this before! on the readers. I wish... I tried writing posts one day ahead: so that today I was writing the post for tomorrow, and so on. But somehow I felt that this diminished the "raw" factor. I do have one or two pre-written posts, which I'll publish if I truly won't be able to write one particular day. Kind of an emerge...

522 One thing I like to think about from time to time is: could it all end now? Would I be satisfied with the life I lived up until now? Could I just go away? End the story at this particular point? The answer is almost always yes. I don't know, but for most of my (pretty short so far) life, I've always felt I had to do more. In all aspects of life, holistically. Maybe that's because I'm young, aspiring, wanting to achieve something meaningful. Or maybe it's just the default expansionist mode ...

521 Everybody has problems. Different obstacles arise all across our journey. This is normal and common, even though it may seem that we have more problems than anybody else. Avoiding them completely is simply not possible, so why not do something to view them in a different way? Perception is an incredibly powerful tool. It allows us to completely change the way we see and understand things. In some cases, we might even completely switch our view of something, just through a change of perspec...

520 Quite many people truly believe that progress is linear. Always going the same way, at the same speed. Somehow it's easy to believe that every single step is equal in its impact, and the effort required to make it. Certainly a fun notion to entertain, which, sadly, is not true and misleading. When we think of progress as linear, we view almost every action as equal; this makes it very easy to focus on the easy, quickly gratifying ones. That simply may lead to us living a less full life. A...

519 Humans are social animals, we need connections and crave social time. Sure, everybody has their own, different capacity for spending time with other, but, in general, we all need some connection. Some people like to think that they are free, not bound, exploratory. That they don't belong to anybody else, roaming this world completely freely. While surely it is possible to not maintain any connections, we all belong somewhere. To our family, to a group of fans of a particular band, to our h...

518 While I do truly admire people that are smart, successful, inspiring, I also dearly admire people that are laid back. Everybody has their own definition of that word; it's something to be proud about for some, while for others it is something to avoid. A laid back person is calm, not bothered by the constant changes happening in our world. A person living in tranquil peace, kind of. I can sort of feel this when I meet people. There's this aura of laid-backness around them. It's beautiful...

517 I often catch myself thinking Oh, I've done this before. Of course, it happens in all variety of moments. But more often than not, it happens when I'm starting to write for this blog. My default response when I think of writing about a topic I've written before is don't do it again, be original. It's almost obvious to discard a reappearing thought as a mere shortcut to publishing a post. I want every single post to be thoughtful, inspiring, thought-provoking. And I somehow feel that a p...

516 As we're dealing with a second wave of Covid, I'm starting to see how most of us are divided among panic and ignorance. The panickers are worried about every little thing, about hospitals being more full than in Septmber, higher education closing, etc. They're afraid to touch any public surface, constantly spraying everything with disinfectant. A trip to the grocery store is a stressful thing for them. Constant stress and misery, how bad. And then they're the ignorant ones. "Covid doesn't...

515 We all sometimes get out of sync with the world around us. It's an interesting process to observe; when it begins, how it unfolds, and when the person finally manages to "sync" with the rest. Being out of sync, for me, is a period of time when we don't feel like we're in the right place, with the right people, doing the right things. Of course, we might be feeling bad due to a variety of reasons, but being out of sync means not "clicking" with what we clicked with before. Think a digital c...

514 Welp, here we are again... Today our PM announced new restrictions, which pretty much resemble the ones from Spring. They're a bit lighter, since they really really want to avoid another economic crash, but still. High schools, universities, gyms, museums etc. are closed. No weddings from the 19th. There are limits on the number of people in shops, churches. Masks are now mandatory everywhere in public, even on the street. A lockdown, again. Ugh. We could have avoided this, but we traded ...

513 Movement is powerful. Being in one place for long kills us. A weak body won't support a strong mind. As CGP Grey outlined in his Spaceship Productivity video a few months ago, physical health is something that can, and often does, bring up our mental health from the lowest points. Our bodies have been made for movement. That's how we optimally exist, how the engine inside of us can function. While food is the fuel, an engine won't work if its just sitting full of fuel. It needs to be use...

512 In the age of the Internet, everybody has a place to speak, to share what's on their mind. And yes, I know I'm writing this post on my personal blog. All of us get a platform to stand on and preach our version of the truth. Truly, it's not hard to get the first follower. Or the next ten. Not just people that "follow" you, but people that actually read your thoughts and reflect in some way on them. When all of us are speaking all the time, then no one will listen. Sometimes I feel lik...

511 We're in our minds all day, everyday. Constantly thinking, pondering, wondering, remembering, tinkering. Every little moment is spent on being in there. All that movement creates junk, debris. Stuff that is worthless, but limits the capacity of our brain. Getting out of your mind and into the world is such an important thing to do these days. Some of us would stay in there all the time, only if we could. Live through your body, with the world, together with people. Not in your mind. Doi...

510 There's a fascinating easiness to choosing what is available, at hand, over something that's worthwhile, profound. Sitting down and turning on Netflix is so easy. It's available, always. It gives us pleasure, always. Boom. Just do it and don't complain. Sitting down and picking up a book is so hard. Even the incredibly simple action of picking up the book seems like a task that would require a huge effort. Complain and don't do it. Being focused on the project you're working on is so ea...

509 Today was my first day back on the back after a three week break. I was dealing with some sort of illness, and today looked like the day I might finally go out again. I had a great time, even though it was pretty tough, physically. I kinda pushed myself to go as fast as I normally would, while my physical condition wasn't normal. Just had to take the precautionary dose of salbutamol to not suffocate on the trip. I think I'm experiencing a deja vu, aren't I? I've "gone back" already a few ...

508 These days, people like to document the lives they live. We take photos, videos, always running around with our smartphones. The omnipresent pursuit of capturing the moment. A pursuit to not forget about the past, kind of. But is it, really? I know I'm weird in many different ways, but I just don't like to take photos while living through something. Sure, I'm a photographer (finished photography school), but I don't like taking photos at events. Birthdays, parties, trips, whatever. I'm rar...

507 The pandemic is coming back at full speed here in Poland. We're seeing Case number almost doubling day after day. And it's not because we started doing more tests (percentage-wise), we're doing as few as we've been doing before. Most places have reopened by June/July. Even schools and universities opened in September and October, respectively. Although there are some local restrictions being imposed, nothing like the Spring lockdown is currently in place, even in the worst hotspots. Peopl...

506 We consume a shit ton of information these days. I read somewhere that it's somewhere around 100 gigabytes every single day, each one of us, on average. Although, to be perfectly honest, I don't think that number is true. i just can't wrap my head around the fact that I might be consuming that much. Hopefully I'm not. The problem with consuming that much is simple: we're not built to digest that all of that info. Our brains haven't had the time necessary to evolve and expand our capaciti...

505 There is this beautiful word out there: humane. An adjective that describes what is human and what is not. So simple, yet so powerful. A word we supposedly all know, yet, it seems, we've forgotten what it means altogether. While everyone has their own set of values, there are some that have to be shared. These are the most basic ones, the ones that make us human. We have to share them, for the sake of retaining humanity ourselves and helping others retain it. We've already seen what can ...

504 There's this new, very popular documentary called The Social Dilemma. It talks about the role social media plays in today's society and the impact it has on us, every single day. It's been getting a lot of traction in many communities (well, Netflix is also promoting it heavily), and it's reaching a mainstream audience. All of this seems somewhat awakening. I've been hearing, thinking, and talking about the evil of social media for a long time. I've been mostly off it for the past 1.7 year...

503 When doing something, we often strive for effectiveness, fulfillment, proficiency. We care about the results, wanting to achieve better ones every time. It's a perfectly valid approach; one that can truly help us grow each day. But, I think there's one word we're omitting from that toolbox: calm. We should be striving for things to be calm, too. A stressful thing, no matter how pompous in its results, will be remember as stressful, not necessarily enjoyable. And sure, not everything we do...

502 Sometime today I came across this magnificent quote by Isaac Asimov: "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." My ignorance is as good as your knowledge. Wow, that hit hard on so many levels. Even though the article this quote comes from was published in 1980, it feels more relevant now than ever. Truth i...

501 This is probably the message I've repeated the most on this blog. But it's a hell of an important one. Today, I've felt this in quite a few ways. I had a terrible nightmare, about loosing something important. Someone, I should say. I get these from time to time, but this one kind of hit differently. It just happened at a particular time. And it reminded me, again and again, to care about my people. To love them whenever I can. My life mission is about serving other people, so that's what ...

500 At last, here we are. Half of a thousand posts, day after day. Without a single one missed. Wow. I'm impressed. Every single day I'm breaking a boundary that seemed to be unbreakable the day before. Such long-term work made we truly switch from achievement-based thinking to process-based. I don't care about the numbers anymore, truly. Another hundred is not a big deal, as I wrote one hundred posts ago. Every single day, even the worst day of the year, I force myself to write. To confront...

499 A few days ago, Fleet Foxes, one of my favorite bands, released their new album, Shore. Somehow, I was not aware of it until today. But I finally listened to it, delved into its beauty during a morning hour-long writing session. I won't review the music; art is so personal to me, that I'm reluctant in talking about it publicly. I do it, but rarely. Also, I don't know that much about music. I listen to multiple genres, have my choices, but am not a reviewer. In any way. I was not surprised...

498 Every couple of months I move the furniture in the places I spend most time in. I've been doing this pretty regularly for the past ~3 years, and it's been a fascinating experience. Every single time I've learned something new. For example, yesterday I redesigned my work/rest space. Didn't buy anything new, just used what I already had. Maybe that's just a unique trait I have, but whenever I spend time in a physical space, I think about how it works, how I'm interacting with it. And thus, I...

497 Today marks a year of me living with a ultra-simplistic productivity system. In some circles I'm known as the 'productivity guy', and so I've used and built incredibly complex systems, both for myself and others. Writing this post today seems strange, but in the end, it's logical. Very. Here's the system: I have my daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans in a Bullet Journal. I'm even using the official notebook now. That's the place where I write down someone's birthday, a conference I...

496 Pushing forward, growing, achieving success, and all of that feels good. Hard work pays off, truly. It always did and always will, no matter what we try to tell ourselves. From time to time we'll take a hit. That's normal, it happens to all of us. It doesn't matter how hard we're trying, or what exactly are we doing, a hit will always come. Especially when we're not anticipating it. Some of us think that after a hit, we'll just dust off our clothes, take a deep breath, and continue opera...

495 Oh how I wish I could summon mental clarity on the spot. Snap. Just like that. Writing daily is not an easy task. Most days, I don't have much time I can block out for writing, and thus, it's just hard to collect my thoughts often. Writing at 11pm (like now) doesn't work well for me. But there are so many moments when I wish I'd think more clearly. I don't know why, but I usually think clearly when I don't want to. Or at least don't need to. Sometimes I'm so lost in thought I can't eve...

494 I feel like I've written about this already. Or maybe I have, but in my mind. Either way, this is something that we need all to be reminded about. So let's go, again (or not). Being nice is nice. It doesn't require much from us: just a simple smile. A more polite way of saying the same thing. Holding the door for someone. Simple, but impactful. By being nice we show that we care. Not only about the person we're being nice to, but also humanity as a whole. That we respect what it means to...

493 I love technology, I always did. Some ma call me a 'tech enthusiast', and I kinda agree with that. I'm an excited tech early adopter, but at the same time a staunch digital minimalist. Best of both worlds if you ask me. There's one 'innovation' technology brought us that I truly hate: feeds. The infinitely-scrollable, constantly refreshing, AI-generated feeds. Those feeds. The sewers, as I like to call them. Those feeds are a mess. The information there is not presented in a coherent way,...

492 These days, it feels like we're thinking as often as we're breathing; all the time. There is a difference: we have to breathe constantly, but not think constantly. Thoughts can be left alone for some time and nothing bad will happen. Here's an exercise for ya: set up four different random timers for the day. And when they ring, note down if you're thinking and what you're thinking about. As simple as it gets. Then repeat that a few days in a row. What you'll most likely see is that you (a...

491 Today I found this glorious diagram on Twitter: It's so simple, so obvious. We all know it, yet we all seem to constantly forget about this simple truth. If you can't do anything about a problem, then don't care. Notice one thing about the diagram: when your answer is "I don't know", it also points you to I don't care. That's important. Often, when we're unsure about a problem; its importance, impact, potential resolution, we still try to meddle with it. Which is a senseless way of act...

490 Sometimes I fight. Rarely with other people, more often with myself. I fight about all kinds of things. Sometimes they're menial, sometimes they're visionary. But, to be honest, most often I'm fighting about some unimportant thingy thing. Ah, the beauty of being human. In a normal fight, one of the parties has to lose while the other has to win. It wouldn't be a fight without that. But, what happens if there's only one party? In this case, me? Welp, it doesn't usually go so well. Fighti...

489 Perfection, no matter how we imagine it, is impossible to achieve in this world. There's always something to improve, period. Of course, everything has a state of good enough, but perfection, as a state, is unachievable. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool, sorry. It took me a while to realize this, I admit. A few years. Or even more, who knows really. Maybe I'm still sometimes not getting it? Either way, it's not that easy to say au revoir to perfection. When I look at people who've n...

488 I consumed a shit ton of content today. Maybe it's hard to admit, but that's what happened. I'm sick (looks like the common cold, but who knows, mighe be even COVID), and so I've been sitting all day in the house. Which was a pretty unusual experience for me - even during quarantine I was going out everyday (I live far away from other people). Needless to say, I couldn't focus on almost anything important all day. Other than writing this blog post, I truly didn't do anything meaningful to...

487 Taking precautions is an interesting thing to do. Some people do that whenever they can, others don't think it's worth it. In Polish we have a saying: przezorny zawsze ubezpieczony, roughly meaning: the cautious is always insured. There's a lot of truth in that. Sometimes even the smallest precaution might change the course drastically; save lives, even. In many scenarios, being cautious is just good for us. But how cautious is too cautious? When does taking precautions become dangerous ...

486 Taking things slow, pondering, reflecting is a good approach to life. Adding some self-consciousness makes us stronger, smarter, and more agile. But it's important to know when to get out of this meandering state and make swift decisions. Knowing and understanding these warning signs is no easy task; missing them is something we've all done in the past. It's easy to be decisive when we've got an audience watching us. It's hard to be decisive when we're floating through space. Decide to...

485 Sometimes there are moments in life when it feels like something else is pushing us forward. Not our internal drive, but some external, hard-to-understand force. Sometimes this might come from the everyday rush. The rush itself is a powerful force, once we get things rolling it might be hard to stop. From time to time we find a stronger, deeper force. Something that seems to be coming completely from the outside, yet it knows where to hit, where to assist us in the journey. It's hard to ...

484 Writing is a fascinating thing to do. Telling stories, imagining scenarios, trying to make somebody feel like they're in a different world. All through words that are written down. Without anybody delivering them. Because of that, everybody has their own version of the story, their own way of reading the words. No one piece of art can be interpreted the same way by hundreds. Everything can be anything. A writer, an artist, can only suggest. We use tools making up our craft to suggest you, ...

483 Versatility is sometimes a trait above all traits. Somebody versatile is able to continually grow, ask, debate, but also, at the same time, not spread themselves too thin. I've always wanted to be versatile. In my mind, it was one of the ultimate aspects a person could have. Always admiring the versatile, not living within their self-imposed limits, but rather constantly exploring the world with a fresh and open mind. But this pursuit has not always been beneficial. It's so easy to loo...

482 I've recently delved into the topic of internal capacities. A concept of how much of something we can internally handle. We all have limits. Sometimes we wish we didn't have them, but, in the end, we do. Some of us can't spend much time with other people. Others get overwhelmed by their senses easily. Some have stronger bodies, some do not. There are tens of different capacities we have all at the same time. We all get a quite similar amount of "energy" sent into our "batteries" every da...

481 Sometimes it feels like we crave contact, yet are too afraid to establish it. What's even weirder is that we are more connected than ever before. It's so easy to reach out. Maybe it's all just too much; too many options generate overwhelm. Maybe it's because we're getting into more and more "low optionality" friendships, where not much contact is present, and thus not much bonding occurs. Either way, it's very important to remember to reach out. To your online idol. To that friend you ...

480 There's significant beauty in the mundane, the everyday. It's easy to overlook and disregard that, but I'm slowly learning how to cherish those moments. I've come to love cycling. It's such a beautiful thing to do: movement at a speed that's fast, yet very human, still. But it's also a great time to think, to process. But I don't like to handle the big stuff, yuck. It's the little things, the simple ones, the boring ones I think about. And it's not really thinking, soaking up reality, so...

479 Something hit me today; I have become flexible with my values. It took time to establish them, sure. It was not and still is not an easy feat. And they're not yet done, of course. They need to be constantly refined and polished, with every step of the journey, as perspectives and truths get revealed. Since I established them, I kind of always had them in the back of my head. It's not that I was afraid of stuff outside my core values, but I just wasn't super inclined to do that. Maybe pe...

478 Over-thinking and over-intellectualism are hiding everywhere in today's world. More and more of us suffer from anxiety, worrying about things out of our control. Sometimes, doesn't it feel like it's impossible to escape? Like everything around us is designed to make us worry, go in circles? Thinking is pretty nice. Getting lost in your thoughts is kind of... beautiful. Yet too much of anything, but especially thinking, can wreck one's psyche. Here I'd like to introduce the concept of un-...

477 It's incredibly easy to loose track of your progress. How much ahead we've gone since the past. Sometimes it feels like we're not progressing at all. That everything is stable, in the same place. We crave some growth, adventure. Yet, growth is almost always there. As humans, we're always getting better at something. It may not be the thing we want to be getting better at, but it's there. Noticing, and then praising somebody's progress is incredibly fulfilling. Both for you, and for the ...

476 A few days ago I expressed my admiration for the incredibly dynamic lives most of us live. Sure, it may be tiring, but still, we do a lot. Yet, there's one big downside of constant motion; not being able to see the bigger picture. It's just impossible to focus your attention both at the things moving all around you and the larger picture. One needs to stop, detangle, and gain perspective. Gaining perspective is a process I started to particularly enjoy these past few months. Getting a...

475 Everybody wants to be cool. Yet nobody knows what cool truly means. So we just pretend we are cool, and some other people are not. What a fun, but stupid thing to do. We just can't contain our egos, can't we? The ones that are the most cool are usually the most anxious, unsure if they'll be able to stay in their cool position. No thank you. But when you try to go a different way, you're at least ignored, but usually just excluded. Because you don't want to be cool. But then, all thos...

474 In a world where immediacy is omnipresent, we like to constantly interact with other people. Whenever they share their thoughts, either through speaking or writing, we can't resist participating in the conversation. There has to be some communication, too. We can't let thoughts just be, especially when they're more or less related to us. Yet, there are two, very different way in which we can continue the conversation; by reacting or responding. I feel like these two actions are so mixed ...

473 "What did I do wrong?" is a phrase I hear quite often from people around me. To be perfectly honest; I've used it many times, too. This phrase and the mindset that comes with it assumes that something is already done; it happened, and there is no chance to fix it. We quickly move into the autopsy phase and try to deduct the cause of death. Sure, there are so many aspects of life where things can happen in stages, where there is a clear boundary between what is done and what is not. Mo...

472 Since I came back from vacation, I've been cycling a lot these past few days. No COVID-in-public-transit for me. And, actually, since the weather is still pretty nice, I enjoy using my bike as the main mode of transportation. I get a looooot of exercise, too! My daily average is around 35 kilometers - how nice! To be honest, while we have new and modern public transit vehicles here in Krakow, the routes are not usually very fast - I'm often faster on my bike. Today was my first real crash ...

471 Decisions can be tough; we all have faced some really tough ones in our lives, no doubt. They hide around every corner, often appearing in the toughest moments. That's just how it is, oh dear. A bigger problem I often notice is not evaluating the importance of the decision itself. We often jump into decision-making hastily. The urge to have a decision already made, and, more often, a clear outcome is just too powerful for many of us. We descend into the particulars, weigh the pros and con...

470 A habit, once created, stays in our brain for ever. We can 'overwrite' it with a new, better one, but still, in the end, it will stay there in our head. Sometimes, an old bad pattern can come back, even after a really long time. If the circumstances are similar to those associated with the habit, its likely it will occur automatically, without our control. Old patterns come back, especially when we think we've just beaten them. After coming out of a bad habit, there is usually a second w...

469 As I've been away these past few weeks, I started to see more clearly how much we hustle. How we go places, do stuff, talk with people. A lot of stuff is happening all at the same time. It hit me today, as I was cycling through the city doing some errands. Everybody is in constant motion; stillness seems to be a fleeting virtue. All of this is exciting, energizing, so to say. I can feel the shared energy. I can tap into it and use it to do real stuff. Sometimes I feel like life without...

468 Late August through early September is storm season here in Central Europe. We don't get tornadoes, cyclones or hurricanes. Just regular thunderstorms. Still, they can and often do get very powerful. Low-lying regions get flooded, various blackouts occur. Some houses loose their roofs. For the past three years or so, I've spent a lot of time observing the storms. How they form, when they come, how they hit. I'm no meteorologist, of course; I'm an artist all the way. My interpretation is m...

467 Hey! This is issue #1 of my old newsletter, INSFB, published June 2020. This is the last "filler" post - I'm back from travelling and back at regular, everyday writing. See you tomorrow! Rules There's one question that is boggling my mind, and to be honest it has boggled me ever since I became truly conscious about my life. How should I live? What rules should I adopt? Which philosophy?  I need rules. I need something to fall back on when my common sense fails. It will fail, because t...

466 Hey! This is issue #17 of my old newsletter, INSFB, published February this year. Enjoy! I've been away. Away from this blog and the ever-changing responsibilities. Had time to think, or, should I say, rethink The Balance. A year has ended, a new one just begun. As I was finishing up my year-end review, I realized how incredibly important all my work has been. All the habits I built, all the projects I worked on. It's so easy to neglect the small things.  I worked hard in 2019. Pushed ...

465 Hey! This is issue #16 of my old newsletter, INSFB, published December 2019. Enjoy! This week I fully realized how important a daily rhythm is. Since January, after finishing Atomic Habits I slowly started working on my habits. Not that they were terribly bad, but I had very little control over them. Felt the need to eat a cookie? I was immediately going downstairs to the kitchen. The autopilot turned on. Zero self-control. Felt anxious? I was on the doorstep of a fast-food restaurant ...

464 Hey! This is issue #15 of my old newsletter, INSFB, published November 2019. Enjoy! Oh, there's just so much going on... So many projects all at once... Yet, I still need to grow. It'd be very easy to say no to reading, writing, exercising, spending time with family, meditating etc. I could just say yes to all work, focusing all my time and effort on completing these pretty damn important things. But I'm not giving up. There are things that seem important at first, but they're essentiall...

463 Hey! This is Issue #13 of my old newsletter, published November 2019. Enjoy! Today's issue is going to be short. Right now I'm in a car, driving through southeastern Poland, not really having the energy to write anything. But, here I am. Usually, it's pretty easy for me to write these issues every single Sunday. I consider taking time off a very important thing, and so, Sundays are free from work. I wake up around 7 am (instead of the usual 5am), start the day with a slow-paced run, sit...

462 Hey! This is Issue #9 of my old newsletter, published October 2019. In the past few issues I've been complaining a bit. Not much, but still more than usual. During a vacation I recently undertook I've tried to answer the question; how have the past few months been? Did I grow? Did I fulfill my mission? Or was I doing too much? I did eventually find an answer. I also wondered; what am I committing to? Are my commitments good? Turns out I'm committing to a lot of different things. I write ...

461 Overthinking is a problem I've struggled with for a long time. Countless nights spent on senseless projections of the future, countless amounts of anxiety. I am not ashamed of it, it's something that I am slowly working on. Every minute spent in the present is a small win. Altogether, they signify the progress. During these past few years, I started observing this habit more diligently. Daily journaling certainly helped - think about doing that if you're also struggling with overthinking (...

460 Quite a few of us seem to be constantly pursuing something. It may be happiness, fulfillment, redemption, balance (haha!), pleasure, success, and practically everything else. Constantly working towards that projected "state" - inching closer day by day. What if, for a while, we didn't pursue anything? Only pursuing existence itself? Would that even be a pursuit if its after something already there? Step down from the treadmill. Sure - you want to be happy - so you pursue happiness - that...

459 In today's world, everything, or almost everything has to be immediate. You can get whatever you want with 1-day shipping, travel the entire world in a matter of hours, get matched with a date in seconds. The time it takes between posting a request, a decision, a thought, and its execution is shorter than ever before. We seem to expect quick success, easy money, high-speed travel, falling in love on a first date, making the right decision without much deliberation. Everything has to be no...

458 This is issue #5 of my old newsletter, INSFB. In it, I talked about establishing 'rules for life' - foundational principles for my thoughts and actions. This one was published in August 2019. Enjoy! Right, time for the real meat. Time to stop rambling about the duality and imperfectness of rules. Time to create something so incredibly smart and forward-thinking. Time to build the First Rule of My Life. But it ain't anything new. Or groundbreaking. My first rule is: Treat yourself at the ...

457 Hey! This is issue #2 of my old newsletter. I know it is a bit rambly, but I hope you'll enjoy it either way! Peace, as in the feeling that fills your world, head, and heart. We're often, if not always, driven by a few very strong emotions. Our hearts and minds are littered all the time with piles of stress, anger, regret, and all other negative emotions. We're addicted to them, so it seems. All that junk is taking up our mental space. Peace is the best antidote to that. When peace is,...

456 Hey! This is Issue #14 of my old newsletter, published December 2019, enjoy! I consider myself a naturally curious person. I read quite a lot, have hundreds of books in my house, listen to different podcasts, discuss & debate a lot, both with myself and with others. Of course, there are times when I'd like to be even more curious than I actually am. I've been thinking a lot about the current state of the world recently. Not politically, but knowledge-wise. The world, and especially...

455 This is Issue #9 of my old newsletter, published October 2019. Enjoy! Ok, I admit, I admit... I am overthinking stuff a little bit. While I did get rid of many anxieties (caused by overthinking), that plagued and ruined my daily life, there's still some stuff left. I like the concept of a conscious life, and that's what I'm striving for. That's why I'm writing this newsletter every week, trying to reflect on what I've done, why, and how.  But, maybe, I'm just trying too hard sometimes. ...

454 Hey! This is another post from my old newsletter. This one was issue #6, published September 2019. Enjoy! There's a book I'm currently exploring called The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People. While it's title definitely does sound very "self-help-y" it is truly a magnificent piece of writing. One of the greatest truths about life has been reinforced in me while I'm reading this book: You control you. You control your response to outside events. You decide how you'll respond to one's att...

453 Simplicity is a virtue of incredible power. It is a tool anyone looking for balance must comprehend and utilize. Simplifying physical things, mental processes, emotions, even, is a never-ending, but very rewarding process. It reduces all forms of overload, and allows us to reach the truest, most important essentials of life. Think of this as signal vs noise - simple = signal. And signal is all we want. Yet, there seems to be a common belief, intuitiveness, that simple means easy. It is qu...

452 Hey, this is another issue of my old INSFB newsletter. This one is called Projections of Failure and it was Issue #3. Enjoy! Do you want to fail? I suppose you probably don't. If not outright scaring, failure definitely isn't something you're enthusiastic to encounter, right? This is the wrong approach.  First of all, you will fail. Everyone does sometimes, and that's just how it is. Second, being scared of failure will make you only incredibly stressed out, and you will loose focus ...

451 Lately, I'm starting to feel like we're all living in our own, separate bubbles. I don't spend much time in the city these days. Nature is 100 times better. But still, occasionally, I have to do some stuff in the city. Two days ago, I was walking through Planty, a park that surrounds Krakow's Old Town. It's one of the main spots in the entire city - lot of people, tourists, cyclists. And even though we were all physically connected by our presence there, it seemed like everybody was in ...

450 Hey! Just a quick note here: I'm travelling now, and just taking time off before the next academic year kicks off in September. I'm not going to be writing new posts every day during these two weeks. Some days I'm going to "fill" with an old post from a newsletter I used to run, also called In Search For Balance, but otherwise not related to this blog. I already did that yesterday, a week ago, and two weeks ago. Hope you'll understand! I'll go back to the regular schedule sometime later in ...

449 There's one thing I can't stop thinking about: Going with the flow. As life happens, we have to adapt. Change our opinions, assumptions etc. Those that cannot change intrinsically will be left behind. That’s just how it is. To change, one needs to have an open mind. They have to be flexible, as some say. I cannot agree more with that idea. People that don’t change at all (in a conscious way) quite often harm themselves, and others. We’ll dive deeper into the concept of change next week. ...

448 The dilemma of luck vs skill is something I've been thinking about since a long, long time. Determining whether someone's "success" can be attributed to luck, skill, or both, is a tricky question with a tricky answer. As it often goes in life, I see people often adhering to one of the two polarized camps: either it's all luck, or all skill. A whole lot of people (including us, cynical Europeans) think that the richest got there just by pure chance. Another significant group, mostly America...

447 There is this very common belief that nothing is free. Unfortunately, in the business sense, I have to agree with it. Products marketed as "free" are never truly free. Either somebody else is paying for it, or your paying with something other than money; data, time, attention. Quite a few people unfortunately also translate that belief to personal relationships. They believe that whatever they do has to be later paid back in some way. You do me a favor, I do you a favor. Nothing we do is d...

446 I never was the "sporty" guy. Sure, I did love cycling and I was pretty good at yoga, but, in the end, I just never "clicked" on exercise. My family wasn't sporty either. During the past 1.5 years I started to slowly build, step by step, a habit of exercise. I go on daily walks, work standing up, and work out (almost) every day. It made me feel much better; more confident, more present, and more capable. Let's jump to today's story. Since early July, I had this unbroken streak of everyd...

445 In today's day and age, vertical comparisons are the norm. Everything is more or less of something. Specifically, people are always greater or lesser, either generally or in a particular aspect. Think of this as a ladder. The higher you are on there, the better you are as a human being. Or so we think. We say "she's smarter than me" or "he's prettier than me", or "I'm better than then". Or whatever combination of person + greater/lesser adjective + other person. It's the natural way to thi...

444 I feel ambivalent about quite a few things; that's life, I suppose. But there's one thing that I can't make up my mind on: marketing. On the one hand, I hate ads. I use powerful adblocking software on every device I use, I prefer to pay for services/apps/content to be delivered ad-free. I consider ads unnecessary noise that distracts me from what's important in this world. If an app has ads, but you can pay extra to remove them (as it happens often on Android), I will happily pay that fee....

443 Malcolm Gladwell, a great author and thinker has a podcast named Revisionist History, where he explores things misunderstood and overlooked. Recently, he published a three-part series about the Jesuits and their process of deliberating tough moral questions called casuistry.  Casuistry, more or less, is based on descending and deliberating the particulars of a case, not necessarily guiding through with principles in mind, but, of course not completely abandoning them. Rules matter As I'v...

441 When we think of companies, institutions, even individuals who have/had a great impact on the world, we usually think about them using the following formula: impact = footprint. The more money a company makes, the more people it must employ. The more people an NGO can reach, the more donations it must receive. The more awards an artist has received, the more beautiful art the can make. While this formula certainly is true in quite a few cases, I do think that we take it for granted to...

440 Love is misunderstood. It's often mistaken for affection, mutuality, respect. Love often speaks, but hardly says. We want it to say something. We push, apply force. And we break it. It's a liquid solid that evaporates. Not a word, not a feeling, not an emotion. A reality, of sorts. Listen, don't speak. ...

439 I've been thinking a long time whether I should write this post. Overall, the pandemic has been awful. A lot of people have died, a lot more are going to die. Millions are unemployed. It's bad, and overall, I wish it didn't happen. I am still somewhat worried by the fact that I might contract the disease. This is not fun, by all means. But, in every tragedy there is a shed of light. For me, personally, a lot of pretty good this have happened. I am grateful for them just as I'm grateful for...

438 Life is a dance. We don't go only back and forth. We go in all directions, combining little movements into bigger steps. But you can't dance without music. It guides you, gives you a rhythm to follow. The moves are still yours. The music exists in the form of values, culture, religion, ethics. It's the thing that guides us, gives us a tempo. Lately, I feel like we're all listening to completely different music. Everybody is dancing with noise-cancelling headphones on. Sometimes crashing...

437 Someone recently asked me about a term I use in my Twitter bio. What do you mean by singletasker? Let me tell you a story; a long time ago, when I was very fresh to the concept of productivity, multitasking was the hot word. There were books on how to "effectively" multitask, there were countless videos, posts, and podcasts talking about the magic of getting multiple things done at the same time. Everybody wanted to learn these magical tricks, so the productivity gurus were happily pro...

436 One of the most important values in life is the difference between action and motion. One of my favorite books, Atomic Habits by James Clear talks about that a lot. First of all, we have to debunk one of the most common myths about productivity. It’s not about doing more in a lesser amount of time, but about doing the right things. To be honest, this asks more questions than it answers. Yes, maximizing your efficiency is not a simple task, but doing the right things can be even harder. Wh...

435 I aspire to be an artist in everything I do; creating, synthesizing, instead of replicating what's already there. Being creative, that is. Through thorough observation and analysis of existing things, creating something new. What is original, btw?. Writing this blog forces me do that in some way. While the number of truly "breakthrough" posts is not very high, each and every one is an original, personal take on a particular issue. Creativity is a powerful force. Yet, it seems to be a fo...

434 Is a word I think we don't use often enough. To be honest, until I intentionally started using it, the word never appeared on my radar. I knew what it meant in a technical manner, but I didn't use it. Reciprocity is a concept seemingly so basic in our nature, yet something we seem to have lost, almost completely. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster: Definition of reciprocity 1: the quality or state of being reciprocal : mutual dependence, action, or influence 2: a mutual exchan...

433 There's this very common tool out there called the Wheel of life. It asks you to evaluate separate areas of your life, e.g. "family", "health", "finance", "personal growth" etc. You give each area a number ranging from 1 to 10, creating what is basically a chart of your life. Here's an example from this site While overall this tool is certainly quite useful (it definitely is very popular), I think that this two-dimensional approach might not be very sustainable. See, the Wheel of Life pr...

432 Today, while vacuuming (many great ideas started there), I started thinking about our participation in the physical world. Our interactions with things we own; how we tend to them, how we care about them. Everything physical we own in our lives has a basic monetary value. Almost anything can be sold in exchange for money. Yet, we usually evaluate things on two different scales: usefulness, and sentiment. Let's do a little thought experiment. Ask yourself: what are the most important thing...

431 "Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." I've been thinking about the problem of borrowing from the future lately. It's a problem we've all encountered sometime in the past; and probably still encounter to this day. Whether it's delaying some important tasks, like in the quote above, or sprinting too hard, we all suck at this. We fail again and again, not being able to learn from our mistakes. I think that "borrowing from the future" is a inna...

430 It's okay to be proud. It's mandatory to be humble. -- Humility is something we don't think about too often; these days, every success, or even simply anything, gets touted loudly. Is it just me, or have we kind of ruined celebration as a concept by sharing absolutely everything online? Once someone succeeds, they might be overwhelmed with that success. Or maybe not. Either way, it's very easy to become full of yourself once success is something you take for granted. Ego is the enemy. ...

429 Today I came across this magnificent quote: Pain that is not transformed is transferred This is something I've encountered many, many times during the past couple of years. There have been many moments of pain. Of disappointment, disbelief, bleeding. As with (I think) most of us. Sometimes, things just get hard, no matter if this is caused by us, other humans, or some unpredictable outside things. Pain is a symptom. It's a signal our body uses to show us that something is wrong; this a...

428 Oh have I written about this so many times already... You control you. Or at least the way you react to outside things. This is not a huge revelation; I know. But it's still something we tend to forget over and over. Because, honestly, not letting outside things control you is just not that easy. What is easy is 'going with the flow' - letting outside events, people, preconceived notions, traditions (what the heck that even means) control ourselves. Taking ownership is never easy, right?...

427 Learning, or gaining new knowledge (however you wanna call it) is a fundamental part of being human. Without constantly improving, looking for things not yet discovered, a life quickly becomes meaningless. Or at least, dull. So, if we all have to be constantly learning, we sure know how to do it, right? Yes and no. Let's look at the way we've been learning by default during the last one hundred years; systematically. Everything was divided into subjects, which then were divided into cour...

426 I have to admit; I get tunnel vision a lot. Way more often than I'd like. Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself here. See, in some scenarios tunnel vision is incredibly good. It lets me finish things quickly and solidly. Many times I've had 'moments of clarity', where I was able to blaze through the idea -> creation -> verification -> shipping in a matter of minutes. And do it considerably well. Unfortunately, tunnel vision has been kicking in way too often. In conversations, relations...

425 These days, the default approach to life is always about having more. More resources, more experiences, more connections. We're constantly seeking newer, better, more grandiose experiences and material objects. Seemingly never satisfied with what is already there. Today is just a quick reminder to appreciate the things, people, experiences, and memories we already have. No matter how much they align with our perfectionist desires. Hedonism, basically the simplest approach to finding meanin...

424 Emotions are a very human thing. We all have them, no matter how "rough" or "concrete" we may seem to others. There's no denying of that fact. Emotions help us understand how things truly are, through deeper connection and consideration. Most of our emotions can be labeled either as positive or negative, yet, most days, we get a gray soup consisting of all of them. What we feel needs to play out. Inside, and outside our whimsy self. Keeping them in, forcing them to stay buried somewhere de...

423 Think about the number of times when enjoyable things stopped being enjoyable. When truth was impossible to separate from lies. When good seemed to be bad. Well, there's one thing that comes in handy in all of these situations: contrast. The process of putting two completely different, opposing things side by side is no quantum computing. It's been there practically since the beginning of this world. We all know how to do it, but not really when to do it. See, contrast is powerful. Withou...

422 I acknowledge my privilege of being able to wake up ever single day peacefully, not having to worry about basic things, and being able to enjoy the fact that I am alive, every day. I acknowledge my privilege to pursue what I'm interested in, to be able to do not only what I have to do, but also what I want to do. I acknowledge my privilege of being able to enjoy peace. Both internally, and externally, through everyone and everything that surrounds me. I acknowledge my privilege of havin...

421 Sometimes I feel like we're all waiting for something. For a change; for something different, something new. Don't get me wrong; there is nothing bad in anticipation. It can be a beautiful thing, for sure. There are so many things worth waiting for in life; and it's certainly no good to rush in those situations. But, what if anticipation intentionally or unintentionally turns into infinite postponement? What if, waiting becomes not doing? Don't hold your breath for too long, you may suf...

420 A life has to be real to be good, right? Sometimes, we all wish some things were different about the things we do. We like to "spice things up" in our imaginations. Is this just because of boredom? Or maybe something worse, an unstoppable drive for more? A fantasy is only that, a fantasy. But what real effects it might have? Everything that relates to the real world, is in some sense, real. Slowly crossing over the line of reality. What is even real, if anything that relates to reality,...

419 Who killed truth? We did it. We did it by ignoring slow change. By not getting out of our comfort zones and asking questions, proactively. By letting things slide. We were never good at this; whenever something urgent, but not necessarily important popped up, we shifted our focus to it. We ignored change that was happening over many lifetimes. Well, it was hard to see - someone may say. Yes, hard, but not impossible. That's a difference. Thinking about the future was always somebody else...

418 I have been planning almost every single day for the past 2.5 years. Here, I said it. What planning has taught me about life is that knowing your intentions is a critical thing to do every single day. That while doing things for the sake of doing is oftentimes good, knowing what you care about and sticking to it is crucial. Why? Being intentional usually means adhering to your core values. Why should someone adhere to their core values? Because it makes taking action in live easier. You k...

417 I affirm every day that: I am not perfect. I am just a a regular being. I grow through doing mistakes. I am trying to be best for everyone and anyone around me. There isn't a single thing I am doing 100% right or 100% wrong. If I only listen to my ambitions, I won't get anywhere. Today I have a chance to fix what went wrong yesterday. If I help someone today, someone will help me tomorrow. Just the fact that I am here is a miracle I'm incredibly grateful for. I won't be remembered...

416 There are three houses on a hill. Each overlooks a different slope of the hill, but all are pretty close together. They seem to have been built all at the same time. The first one is tiny, but full of little details. There are few rooms, and all of them are not spacious. The staircase is so steep and tiny that someone inexperienced can easily fall down. Yet everything there seems to have a meaning. A purpose. No single object has been left there without a specific purpose. The second one...

415 We were hiking today with some friends. At a certain point, to our deep disappointment, we reached a Private Property sign. We simply wanted to take a shortcut, but our map didn't show that it was actually no public road or path there. But the map showed that just a few hundred meters behind that private property was a dirt road we could use to save us roughly 40 minutes of walking. So we went there: no sign, no gate. "Public road it is!" so we thought. After a while we encountered a group...

414 In general, it's pretty good to create boundaries between certain things in life. Making sure that our days and actions don't all blend together into a meaningless blob is a task everyone has to take on. In my view, there are three key aspects of intentional separation: Aspect number one: Time. Every single activity that we do takes a certain amount of time. No "thing" lasts zero seconds, and very few last forever, at least in the human time scale. Being intentional about the amount of ...

413 Sometimes I feel like there is a game of ping-pong going on my in head. Two players on opposite sides of a table; each holding a paddle in their hand, passing a tiny ball, back and forth. Ping, pong. Ping, pong. They both look exactly the same, but they're dressed in different colors. One is dressed in lighter clothes, the other in darker ones. Ping, pong. Ping, pong. Sometimes they're passing the ball aggressively; others, very lightly. With grace. When they tense up, you can see tha...

412 For those of us who have a tendency to speak & act as fast as possible, the whole idea of slowing down and stopping to think may seem counterproductive. The best time to do something is always now, right? One thing I have found very important when dealing with tough issues is this: Make sure whether or not I am the most qualified person to handle the issue I'm dealing with. Even when the issue directly relates to me, or is simply, about me, I still might not be the best person to han...

412 Taking action is not hard. It may seem to be, but that's only because it is not the default option these days. I don't know if this is just a sign of the times, but I feel like we are too often mixing up intent with impact these days. We all "mean to do well", right? According to my belief, everyone is a good person and we should trust them by default. And so, following that philosophy, everyone's intent should be good, too. In my humble opinion, most people truly wish to do good. But on...

411 Life is a dance. Sometimes you go forward, sometimes backward, others you spin around in the same place. While every single second is unique, many fall into similar patterns; so-called "life cycles". There are things that repeat themselves, simply. That is how this world is built and there is no way around it. Embracing the circularity is essential. Sometimes we go slow, sometimes we go fast. Every step is different; yet all follow a pattern. Like a dance. We don't know how long will th...

410 Sometimes things pile up all at once. Like a tsunami. You'd like to rest, calm down, but you can't. There are important things to do. I have been thinking a lot about certain things these days. Stil processing. To a better world. ...

409 Inaction is worse than action. To all who are too lazy, too afraid, or too stubborn, here's something: Waiting is lazy. There will never be a better time to act. Now is always the time to change. "Someday maybe" means never. A status quo hurts. Deceives everyone into believing everything is good because "it's been like that for ages". While making the vulnerable bleed. You can't be in "the middle". That means nowhere. Real change happens on the frontlines. You'll be gone from this pla...

408 I find tremendous beauty in the idea development process. Seeing ideas grow, starting slowly as a simple thought, almost impossible to imagine. In the end, transforming into world-changing things. When is the right time to "ship" an idea? Make it public? Launch the product? Establish the organization? On one hand, there are folks who like to wait until absolutely everything is absolutely perfect. Every part of the thing has to, in their own mind, be completely complete. Absolute perfecti...

407 I used to have a tendency to say whatever came across my mind. To always speak right after thinking. Sometimes even the other way. Many people do this. We hear something we don't like; we immediately speak our first mind. Things that incite strong emotions, whether positive or negative, are almost impossible to pass on. It's both tempting, and easy to speak right away. Well, it hardly ever truly works out. Sure, it does let the emotions out, which is something we don't do enough, but ulti...

406 Someone recently told me: "Oh, working from your home office is so pleasing! Thoughts just... flowed". And damn, this was a pretty great complement. It means for me that, truly, my workspace is pretty damn well designed, so that not only I feel the results, but even outside people do. It's easy to call someone a "genius" because of their incredible skills. There have been plenty of geniuses over the centuries. And sure, a better portion of their incredible success can be attributed to the...

405 Our society is hardwired around the concept of victory. Contests, elections, bids, competitions, and almost everything else are all built on winning. On the very simple idea of a winner - someone who receives all of the positives, and a loser - someone who receives nothing in a best case scenario, very often getting all the negatives attributed with the wider outcome. Winning is fun. It's quite easy to motivate oneself to do something, when there is a clear, probably achievable, "packet" o...

404 It's very common to celebrate in my (Central European) culture. We have many, many different national, religious & local holidays. Events such as birthdays, weddings, or graduation parties are hugely and lavishly celebrated. A celebration is, by definition, something special. We celebrate extraordinary events, extraordinary people. That's what makes celebrating such a unique and quite pleasurable experience for most. I think that we don't celebrate enough. Our lives are worth celeb...

403 Everything in life deserves an ending, a wrap-up. Life can feel pretty "fluid" - time passes without our involvement, many things happen "automatically". After day comes night, and after that, day again. I feel like many people, after finishing education, fall into this trap of constant work - there isn't this thing called "summer break", a perfect time for a wrap-up. It's always another day of menial work after another. What if things were different? What if we would let everyone take me...

402 There's this new fancy email app called Hey. For people that deal with a lot of email, it might be a lifesaver - it's a complete rethink of email. Now, I don't get very many emails. I do get quite a few every day, but it's not like I'm drowning - a substantial chunk of my online communication happens through messaging apps. But this app is just... Delightful. It's very well thought out, incredibly fast, and nicely designed. I get joy from sending emails now. Communicating with people onl...

401 There is a lot of value in an individual break, as I've described not too long ago while going through my sabbatical. Such breaks allow for deeper self-discovery, mindful rest, and thoughtful processing of things going on around us. Yet, a group break is useful too. It's really good to know that you're entire team is resting all at the same time. Once in a while, every 7 or 8 weeks, a week-long, company-wide sabbatical might be just the thing your team as a whole needs. See, a group break ...

400 After all those days of writing, I have become a strict believer in practice. It's the best, and the only really effective method of learning, improvement. There are many people in the world who promise to "fast-track" your success. They write articles about "10 Tips for Life", promising a quick and easy fix for all your problems, and a shortcut for getting into new things. You can find hundreds of thousands of different posts, podcasts, courses & more about quick and easy improvement....

399 I recently started listening to Cal Newport's new podcast, Deep Questions. It's a relaxed, free form "conversation" between Cal and his readers. Well, it's only Cal talking, but he's answering questions submitted by other people through his mailing list, so technically it is a conversation. While there is a lot of wisdom shared on that podcast - seriously, go listen to it - there is one prevailing theme which can be applied to almost every question submitted: The Deep Life. I won't explai...

398 Social interactions have become much more interesting these days. There is just this wholly new level of complexity related to social distancing; how close should I stay? Should I put on gloves now? Is it appropriate to meet here? We have to think about things we've never had to think about before. Now that's fun, isn't it? I do believe that wearing face masks is vitally important in preventing a second wave. Yes, they're not perfect; the virus can transmit through them, but overall they l...

397 Things are supposedly coming back to what they were before the pandemic; reopening is well underway in my home country and all around the world. I am dealing with to conflicting feelings in this weird (maybe even weirder than 2 months ago) period. On one hand, I am really, really glad that I can slowly start enjoying the magic of social life: working from a coffeeshop, inviting my friends over for a game night etc. By having those things taken away for a substantial amount of time, I'm en...

396 Whenever I think of a good life, it always includes strong relationships as one of its main points. Without other people, no single person can live an intentional and meaningful life without building strong, honest relations with other people. Trust is a key part of that relation-building process. Without it, no meaningful relationships can be built. Alongside respect, trust is the key value of true interdependence. I can't say this for the whole world, but in the country where I come fr...

395 No big breakthrough message today. Just a very important reminder: don't put off stuff you care about. It'll always come back and kick you in the butt. The kick is not a light one. Whenever you put off, procrastinate on, delay, or however else we wanna call that, you cast a vote against the person you want to become. You semi-consciously delay the great effects action, all action has. Life in the physical aspect has an end we're sure of. Wouldn't it be nice to feel like that life wasn't ...

394 One of the best things about writing a daily blog is the ability of going back, reminding yourself of past posts, and just having a chance for some retrospection. Today is my birthday. The day was good, got a chance to rest and enjoy life. Yet, all day long I couldn't stop thinking about how much more vividly I remember last year's birthday than the one before that. Behind every post there's a much bigger story on my end. It takes a lot of time for an idea to surface, get refined. If I w...

393 In 1990, McDonalds stopped frying their French Fries in animal fat, as a global campaign against heavy fats was progressing. A lot of people believed and still believe they're harmful, especially for older folks. See, fries fried in deep, heavy, animal oil taste incredibly. They're very crunchy on the outside, and perfectly fluffy on the inside. That's why we started to love them so much: they combined two completely different textures we've never experienced before together. Plant-based o...

392 The main problem we have with rest is that we don't treat it with respect. We don't respect it's importance, it's value. We treat work as this kind of a holy, majestic thing we do. We talk about work whenever we can; for a lot of folks, where they work defines who they are. In the western world, we very often start conversations with: "Hey, I'm Jim, I work in accounting". Not "Hey, I'm Jim, I'd love to learn more about y'all today". We do not have unlimited power. Maybe, sometimes, some...

391 Letting go of something we ourselves have created is never easy. There is just this special connection between you and something you created from start to finish. And the bigger the project is, the more time you've poured into it, the harder it is to let it go away graciously. Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. My biggest Internet project to date, Produktywny Uczeń just finished it's first podcast season. It was a decision I was wrestling with till the last minute: should I end? or should I ...

390 This is the last post about my sabbatical. Promise :D The week is slowly ending, and so is my break. It has been the first truly planned breaks (excluding national holidays) I've had in a long, long time. I feel so much in love with it, that next academic year I'm going to work in these 6 or 7 week cycles, where I take a week long sabbatical at the end. Rest is essential, "powering through" never really works. There is one very important lesson I've learned during this break: no planning...

389 June has always been a month of reflection for me. A few key events collide in June: my birthday, the academic year ends here in Poland, and a few of my closest friends also have their birthdays. It's a 30-day period of finishing up not-yet-done things, reflecting on the whole past year, and deciding where to go next. While I do also get this feeling during late December/early January, it is usually stronger in June. So, basically, I get two major reflections a year. But, while in Decemb...

388 Life has been good for me during quarantine, I can't complain. There are many, many others that had and continue having it worse. A lot of things surely have been unusual, but overall I managed to get through pretty well. The past week was horrible. Mentally, physically, emotionally. I was so drained out that focusing on anything was almost impossible. Yet I was trying to push through: going to all my meetings, trying to complete my daily tasks, keeping up with routines, etc. This week I...

387 I'm currently re-reading Digital Minimalism, a fantastic book about living a more focused, less stressful & more mindful life by using technology in a truly purposeful and thoughtful way. 1.5 years ago I did a planned digital detox - 30 days with no social media & limited online presence. It's one of the key steps in becoming a digital minimalist. During that thirty-day process you reevaluate the role of social media and all the other digital stuff you might use. It's a tough exper...

386 Life is hard. Especially when we're juggling many things at once - balance is hard to achieve. 386 days into writing this blog and I'm still looking for it - what a chore! Our brain is not a machine. It's more of an elusive, sometimes oblivious to facts, easily distracted, impulsive mess. We can't see things always how they are, we can't sort incoming information into carefully created boxes. It's all a never-ending mess. Everything is tangled together like different yarns put together h...

385 Woah. What a weekend. One of the worst, but ultimately the best since a long time. For various reasons, it was just hard. I couldn't really get myself to do anything in any aspect of my life. It was the true epitome of feeling bad, knowing what caused it, but doing considerably little to change it. Well, happens. At the end of the weekend I got a chance to have a real, honest conversation. Something I kind of lacked during the past few months - let's be honest: opening up via Zoom is jus...

384 I don't, truly. I started to get more and more into the "content creation" world sometime around a year ago. I started making podcasts, writing blog posts, organizing events etc. And I started to surround myself with people that do the same. Don't get me wrong: most of them are truly amazing people, but I think I can't 100% get along them. I remember being asked by one person some time ago: why don't you put your face on your productivity website and start building your personal brand? W...

383 Sometimes, it's good to do absolutely nothing. I'm one of those people that can easily fill up all of their time with stuff. Got some spare time? I'll grab a book, listen to a podcast, talk to a friend, go for a walk, or, less often, clean up my surroundings. Most of these things are good, and I should be doing them. But they stop being so valuable when they start filling out every single living minute of one's life. I did not do any of these things today. In fact, I did absolutely nothi...

382 In my search for balance, I've been coming back many times to the where, or rather, when, are you living?. Technically, we all live in the present. Yet so many of us spend time constantly re-living events from the past, or hypothesizing about things that might happen in the future. We rarely even notice this, to our dismay. There's nothing wrong in dreaming about the future sometimes. Or intensely thinking about our memories from the past, sometimes. But there's a lot of wrong in doing th...

381 The longer I live here on this planet, the more I'm starting to believe that almost everything in life is cyclical. That both our own selves, and the natural world around us are constantly going in cycles, revolving around a not-so-clearly defined center. It's this rotational energy that propels the world forward; it makes us move forward on the timeline. Time ruthlessly move forward every second, while we wander around in circles, always going back to the starting point. But is it, tru...

380 For me, these past few months have been a time of deep reflection, refinement, so to say. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I've been doing wrong during the past few years. Went back-to-back through all of the thins that happened, all of the decisions I made, people I met etc. And during this pretty weird period, for the first time in a long, long time, I felt congruent with my whole self and the world around me. It's the feeling that tells that you're doing the right th...

379 Some things just hurt. No matter how tough, how unmovable you might consider yourself to be, things will hurt you. Sometimes, we may feel like everything hurts. That's when we suffer. Suffering is an awful state. No matter if inflicted by other people, or by things out of our control, it always sucks. It compresses our whole being to a mere projection of who we truly are. I'll be honest: I kinda live under a rock. I hardly ever read the news, use social media sparingly; I just prefer to ...

378 I've been thinking more and more about growth and what it truly means these past few days. How often do we think that we're growing, improving, when we're just building up our ego? Just satisfying our desires to be seen? This is a trap no one can avoid. As humans, we're all flawed. It's truly impossible to always to good things and do them without any ulterior motives. The snails. Well, they're simply those who do not indulge themselves in "overnight success", they simply walk slowly, ...

377 I feel like in life there are two quite clearly defined "states" in which we exist. The first state is the state of accelerated improvement, where with every single action that we take, with every decision we make, we become better people. Because we know what we want, how we want it, and how it benefits us and others. And while there are many, many challenges along the way, we persevere in our life mission. It's the state of conscious existence. Of intentional growth, whenever and however...

376 Sometime ago I encountered this idea of Transactional Analysis and Life Positions. I don't remember the entirety of this concept, as it was definitely more advanced and complicated than what I'm going to write about today. But one of the things I remember were the four different "states" of acceptance: I'm not okay, you're not okay I'm okay, you're not okay I'm not okay, you're okay I'm okay, you're okay These "states" basically determine how we approach everyone (including ourselves),...

375 This week I've been thinking a lot about the idea of staying small, having less & not chasing growth. Both in personal life and in business. We live in a society where having more is considered successful. More money, a bigger house, a bigger business. And while in the area of personal life minimalism has been growing strong, in business this concept is still incredibly uncommon. There are a few negative effects of this "dream big, do big" approach: It hardly ever guarantees true ful...

374 Change is the only way to move forward. To progress. To truly be a better version of yourself every single day. Those who do not appreciate change will be left behind. Always. It is maybe ruthless at times, but there's no way around it. Yesterday, I binged Wind Of Change a podcast that explores how, theoretically, the CIA could've helped the Scorpions write the song Wind of Change, which played a massive role in bringing Germany together and later defeating communism. The story itself is v...

373 The world is in a state of "suspense" right now. We have either completely ceased or massively scaled down a lot of our endeavors as the human race. We probably won't come back to the way things were before. At least not in the next 12 months, for sure. As the title inclines, the suspense was sudden at first. Very few people were fully ready for it. It was a sudden, unexpected, tension-building suspense. And some of us still seem to be surprised by it. I feel like most of us are imaginin...

372 I adore mornings. There's a certain magic to waking up right before sunrise and enjoying the view with a cup of tea. Mornings are the most joyful, productive & creative periods of the day. I usually write this blog at 6am. I may not post it until the afternoon, because I like to give myself a bit of time to rethink what I've written a particular day. Sometimes I post right away. Morning walks are my favorite, too. I have the privilege of living around nature, and so there's literally ...

371 When an idea strikes, we usually feel energized and empowered to work on it. And that's beautiful. Ideas are beautiful, no matter how polished or unpolished they are. I adore that feeling of reaching the stroke of insight. After months and months of deliberating, finally seeing things clearly, exactly the way they should be. Creativity and inspiration hit like a tsunami wave. And it is, truly, like a stroke (not that I know from personal experience). You feel a rush at first, but soon a...

370 It's been a long time since the last tools update. I try not to obsess too much about finding the best tools for my work. I'm writing this post as much for myself as I'm doing it for you. Yes, my primary goal is sharing my workflow with others for the sake of inspiration, debate & shared wisdom. But writing things out in a single post is also a way for me to analyze the current setup and see it as a whole. One common theme you'll see among my tools is simplicity. During the past 12 ...

369 I've recently listened to this episode of the TED Radio Hour, my favorite podcast. It explores climate change and how we need to shift our mindsets before taking action. One of the guests in that episode is Christiana Figueres, the diplomat that lead 194 countries to sign the Paris Agreement in 2015. She talked about the idea of stubborn optimism; working against the odds to accomplish an immensely beneficial goal. I'm really impressed and empowered by her & her team's achievements. G...

368 This blog's transformation is complete. It started out as a simple "Daily Thoughts" ideas dumping ground. I wrote for the sake of writing. At this point, this blog is a "merger" from two. I decided to change the name from Daily Thoughts to In Search For Balance, which was another blog I wrote semi-regularly. The whole idea of that blog was my life's search for balance, harmony, stability, growth. I think I need a refresher of what this thing that I spend so much time looking for truly m...

367 I've been at home for more than 2 months now. Life in the physical aspect has completely changed for me. I have not seen my friends, have not gone for a coffee. For my personal safety and for the safety of others. So, I've been communicating mostly with words. I think that there are two main channels through which we communicate: words and actions. Words are more straightforward: they just communicate our thoughts. But they're also pretty ephemeral. 99% of the words we say don't have an i...

366 Building a strong, coherent team is never an easy task. I've written about this topic many times before, but I feel like every day I'm learning something new about it. There is a certain beauty to working together. While I deeply enjoy individual, focused, isolated work, at times team work just bests individual work. Oh, how much do I miss sitting around a table with others brainstorming on a project... But now, more than ever, I'm starting on this maybe controversial opinion: work with ...

365 Well, here we are. A full year of writing something new every single day. And it all started with a walk. It was a seemingly normal walk in the woods, but in the end it also was a walk into my mind. Into my greatest fears, hopes, dreams, and disappointments. The first post was poorly written, incredibly unstructured, and it missed any kind of a conclusion. I think I actually dictated it to my phone, and then just edited the text to make it look better. I have not done that ever since. But ...

364 We don't care about nature. Let's be honest. If we did, we wouldn't use so much plastic, wouldn't drive so much, consume so much, exploit everything around us so much. We just don't give a sh*t about it. We never truly did. I lived in the city for most of my life. Surrounded with big apartment buildings from one side, and wide, three lane roads from another, nature as a concept seemed very distant to me. All I had was the park, a sea of thinly cut grass of the same type. Even still, I had ...

363 Who killed truth? I feel like now more than ever truth is something we have to fight for. Misinformation, fake news, conspiracy theories, or however you want to call them, are spreading like crazy throughout our society. Things that would have been immediately discarded as falsehoods a hundred years ago are now considered by some as truth. 5G causes coronavirus? You bet. We're dealing with more information than we've ever dealt with before. Every single second we're sending the amount of ...

362 Ever since I started writing this blog almost a year ago, I was worried that I would eventually run out of ideas. That I wouldn't know what to write about one particularly uneventful and dull day. Yet here I am, 362 original posts later. And yes - in November or October for ~6 days I just posted quotes - there was just so much work that week that I scaled down to the bare minimum. But even just posting these quotes required searching for them, picking the right ones, and finally posting t...

361 I can feel them all through my body. When they come, everything is affected; the mind, the body & the soul. They arise slowly, step by step. It might take a lot of time for them to fill you up, and until then you won't even notice their existence. Only after a particular breaking point do they come out. Unfortunately, there's no single lock we can open to get rid of tensions. Just like the way they build up; slowly and painfully, they'll release after a lot of time spent of thorough he...

360 There's been great discussion in the "productivity" space about what motivation is and does it really exist. Some people believe that motivation is a myth. They say that success can be only attributed to one's self-discipline and habits, not some fleeting notion of "motivation". Others deeply believe in motivation as something that fuels work. Something that we need to have to work diligently and in a fulfilling way. I've struggled with finding motivation to do things many times in the p...

359 Yesterday, I've chatted with a founder, who's been running his company for around 4 years solo. He was the chief of everything. The entire product depended on solely on the work that he put in it every single day. If something failed, that was his fault. If something succeeded, he could attribute all the success to himself. He knew the ins and outs of the product incredibly well, as he was the only architect of it. Yet, after a few years of operating solo, he decided to hire extra people. ...

358 Remote work is a concept that's been pretty foreign to most of us, until now. Most of us have never known how it feels having total control over the things you're going to do in a day. There were always external requests, calls to answer, etc. Yet, suddenly, it has all reversed, and most of us do have a lot of control over our days. Deciding what to do from an incredibly large pool of tasks is not easy. Especially considering the fact that different areas of your life; work, family, frien...

357 I just finished preparing a talk on minimalism and living an intentional life. In it, I will be talking about why is it important to define your values before taking action. Thinking before doing. And that is the approach we should have 90% of time in life. Thinking, analyzing, theorizing before doing. Being intentional & living a conscious life. It's better to spend a bit more time before doing something and thinking through the effects it might have, than being kicked in the butt lat...

356 Yesterday evening, while being on a Netflix binge, which, I swear, doesn't happen often, I watched Contagion by Steven Soderbergh. It's a pandemic movie; it depicts pretty accurately how a virus can spread from one single place to the entire world in a matter of days. As a movie, it is not very good, it didn't "deliver" in my opinion. But, as a scientifically accurate tale of about the dangers of the modern world, I like it. In it, people that have spread the virus didn't know about it un...

355 I used to drink coffee every single day. It gave me that "boost" right around 10 to 11am, when most of my focused work got done. It was easy; just grind the beans, prepare the pour-over, get the water boiling, and then do the pouring. How simple. All of that for an "extended" day? Come on, who wouldn't do it? When I was doing it regularly, I wasn't able to notice the side effects. Because my body was so used to getting that extra shot of energy, it was impossible to know what would a day w...

354 The world is a magnificent place. Although there are many people & organizations that through their actions may make you believe otherwise, the world is a good place overall. I think that one of the most important things in this world is creativity. Without human creativity, there wouldn't be growth, there wouldn't be innovation. Think about it: everything we've achieved as a human species can be attributed to creativity. It's a key human trait and there's no denying it. Yet, I feel...

353 The pandemic is still going on in full capacity in my country. Although some restrictions have been lifted, it's still pretty unwise to go around other people; infections are rising. In trying times, courage is something we all need to exhibit to survive and thrive during a time like this. The courage to be responsible, considerate, caring, and most importantly of all, a nonconformist. A lot of people are managing their courage pretty well. I'm really proud when I see people wearing masks...

352 Habits are the most important thing in our daily lives. They make us. They determine our succesess, failures, relationships, and most other things that happen every day. I've written about habits plenty of times. They are probably my most common topic. Or at least in the top three. Yet, there is one rule I seem to have missed: Never miss more than one day This rule applies both to habit-building and habit-breaking. When building a new habit, the first dozens of times you'll have to ...

351 One very interesting thing I see people started doing during the pandemic is baking your own bread. For some reason, while being locked down at home, baking bread is suddenly a popular activity. Not that I think it's a bad hobby - we've been baking our own bread for months now in my household. This has made me think of an anology. See, in the Western kitchen, bread is consider basic. It's considered "commonfood" by everyone. It's cheap, it's pretty easy to make, lasts a few days, doesn't ...

350 To keep your mind fresh and agile at all times, you should do a bit of mental restructuring from time to time. Memories, emotions, dreams, and everything else that sits in our brain make us who we are. Without all of that "data" I wouldn't be me, and you wouldn't be you. All of that "mental luggage" compounds over time; the older you get, the more memories you have. Our brains are well equiped for this, that's why healthy people are able to remember things from their childhood on their ...

349 Negativity is always around us. It's a key part of life, and there is no avoiding it. People who try to be always positive usually turn out miserable and unfufilled. Yet, negativity doesn't deserve to be always present. It simply doesn't. A life full of negativity is also a miserable life. Negative emotions jump from people. When one of us gets upset for whatever reason, and then passess that negativity to another person, through rude, arrogant, hurtful behavior, the chain goes on. I can...

348 There is this great quote I came around recently: Reverse is often the most important gear And I'll be honest with ya; it resonated with me deeply. I like pushing forward. Just like driving a car: you go forward. Forward is the default direction. You can turn, of course, but the main "feature" of the car is going forward. There are six gears that make you go forward, and only one that makes you go backward. When we're speeding down a highway of succes, of joy, and of fulfillment, it'...

347 Let's be totally honest: It's hard right now. No matter who you are, what you do and how you live, things are different. At least some aspects of your life have been impacted. And it will continue to be harder for a while. The economic fallout of this situation might linger for years, and we'll all be impacted in some way. As with every single thing on Earth, there are a few positive things caused by the pandemic. There's one that I'm specifically interested in: The shredding of indiv...

346 I've been writing on this blog every single day for almost a year. A year. It still sounds too crazy to be true. I could never have imagined how far could this go. All it took was a simple idea. Today, I recorded a podcast episode with my friend. I was a guest on his podcast, that is. He was asking me about life, things I do, things I did etc. Just a casual chat. Yet, at some point, he asked me about this blog. The question was something along the lines of How have you managed to write a ...

345 It's really easy and really common to create certain boundaries within our minds. We create such limitations inside of our heads out of fear, conformism, laziness etc. Most of them are created sometime in our childhood, but not only. Later in life we just slowly bring them down one by one while discovering the world. Today, I was confronted with something past me wouldn't be able to handle. I'd say "this is out of my zone, I can't". I'd miss an amazing opportunity to help and establish...

344 It's always good to have ideas. To be curious. To want to learn new things. Without our drive for the new, the world wouldn't grow. Yet, in that drive what often gets lost it refinement. Refinement of things that already exist. Things that already have been created, used, and maybe even discarded. Everything deserves polishing. Nothing human is truly perfect, and so, everything may need that extra bit of refinement. We cannot underestimate that power of taking old, used ideas, and re-crea...

343 Decision-making is not an easy feat. It takes a lot of mental clarity and decisiveness to make good (or at least conscious) decisions. Not one teaches us that at school, nor are there many well-written guidebooks on this. We usually learn this through painful practice. I've written many, many times on this blog about the art of making a decision; it's something I'm deeply interested in, yet still learning the basics. Today's idea is this: Talk everything through, even with just yourself....

342 I've written about the art of failing many times on this blog. It's a process I consider crucial to human development, I deeply believe that there is nothing wrong in failure. Today, I'd like to share with you a few thoughts about what happens after failure. Here we go: When a person fails, in whatever aspect, they usually feel worse, or down. It's obvious; you've had a shot at something and you didn't do it well - negative feelings arise. After a failure, it's incredibly easy to get in...

341 Every once in a while we all need a change of pace. Sometimes, we might need to accelerate; do more, faster, more decisively. Other times, there might be a need to slow down, deccelerate. All of that is completely normal. Life is evolving, and so are we. We need to adapt and appreciate the changes all around us. Understanding and appreciating this is not particularly hard, for most. What is hard on the other hand is realizing when to change pace. When we're caught up in the tasks and cho...

340 Recently, I've been watching a show called The Good Place. It's a fun, intelligent, and well-writen show about a few people that got into The Good Place - a modern rendition of heaven. The key diea of the show is that all people are judged when they die by the things they did while on Earth. There is a "point system", where every single action one does is accounted as good or bad. Very good actions bring you a lot of points - very bad ones take away from your point total. There is a specifi...

339 Simplicity is all around us. Most things that we use and interact with; be it technology, infrastructure, and especially nature, are as simple as they can be. See, for something to really function well, it must be clear of any nonessentialness. When a system is designed with more stuff that needed, it won't perform the best. Resources will have to be spent on maintaining and developing the added areas to the system, and overall there will be less focus. Good systems, good creations, are...

338 How to be always creative? How do great writers, artists, thinkers create something every day? While I definitely do not consider myself a great writer nor a great thinker, I have been writing every single day for the past 338 days. Of course, most of what I've written wasn't particularly grounbreaking or beatiful. I'm not a professional writer (but who knows - maybe I'll become one), nor is English my native language. Creativity is not something we can just "get". It's a muscle that ne...

337 Whenever I think, write, speak and listen, I always mean to do so with clarity. For me, mental & physical clarity is necessary for mindful creation. Simply put; if you can't get to the bottom of a thought in your own mind, you won't be able to so on paper. So, it's key to keep your mind clear, however and whenever possible. For me, that means having less. Less tasks, less calls, less clutter. That's what I strive for. But how can one achieve and maintain clarity when they have to be...

336 It's really tough to stay awake after you've woken up. You're tired from all of this, and just often want to quit. Conciousness, responsibility, knowledge. Maybe it's better to never wake up? ...

335 Normally, we look for answers in life. We throw sometimes everything away just to go on a search for answers. It's almost omnipresent in our culture for one to go on a "search for meaning" through seeking answers. What if we looked for the questions instead? See, questions have one key advantage over answers; 99% of the time they can be formulated. Answers on the other hand? Probably 50% of the time. We just don't have the answers to everything, and we never will. But questions? Man, the...

334 During these past few years, I realized that the hardest thing about living well is sustainability. This particular term is most often used in buisness context. A sustainable buisness is one that does not fail, neither financially, nor culturally. A sustainable life on the other hand? What does that mean? A life that does not leave corpses on the side on the road. Of course, I mean that methaporically. An unsustainable life can, and quite often does leave actual corpses. But usually the...

333 Every once in a while we all make mistakes. It's just part of being human, no one is and no one will be perfectly correct every single time. I consider that beautiful. There's a beauty in being wrong. Of course, I'm not talking about being wrong while having all the facts - like denying science (hey, flat-earthers!). I'm talking about the process of learning; we just don't know everything needed to make the right decision all the time. Sometimes we might, but more often then not we don't....

332 Yesterday was a pretty intense day for me. Maybe not by the amount of work I had, but by emotional load. No, no one died, nothing tragic happened. Simply, a project I'm leading drained me emotionally. It's a project I've been wanting to do for a very long time, asked my supervisors for permission many times, but never got the resources required to complete it. It's a project that's pretty crucial to the core existence of my organization, how nice. Those two factors make me want to have th...

331 I tend to get into work head first sometimes. There's a beaty in getting to the nitty gritty quickly & efficiently. Not caring about the "etiquette BS", just diving in. Of course, some people may feel hurt. That's obvious. But in rapidly evolving situations, when there is a lot on the line, what do you do? Walk lightly and be careful not to hurt anybody's feelings or get to work quickly? Generally, I don't like to rush. I like to consider the next step carefully, always. It's usuall...

330 How do you stay in touch with other when you can't see anyone? Is it possible to satisfy your socializing needs without actually being with others? Probably not, for most people at least. We all miss those simple physical acts such as shaking hands, hugging, a good pat on the back. They are what makes human connections human. The ability to see someone in full; their entire body, their face. It's key to how we interact with each other. Damn, I remember reading somewhere that verbal communi...

329 Sometimes I feel like life is always circular. Whatever happens, it always happens in a cycle. After every success, there is failure. After a stream of high energy comes a dip. After day comes night. So on and so forth Nothing is a one-off event. Never. Everything is part of this grand circular movement called life. Yes, sometimes these cycles die out. But usually they still exist, just transformed into something completely different. My life seems to be circular too. The more I push extr...

328 How concered about things are you right now? How much do you spend daily on thinking about coronavirus? 10 minutes? 2 hours? Zero? I, personally have been in quarantine for little over a month. At first, I spent almost the entire day just wrapping my head around the fact that everything will change. Normally, I'm a big proponent of change. Change is always good, period. But this time, it's a change-wave I have no control over. It was just quite hard to deal with a change as big as that. ...

327 Exactly 30 days ago I stopped seeing people. My work can be done 98% remotely, and I'm not the one responsible for doing shopping in my family, so I hadn't had to leave the house ever since. Of course, it's tough. I miss seeing my friends, or even just random people on the street. My life has been put on hold, and the only thing I can to do stop it is just staying at home. How lovely. I have to say I'm incredibly grateful for the fact that I live in a pretty spacious home with a loving f...

325 Today I've listened to an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast called Close Enough: Living Through Others. It's a story about how we often like to experience a different reality through the documentation of somebody else's life via digital media. We all have at least that one online creator who's live was so appealing to us that we started to imagine being them. Maybe that is just pure escapism? Running away from the imperfections of our everyday lives? Maybe it's something more? Trying to...

324 Okay, I admit. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I just can't pass on any piece of work I don't consider perfectly finished. Of course, that definition varies, and sometimes that means just completing the job, but other it means re-working everything at the last minute. It's hard for me to notice my perfectionism when I'm deep into work. It's unnoticeable. Only when I give myself the time and space to look from above and get an overarching view of my current situation, can I fully notice the...

323 I love making tough decisions. Yes, of course, they are hard. But the planning, the consideration, and getting to see the outcome all make it ultimately worh it. It's like a rollercoaster ride. But better. ...

323 Innovation is tough. Very often, it is even relentless. It requires rapid and drastic change. But, what if all innovation was for the better? For a better, healthier & safer world? Even when the inital cost of adaptation will be tough? In my humble opinion, all innovation is good. Even when it fails after some time. Because only through experimentation can we be better. Whatever that means for us. ...

322 Are you afraid of being judged by others? If so, why? What scares you about it? Maybe you want to feel accepted everywhere and by everyone. Maybe you feel the need to always fit into the widely accepted social norms. Judgments are opinions, not facts. When someone tells you that you're fat, they're just communicating their opinion, not a scientifically proven fact. Should they be doing that? Probably not. But still, when you start viewing judgments as opinions instead of facts, they beco...

321I came across this recently:And it reminded me of a technique I use from time to time to distance myself from everything going on.Basically, you do a thought expermient where you are the lead character of a movie. Everything around you is scripted. Ask yourself; what do you do? How do you behave? What do you think?Sometimes, it's necessary to imagine that we're in a different world, where current events and struggles don't apply. Some, of course, go too deep into a made-up world and never tru...

320 There aren't many things in the world as peaceful and harmonious as nature. Trees, lakes, flowers, and everything else is incredibly beautiful and calming. Study after study confirms the immensely positive psychological effect of nature. Everyone benefits from exposure to nature, no exceptions. Even those of us with allergies (Hi!). Nature gives one the feeling of peace, wholeness, stillness, and harmony. Yet we, as the entire human race, have not embraced nature. We used it, exploited i...

319 This morning I was re-watching the amazing documentary Inside Bill's Brain about Bill Gates. It's a three-part story about Gates's life, his quite interesting way of thinking and his philatropic efforts. I really like the series. Mostly because I like Gates himself, even considering all the "evilness" of Microsoft in the 90s and 00s. It's an interesting story about a very interesting man. So, somewhere in the series, the director and interviewer asks Gates about all the children sufferin...

318 Continuing on the topic of slowing down, resting, and relfection, let's talk about why the hell can't we take some rest? I blame technology for that inability to slow down. Constant notifications, pop-ups, alerts, and all the rest. Our computers, which have become a key part of our work, are terribly distracting and demanding tools. Slack, MS Teams, and all instant messaging requires one's attention 90% of the time. You need to be online to know what's going on. It's really hard to catch ...

317 Yes, everything is shutting down. Schools, universities, offices, some shops, public transit & more. It's the right thing to do in a time like this, our only solution to a big problem. For a lot of people that is a bad thing to happen. It sets off panic. But for me, shutting down is exactly what we need. Of course, I'm not happy that there's a pandemic out there and that people are dying. Oh, and some are losing their jobs. That all sucks. For the past 20 years the world was on gear...

316 In many different computer programs there is a feature called Find & Replace. It does exactly what the name implies: it'll find a bit of text you're looking for, and then replace it with something else. It'll do it no matter how many times the text appears. It's perfect for replacing someone's name in an article you're writing or changing a number that appears frequently in your spreadsheet. What a genius feature, right? Simple but incredibly effective. I've been wondering these past ...

315 Tough times have prevailed. A novel virus is relentlessly and blazingly fast spreading among humans. It's a time of adaptation. Only by dropping our globalist, going-out lifestyle can the pandemic end. Because we all want to go back to normal as fast as possible, right? What if this new lifestyle would have to be implemented for 10 years, not 2 months? For me, it's a time of reinvention. I'm spending my days in the same environment, without much change. There's time for reading, writin...

314 Dzisiaj krótko, ponieważ się lenię. No właśnie. Ogłoszenie publiczne dla wszystkich ludzi, którzy mają tendecję do robienia dużo w życiu (jakkolwiek to rozumiem): Każdemu z nas należy się trochę lenistwa. Nie tylko przerwy, ale prawdziwego lenistwa. Idźcie się lenić! ...

313 Raz na jakiś czas w naszym życiu pojawia się okazja na zrobienie twardego resetu. Pewnej zmiany, oczyszczenia, przełamania. Czasami taką okazję łatwo zauważyć, czasami trudno. Jednak zawsze, nie ważne jak trudna lub łatwa, będzie to decyzja z której będziemy się cieszyć. Ponieważ zrzucimy z siebie pewien ciężar, przejedzenie obecnym światem. Nawet, jeśli konsekwencje danej decyzji będą negatywne. Dlatego warto być wyczulonym na takie momenty. Momenty, w których możemy zrobić hard re...

312 Obecna sytuacja jest wyjątkowa. Wyjątkowa na wiele sposobów, to jasne. Nie wiemy, co się stanie za tydzień, dwa, miesiąc. Nikt, nawet najmądrzejsi naukowcy nie są przekonani co do tego, jak będą wyglądały najbliższe miesiące. Życie zastygło. Jedynym efektywnym sposobem zwalczania wirusa w tej chwili jest ograniczenie kontaktów fizycznych z innymi do zera. Straciliśmy ten dynamizm, pęd codziennego życia. Z jednej strony to dobrze. Każdy z nas może zwolnić, mieć czas na skupienie się na so...

311 Tylko próbując się dowiem. Dowiem się czy coś jest dobre. Dowiem się dlaczego coś jest dobre. Dowiem się jak to ulepszyć. Dowiem się kiedy przestać. Nie próbując nic się nie dowiem. Nic nie zrobię. Tak jakbym w ogóle nie istniał. ...

310 Czasami mam wrażenie, że próbuję wygrać na wszystkich frontach. Za każdym razem przegrywam, ponieważ: Walczę. W ogóle nie powinienem walczyć. Na wszystkich frontach, czyli moja uwaga jest rozproszona. Ale nawet gdyby walka była ok, to dalej nie do końca wiem, gdzie dany front się kończy, a gdzie się zaczyna Nie zawsze wiem, czym ma być wygrana Ani wygrywać, ani walczyć. Tym bardziej na wielu frontach. Po prostu być. ...

309 Wiedzy na świecie jest bardzo dużo. Z każdym nowym pokoleniem mamy jej kilka razy więcej niż było. Niemożliwym jest bycie na bierząco ze wszystkim, co jest tworzone. Po prostu trzeba zaakceptować fakt, że tyklo malutki odsetek wiedzy do nas dotrze. Z drugiej strony jest podejście ignoranckie, "skoro tak tego dużo jest, że nigdy tego nie ogarnę, to po co w ogóle ogarniać?". Jak we wszystkim, jest jakiś złoty środek. Bycie zainteresowanym, zaciekawionym różnymi wartościowymi rzeczmi. Czyt...

308 Bywa tak, że coś powoduje, że wpadamy w taki paraliż. Stan niepewności, nieumiejętności odpowiedzi, może nawet strachu. Czasami powód jest jeden; jasny i konkretny. Czasami tych powodów jest wiele, trudno rozróżnić jeden od drugiego. Jedynym skutecznym sposobem na wyjście z paraliżu jest oddech. Oddech w sensie odpuszczenia, stworzenia dla siebie przestrzeni. Taki mentalny paraliż powstaje zazwyczaj poprzez nadmiar. Nadmiar emocji, kontaktów, wydarzeń. Dlatego, aby odszedł, konieczne jest ...

307 Jesteśmy uznawani często za istoty stadne, grupowe. Potrzebujemy tego poczucia przynależności do grupy, to jest jasne. Co zrobimy, jeśli nie będziemy mogli żyć w stadach? Jak się będziemy zachowywać w takiej wyjątkowej sytuacji? Pojedyncza sarna jest bardzo łatwym celem dla drapieżnika. Sarny sa zwierzetąmi stadnymi, i dlatego "zaprojektowane" są do takiego życia. Część stada stoi na czatach, część szuka pokarmu, cześć zjada ten już znaleziony. Wszystko odbywa się w takiej pięknej harmo...

306 Od dłuższego czasu zastanawiam się nad tym, jak dobrze współpracować. Lubię pracować samemu, ale gdy jestem częścią jakiejś grupy, organizacji, zawsze czuję się lepiej. Dobrze działająca organizacja jest jak dobra zupa. Wiecie, taka zupa, którą naprawdę warto zjeść. Taka, która wywołuje niesamowite odczucia w ustach, a nie jest tylko resztkami z obiadu wrzuconymi do wody. Zupa jest płynna, tak samo jak organizacja. Niektórzy porównują organizacje do maszyn, co jest moim zdaniem katastrof...

305 Czasami trzeba podjąć jakąś odpowiedzialną decyzję. Wczoraj ktoś z mojego środowiska podjął odpowiedzialną decyzję. Ja, choć mniejszą, też dzisiaj musiałem takową decyzję podjąć. Odpowiedzialne decyzje są zazwyczaj trudne, ale zarazem uwalniające. Może nawet spełniające? Lubię takie decyzje, dodają akcji i dynamizmu w życiu. ...

304 Dzisiaj idę inną drogą. Może lepszą, może gorszą - kto wie. Jutro wrócę na starą drogę. Może na gorsze, może na lepsze - kto wie. Warto czasami zmienić sobie kierunek, albo trasę. Tak dla samego faktu sprawdzenia czegoś nowego i odkrycia siebie w lepszej wersji. ...

303 Piszę sobie tekst. O, taki sobie tekst. Temat sam wybrałem, formę i treść również. Mam, co prawda, jeden główny wymóg co do stylu tego tekstu; musi on zawierać przynajmniej jeden punkt zwrotny. Nagle, przestałem go pisać. ...

302 Stoję w ogrodzie. Widzę róże. Białe róże. Bo przecież, inne róże są zbędne? Biała róża jest najprostsza. Biały, jeśli go uznamy z kolor, jest prosty. Nie jest farbą, tylko płótnem. Czy to dyskwalifikuje białe róże? Przecież one istnieją. Dalej są różami. Powoli zaczynam iść do przodu, ciągle mijam kolejne białe róże. Nagle dostrzegam jedną, która jest czerwona. Jest wyjątkowa, jej krwista czerwień bardzo się wyróżnia na tle subtelnej bieli pozostałych róż. Jestem zauroczony tą różą. Przeci...

301 Wreszcie mam szansę żyć w stu procentach na własnych zasadach. Mogę tworzyć swoją rzeczywistość od stóp do głów tak, jak uznaję za słusznę. Mogę się sugerować, ale nie muszę podążać za czymś, co wyznaczył mi ktoś inny. Czy to nie jest ideał? Mieć kontrolę, wolność? Ideał chyba jednak nie. Z każdym gramem wolności dochodzi kolejny dekagram odpowiedzialności. Napewno jestem w stanie stwierdzić, że jest to doświadczenie bardzo uczące i otwierające oczy. Pozwala zobaczyć swoje indywidualne br...

300 300 dni temu zacząłem pisać. Odblokowałem się. Moje myśli nie były już tylko moje. Były na wolności, w internecie, dostępne dla wszystkich. Na początku było to bardzo uwalniające. Czułem, jakby ze mnie wychodziło wszystko. To uczucie lekkości, beztroskiego tworzenia i konstruowania jakiegoś dzieła. Piękne i wolne dni lata pozwalały na pisanie bez zobowiązań, kiedy i gdzie tylko chciałem. Potem przyszedł czas trudności. Wróciłem do codziennego życia - tego, które pełne jest pędu, szybkości...

299 Życie jest płynne. Niekonkretne, można czasami powiedzieć. Wszystko tak sobie płynie dookoła nas, rzadko mamy nad czymkolwiek stu procentową kontrolę. Zazwyczaj granice między wszystkim są dość niejasne - można powiedzieć, że “ustalamy je wraz z przekraczaniem ich”. Jednak z drugiej strony potrzebna jest jakaś struktura. Jakiś plan. Coś, co może nam wyznaczać drogę w trudnych momentach. Czy możliwym jest dzielić życie na konkretne aspekty, a zarazem zachować płynność? ...

298 Pora wejść w drugi świat. Ten wirtualny. Jest to świat inny. Dalej można utrzymywać relacje międzyludzkie, ale są one pozbawione czegoś. Porównuję to często do wymiarów; relacje w internecie to relacje 2D, a relacje w rzeczywistości to relacje 3D. Jest coś, ten aspekt widzenia kogoś w całości; twarzy, mowy ciała, oczu, co pozwala nam na pełną komunikację z drugą osobą. Nigdy tego nie będziemy w stanie odtworzyć przez internet. Nawet w formie hologramów. Internet z zasady nie jest miłym mi...

297 Czasami trzeba się po prostu zaadaptować. Zmienić swój wewnętrzny świat, aby dopasować się do tego zewnętrznego. Zawsze mogą przyjść jakieś wyjątkowe okoliczności, których nie będziemy w stanie obejść. Trzeba wziąć się w garść i po prostu robić to, co ma sens w danej chwili. Podejmować decyzje na spokojnie, przemyślając każdy krok. Ta sytuacja teraz jest wyjątkowa.Trzeba zrezygnować ze swoich planów, zrezygnować z pewnych wygód. Trzeba się zaadaptować. ...

296 Muszę się z Wami podzielić pewną refleksją dotyczącą tego bloga. Mam takie poczucie, że przez ostatnie kilka miesięcy trochę nie przykładałem odpowiedniej uwagi pisaniu postów tutaj. Jeśli ktoś by popatrzył na średnią długość postów, można łatwo zaobserwować, że jest ona znacznie krótsza niż wcześniej. Tematy postów (w mojej opinii) są coraz mniej oryginalne, a wręcz często sprawiają wrażenie napisanych od niechcenia. Tak, dużo się u mnie dzieje. Wieloma rzeczami naraz się zajmuję. Ale d...

295 Zawsze może zdarzyć się coś strasznego, trudnego, nagłego, niezrozumiałego. A co, jeśli można temu zapobiec? Albo zminimalizować ryzyko przynajmniej? A z drugiej strony jak nie martwić się cały czas absoulutnie wszystkim? Tylko żyć w swobodzie? Dopóki to, co robię na wszelki wypadek nie powoduje, że przestaję czerpać radość, to zawsze lepiej być ubezpieczonym. ...

293 Odważam się być. Być sobą. Być tutaj. ...

292 Jest nijako, niekonkretnie. Trudno ujrzeć barwy świata. Wszystko się wydaje w pewien sposób wypaczone, wyblakłe. Większości z nas się nie chce. Czujemy, jakoby ta atmosfera zwalniała nas z bycia obecnymi. Ja też czasami uciekam przed tym. To znaczy, używam otoczenia jako wymówki. To jest po prostu wygodne. Wtedy, gdy udaje mi się wziąć w garść i włączyć ten silniczek dobra, niezależnie od otoczenia, jest świetnie. Ale chyba ten silniczek jest na baterie słoneczne. ...

291 Dostosuj się, czy tego chcesz, czy nie. Chyba, że wolisz zostać z tyłu. ...

290 Czasami trzeba wprowadzić korektę, poprawkę do naszego kursu. Gdzieś tam sobie płynęliśmy przez pewien czas, ale teraz trzeba ten kurs poprawić. Niekoniecznie zmienić, tylko poprawić. Lubimy nagłą zmianę. Niektórzy z nas nawet jej pożądają. Pozostawiamy tą zmianę powolną, elementarną z boku. To jest ogromne przeoczenie. ...

289 Siedzi sobie w kącie, czasami niezauważany. Ale jednak jest. Brudny, obleśny. Ile takich brudów siedzi u ciebie w kącie? Może pora je wyczyścić? ...

289 Lubię pomagać. Zawsze i wszędzie. Zazwyczaj, gdy słyszę, że jest okazja do pomocy, zgłaszam się, a przynajmniej mocno się nad tym zastanawiam. Jednak, nie ważne jak bardzo chciałbym czasami pomóc, muszę być w pozycji do pomagania. To znaczy, muszę sam na siebie na tyle ogarnąć, pomóc sobie najpierw na tyle samemu, żeby być gotowym pomagać innym. Trzeba o tym pamiętać. Istnieje taka teoria podziału ludzi między Dawców, Biorców i Dopasowanych. Czyli tych, którzy się naturalnie składają ...

288 Każdy wie, jak to się robi. Jesteś pod taką presją, czujesz się tak niedobrze z sytuacją, w której jesteś, że bierzesz ten ostatni wdech i myślisz "Tylko tu i teraz ma znaczenie, przyszłość i przeszłość nie mają". Zazwyczaj wchodzimy w taki stan pod presją, zestresowani. Jest to desperacki stan, maksymalne skupienie nad tym, co się dzieje. A co, gdybyśmy mogli włączać ten tryb dowolnie? Kiedykolwiek potrzebowalibyśmy przestać żyć w przeszłości czy przyszłości, robilibyśmy pstryk i nagle...

287 No właśnie; dobrze tak czy źle? Dla mnie chyba dobrze. ...

286 Czasami chciałbym gdzieś uciec. Im dalej, tym lepiej. Najlepiej gdzieś daleko, do innego świata. Odkąd pamiętam, zawsze łatwo mi było się przenieść w wyobraźni gdzieś indziej, po prostu zamykałem oczy i byłem wszędzie, gdzie tylko chciałem. Zawsze to lubiłem, pozwalało mi zdobyć inną perspektywę na rzeczy dziejące się dookoła mnie na codzień. Dalej to lubię. Jednak taka umiejętność ma też swoje minusy. Można jej w łatwy sposób nadużywać (jak chyba wszystkiego w tym naszym niesamowitym św...

285 Jeśli nie będziesz trzymał rąk na kierownicy, stracisz panowanie. Jeśli będziesz uporczywie ściskał ręce na kierownicy i droga zakręci, zjedziesz z niej i stracisz panowanie. ...

284 Tak nagle, gwałtownie. Po prostu blokuje koła pojazdu, nie da się jechać dalej. Fajnie coś takiego mieć. ...

283 Trzy na raz? Może lepiej pojedynczo? Ale ta satysfakcja, oh, ona jest wręcz uzależniająca. Daje moc, ale można się od niej uzależnić. ...

282 Bywają takie momenty w naszej drodze, że czujemy się niewygodnie. Niepewni swoich wartości, swojego środowiska i przede wszystkim swoich decyzji. U niektórych, choć skłaniam się powoli do tego, że jednak u wszystkich, taka niewygoda pojawia się w cyklach. Nie zawsze regularnych, ale opartych na podobnych charakterystykach. - Jak temu zapobiec? Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Człowieka definiują przyjaciele, nie wrogowie Niby oczywiste, ale jednak często, nawet podświadomie kreujemy sobie w...

281 Innym nie da się iść. ...

280 Nagle ciemno, nagle głucho. Wszystko, co buduje nasz obecny świat znika. Może dobrze, że zniknęło? ...

279 Czytałem sobie ostatnio artykuł mówiący o tym, dlaczego ponad 50% najsatrzych firm świata znajduje się w Japoni. Zastanawiam się; jak zbudować coś większego niż jeden? Na zachodzie, w dzisiejszych czasach mamy tendencję do budowania firm opierających się na kulcie osobowości, idealnym przykładem tego jest na przykład WeWork, firma budowana przez ostatnie 10 lat głównie wokół osoby Adama Neumanna, czyli jej założyciela i CEO. Adam był nawet określany jako osoba mająca status "Jezusa" w fi...

278 Kiedy moje jest już twoje? Kiedy twoje jest już moje? A może jest nasze? ...

277 Ciepło jest zawsze. Jest wszędzie. Nie zawsze je widać, a dokładniej, nie chcemy go widzieć. Zimno jest pociągające. Mroźne, ale zarazem fascynujące i intrygujące. A ciepło zawsze dobre. ...

276 Było ciepło, jest zimno. Jest zimno, będzie ciepło? -- Ale ciepło już jest. ...

275 Już jesteś zmęczony. Nie masz siły na robienie czegokolwiek więcej. Chcesz przerwy, odpoczynku. Nie chcesz iść dalej. Ale jest ktoś, kto ciebie potrzebuje. Nie mówi o tym. Ale ty to czujesz. Idziesz, robisz jeszcze jedną rzecz. ...

274 Ktoś jakoś ostatnio spytał się mnie, jak bym opisał życie jednym zdaniem. Tak mi się jakoś nasunęło na język; Prosta droga z wieloma zakrętami ...

273 Wyścig szczurów, to określenie, które pojawia się coraz częściej w naszym społeczeństwie. Mówimy o tym, jak ludzie pracujący w wielkich korporacjach nie pracują dla dobra ogółu (jakkolwiek to chcemy interpetować), tylko dla osiągania większych sukcesów indywidualnych. Jakiś naukowiec przeprowadził eksperyment; zebrał dwie grupy kur: tych najbardziej "produktywnych" i tych zwykłych, niezbyt wybitnych. - Oczywiście produktywność kur liczymy w ilości złożonych jajek. Chcąc sprawdzić, czy p...

272 Nieważne jak bardzo czasami próbuję stworzyć coś "zaawansowanego", pełnego różnych funkcji i możliwości, dającego wiele perspektyw, zawsze długodystansowo to coś nie działa. To jest prosta prawda życiowa - w sensie, nietrudno się o niej dowiedzieć i ją konceptualnie zrozumieć. Jakość ponad ilość Jednak dalej jakoś jest mi trudno zawsze się na niej opierać. Po prostu o niej zapominam, lub, nie chcę jej zrozumieć. P.S. po wielu pytaniach "dlaczego nie będę dostawać maili z tymi postam...

271 Wiele rzeczy, zwłaszcza tych trudnych, wydaje się niemożliwe do zrozumienia. Żeby zrozumieć, wystarczy zmienić miejsce. Usiąść z innej strony i poobserwować świat z boku. ...

270 Jak wiedzieć, co się chce? Co jest dla nas ważne? Na co zwracamy uwagę? Czy jedyną drogą do tego jest absolutne zagłębienie w eksperymentowanie i zadawanie pytań? Czy da się to po prostu wiedzieć? Nie musieć tego szukać? Albo przynajmniej zrozumieć? ...

269 Gdzieś w tym buszu, który zwiemy życiem, znajduje się przerzedzenie - miejsce, w którym niekończące się trudy codzienności odchodzą, czarne myśli się rozjaśniają i szczery uśmiech pojawia się na twarzy. Każdy może być w takim miejscu. To nie jest tak, że ono jest dostępne tylko dla wybranych. Żeby znaleźć to przerzedzenie, trzeba popatrzeć z boku na siebie i swoje otoczenie. Nie jest to proste i zazwyczaj trudno to zrobić samemu, bez pomocy innych. Jednak gdy już nam się je raz odkryć, ...

268 Jak skakać, aby doskoczyć, nie przeskoczyć ani zaskoczyć? Jak szybko podjąć sprawną decyzję? Jak nie bać się konsekwencji tej decyzji? Czy w ogóle musimy skakać? Może jakoś obejść? Ale czy obchodzenie to nie jest uciekanie? ...

267 Każdy ma jakieś granice, zasady, rzeczy, których nie zrobi... Z jednej strony takie granice są bardzo ważne - dzięki nim wiemy, kiedy powiedzieć nie i wiemy co jest dla nas naprawdę ważne. A z drugiej strony, gdy trzymamy się tych swoich granic zbyt mocno, trzymamy się siebie i zamykamy na innych. Gdzie jest ta linia między otwartością a odpowiedzialnością? Jak ją znaleźć? ...

266 Taki, który burzy wszystko, przerwała sterty starych śmieci. Taki huragan to moc, której nie da się powstrzymać. Taki huragan to moc, której nie można odmówić. ...

265 Czasami są takie okresy w życiu, że wszystko zmienia się na inne - podejmujesz inne decyzje, działasz w inny sposób. Jednka, gdy twoje fundamenty, które zbudowałeś wcześniej, są mocne i dobrze zbudowane, wszystko staje się prostsze - nawet po takiej przerwie. Nawyki, robienie dobrych rzeczy krok po kroku codziennie jest kluczem, koniec kropka. ...

264 Są takie miejsca, które chciałyby pozostać takie, jakie są. Ba, są nawet tacy ludzie! Jednak przyszłość (czy może teraźniejszość?) wkrada się do tych miejsc powolutku. Remontuje chodniki, buduje biurowce ze szkła i metalu, otwiera nowe kawiarnie na każdym rogu i przekształca stare, zapomniane fabryki na galerie handlowe. Czy to jest postęp? Czy to jest przyszłość, którą chcemy? Z drugiej strony gdzieś na bok spycha tablice upamiętniające zmarłych w Getcie, powoduje, że największą atrak...

263 Niby to jest coś niezmiennego - w końcu jest co ogromna mieszanina gazów nad naszymi głowami, na którą nie mamy większego wpływu. Z drugiej strony jednym zdaniem możemy zmienić nagle całą atmosferę. To jak jest w końcu? Można się zmieniać czy nie? ...

262 Zaraz wysiadam, to już następny przystanek. Jeszcze ten jeden zakręt... ...

261 Pewnego dnia, gdy wstanę rano zobaczę drzewa uginające się pod wiatrem zmiany. Niektóre się złamią, inne przetrwają. Będzie inaczej ...

260 Jak się nie denerwować w każdej, błahej sytuacji? Jak nie pozwalać środowisku przejąć nad nami kontroli? Jak zawsze działać w zgodzie ze sobą i nie żałować swoich decyzji? Jest tylko jedna odpowiedź. Traktować wartości bardziej niż emocje. ...

259 Myślę sobię, że dobrym "mindsetem" w życiu jest chęć zostania artystą we wszystkim, co się robi. Nie chodzi koniecznie o to, żeby zacząć malować, rysować czy rzeźbić, tylko starać się syntezować wiedzę i umiejętności. W obecnym systemie edukacji uczymy się analizować wszystko. Jesteśmy w stanie przypomnieć sobie jakiś szczegółowy, specyficzny fragment wiedzy, a niekoniecznie stworzyć coś samemu. Dlatego, nie ważne, czy jesteś managerem, matematykiem czy kierowcą Ubera - pomyśl o tym, jak ...

258 Zdażają się takie okresy w życiu, gdy niebo jest cały czas zachmurzone. Słabiej widzimy rzeczy, bo w końcu jest ciemniej i tak bardziej szarawo. Jednak zawsze, ale to zawsze, w pewnym momencie chmury się rozejdą i wyjdzie słońce. Nie ważne jak trudna nasza rozterka, zawsze tak będzie. Warto pamiętać o jednej rzeczy: żeby tego nie przegapić. Bo gdy jesteśmy tak skupieni na nas tutaj na dole, zakręceni w swoich sprawach, to możemy w ogóle zapomnieć o świecie poza nami. I wtedy możemy nie za...

257 Bardzo prosto jest ugrzęznąć w jakiś szczegółach, drobnych i nie mających wpływu na całość. Gdy nasze nastawienie od razu opiera się na "przejściu do konkretu", zaczniemy robić rzeczy lepiej i dokładniej. ...

256 Ludzie ambitni z natury często mają tak, że nie potrafią powiedzieć nie. Zwłaszcza okazjom ciekawym i rozwijającym. Ale ile takich okazji może być? Ile jesteśmy w stanie przyjąć, zanim nie będziemy już mieli w ogóle czasu dla siebie? ...

255 Są naprawdę błahe. Sam często przyłapuję siebie na sporym przejmowaniu się małymi rzeczami, na przykład tym, czy będę na czas na autobus. Od jakiegoś roku pracuję powoli nad tym, żeby jednak się takimi "trudami codzienności" po prostu nie przejmować. Przecież zazwyczaj na te rzeczy nie mamy wpływu, a na pewno na nie nie mamy wpływu przejmując się. Czasami lepiej zająć się jakimś "pobocznym" problemem, czymś co nie ma zastosowania w naszej obecnej sytuacji. Takie trochę chwilowe odwrócenie ...

254 Jak wrócić do rytmu? To jest pytanie, z którym zmagam się od kilku dni. Po dość "nietypowym" okresie około miesiąca wracam powoli do regularnego rytmu. Do tej codzienności, którą jedni uwielbiają, inni nienawidzą. Pierwszym krokiem jest zauważenie, czyli zobaczenie naszych podświadomych, automatycznych akcji - nawyków. Chodzi o to, żeby zobaczyć wszystkie rzeczy, które robimy w ciągu dnia, zarówno te dobre jak i te złe. Możliwym jest, że po tymczasowej zmianie środowiska, niektóre nawyki,...

253 Jest gorzej. Rytm jest tym czymś, na czym możesz polegać codziennie. Ta jedna rzecz, która zawsze idzie tak samo. Nie ważne jak różnie się czujesz, jak różne są twoje plany. Trudno taki rytm budować, zwłaszcza jeśli twoje jest wypełnione podróżami, spontanicznością i planowaniem na bierząco. Jednak jest kilka prostych rzeczy, które można zacząć robić, kilka technik, które pomagają w budowaniu własnego, dobrego rytmu. Mówiłem już o nich tutaj przy wielu okazjach, jednak w nadchodzących dn...

252 Jak stworzyć narzędzia, które pomagają nam myśleć? Niekoniecznie tworzyć, tylko po prostu myśleć. Przechowywać pomysły, myśli. Łączyć je ze sobą, konfrontować się z nimi? ...

251 Znam takich, co potrafią tak się przejmować wszystkim, że czasami nawet przejmują się tym, że tak się wszystkim przejmują. Negatywne myśli lubią się piętrzyć, nakładać na siebie. Często bywają też w pewnym sensie bardzo kuszące. Starajmy się unikać środowisk czy sytuacji, gdzie takie negatywne cykle przejmowania się są wszechobecne. To poprostu niszczy ludzkie życie. ...

250 Dla jednych oznacza powrót do nudy, szarości, braku satysfakcji z życia. Dla drugich czas na zastosowanie wszystkich pomysłów powstałych gdy byliśmy gdzieś indziej. Którą stronę wybierasz? ...

249 Góra nie mogłaby być górą, gdyby nie byłoby doliny. Dolina nie mogłaby być doliną, gdyby nie było góry. ...

248 Jest tutaj. Tylko teraz. Jutro będzie inna. Siedząc w kącie pokoju nie ujżysz jej piękna. Nie poczujesz miłości, nie będziesz się czuł spełniony. Świat jest duży, często przerażający. Ale jeśli będziemy się go bać, to będzie on tylko gorszy. ...

247 Ostatni krok, czasami najtrudniejszy, czasami najprostszy. Jednak zawsze daje ogromną satysfakcję. Łączysz elementy swojej pracy. Sałata, kukurydza, papryka, fasola, mięso i ser połączone z salsą dopiero w momencie zawinięcia w placek stają się skończonym burrito. Wszystkie elementy, nagie pojedynczo są wreszcie całością, gotowym dziełem. Często zaczynamy coś robić, ale z różnych powodów, często prostego zdezorientowania czy lenistwa, odkładamy je na bok. Pozwalamy im zepsuć się, stracić...

246 Ale okno jest brudne. ...

245 Jest po prostu zrobić to, o czym myślimy. Inaczej nigdy się nie dowiemy o tym, czy to był dobry pomysł. ...

244 Bo co innego możesz zrobić po upadku? ...

243 Czasami bardzo trudno jest zaakceptować to, jak wszystko się dookoła nas układa. Odrzucamy obecny porządek świata i próbujemy go zmienić. Czasami tak trzeba. Zdażają się takie momenty, kiedy jedyne, co można zrobić, to wziąc i głęboki oddech i patrzeć jak się dzieje. ...

242 Nie lubię objazdów. Zwłaszcza takich nieplanowanych. Jednak czasami nie ma innego sposóbu żeby dostać się do celu. ...

241 Przecież nie da się cały czas biec. Trzeba sobie odpocząć, nawet jeśli wydaje nam się, że "tracimy czas" w ten sposób. Każdy potrzebuje chwili na oddech. Nie katuj się za to, że oglądnąłeś jeden odcinek serialu po wstaniu z łóżka. Zamiast tego zastanów się nad swoim planem na dzień. ...

240 Piszę ten post rano. O 6:23 dokładnie. Przez kilka miesięcy udawało mi się utrzymywać ten nawyk pisania rano. Zaraz po obudzeniu, zjedzeniu śniadania i porannej toalecie. To był dobry nawyk. Wychodząc z domu miałem poczucie, że "coś już zrobiłem". Mogłem wyrzucić z siebie jakiś pomysł o którym śniłem, na przykład. Jednak przez ostatnie kilka tygodni, mniej więcej od połowy grudnia odkładałem pisanie tego bloga na ostatnią chwilę, zaraz przed snem, ok. 23. To powodowało, że czułem się źl...

239 Gdy oczy nic nie widzą, czym będziesz patrzeć? Sercem? Głową? Co pokieruje ciebie w najtrudniejszych momentach? ...

238 Nie widzę szacunku w przestrzeni publicznej. A jaki on jest ważny! Łatwiej pluć, szydzić z innych? Przecież to boli. Nawet plującego. ...

237 Często gdy podejmujemy jakąś trudną decyzję mamy do wyboru dwie, równie złe opcje. A co, gdyby się wycofać? Powiedzieć: nie wybieram zła. Wziąć odpowiedzialność za podjęcie innej drogi ale zarazem czuć się lepiej, czyściej... ...

236 Słońce które świeci niewidzialnym światłem czy może cień przysłaniający każde światło ...

235 Fascynuje mnie to, że łatwiej wejść w cykl negatywnych myśli, niż tych pozytywnych. Myśląc negatywnie o jednej rzeczy; np. pogodzie możemy odkręcić kurek, który spowoduje, że będziemy nakładać ten negatywny pryzmat na pozostałe rzeczy. Nagle pozytywne wydarzenia, na przykład spacer z rodziną, zaczną kojarzyć nam się negatywnie. I to wszystko zawsze zaczyna się od zazwyczaj prostej, niezbyt ważnej myśli. Takiego poirytowania, zdenerowowania, niezrozumienia. ...

234 Nawet pisać tego bloga. ...

233 Leżą obok mnie brudne naczynia; nikt ich nie wymyje? Zjeść po raz kolejny z nich również nikt nie planuje. Brudne są, przecież. -- Ile jest takich rzeczy w naszym życiu, z których moglibyśmy korzystać wielorazowo, jednak z powodu naszego własnego lenistwa (?) postanawiamy po prostu wziąć coś innego? ...

232 Tylko nie wszyscy chcą je zobaczyć. Niektórzy cały czas odwracają głowę... ...

231 Czasami warto zejść z głównej drogi, przejść się jakąś ścieżką, prowadzącą niewiadomo gdzie. ...

230 Każdy, ale to absolutnie każdy potrzebuje czasu i przestrzeni tylko dla siebie. Walcz o to dla siebie, ale respektuj czas i przestrzeń innych. ...

229 Zdarzają się takie momenty, kiedy trzeba odłożyć pewne rzeczy na bok. Wielu z nas pragnie cały czas perfekcyjnie żąglować wszystkimi aspektami naszego życia. Ale tak się nie da. Kiedy próbujemy tak robić przez dłuższy czas, wszystkie aspekty cierpią przez to. Nie bój się, nic się temu nie stanie jeśli odłożysz to na chwilę na bok. ...

228 Czasami nadchodzi ten dzień, kiedy trzeba się po prostu oczyścić. Odejść od rzeczy, które się dzieją dookoła nas, popatrzeć na większy obraz. Dzisiaj się oczyściłem. ...

227 Nowy rok, nowa droga. Droga bez nieszczerej presji, ignorowania głosów, patrzenia się w drugą stronę. To będzie trudna droga. Ale przynajmniej szczera. ...

227 O co chodzi? pca.st/y8fd3eyc Jaki jest mój motyw? Miłość Jak to interpretuję? Jak go chcę zastosować? O tym napiszę kiedyś więcej, ale chcę być cieplejszy dla innych. Gotowy pomóc, ale zarazem po prostu bardziej otwarty na dawanie ciepła, które gdzieś tam we mnie siedzi. Zamiast postanowień noworocznych planuję dwie rzeczy: motyw i system nawyków. W mojej skromnej opinii są one prawdziwą drogą do osiągnięcia swoich celów na nowy rok. ...

226 Działo się bardzo dużo - to jest oczywiste. Wydarzyło się wiele rzeczy dobrych, jak i wiele złych. Udało mi się "ruszyć" w wielu dziedzinach, które w moim życiu zalegały. Jest jedna rzecz (pisałem już o niej nie raz), która mi bardzo pomogła w tym roku; nawyki. Małymi kroczkami, tymi codziennymi nawykami, budujemy się w kierunku jakiegoś celu/postanowienia. Nie ma sensu marzyć o szczycie nie umiejąc chodzić po górach. ...

225 Niby to tylko numerek, który sobie sami wymyśliliśmy, aby być w stanie bardziej świadomie żyć - a jednak, ma on duże znaczenie w naszych głowach. 2020. Warto skorzystać z tego, że rzeczywiście kończy się rok - ba, nawet dekada! Warto choć raz w roku zatrzymać się i świadomie popatrzyć na swoje życie i pomyśleć o tym, jakie kroki można podjać w kolejnym roku. Jest taki arkusz, YearCompass, który pomaga w zrobieniu właśnie tego - zreflektowania się nad mijającym rokiem oraz tym nadchodzący...

224 Jak pisać więcej? Co jak co, ale jestem w stanie na to pytanie odpowiedzieć ze znacznie większą pewnością niż rok temu. Otóż, lubiłem bardzo pisać, ale nigdy nie byłem w stanie się do tego zmotywować. Udało mi się wyprodukować kilka ładnych tekstów, z których byłem dumny, natomiast sam proces pisania zawsze był dla mnie potwornie trudnym i dłużącym się wydarzeniem. Jakoś tak się stanęło, że w tym roku zacząłem pisać więcej. Moja "pisalność" wzrosła z 2% do 40%, gdzie 100% to wykorzystyw...

223 Wielu z nas chciałoby robić więcej w życiu. Podjąć jakąs nową pasję, spędzać więcej czasu z jakąś grupą znajomych/rodziną, poświęcać więcej czasu na sport itp. Jest to tym bardziej aktualne teraz biorąc pod uwagę Nowy Rok i nieskończony strumień postanowień noworocznych. Chcemy robić więcej. Jednak bardzo często większość z tych postanowień pozostaje niespełniona, porzucona, zaniedbana. Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Naruszamy nasze życiowe marginesy. Margines to jest ta przestrzeń, zarówn...

222 Zawsze jest najciężej wtedy, kiedy na coś się zamykamy. Nie chcemy ujżeć całej prawdy, całego obrazu. Tylko przeklinamy rzeczywistość. ...

221 Czasami sobie siadam na mojej huśtawce. A tam, taka zwykła drewniana huśtawka. Siadam na niej i wprawiam ją w ruch. Do przodu, do tyłu i z powrotem do przodu. Zawsze jedno następuje po drugim. I znowu z powrotem tak samo. W monotonii i rytmie znajduje się piękno. Piękno życia. Życia osadzonego w czasie i przestrzeni. ...

220 Dość często czuję ludzi. Czuję ich ból, ich radość. Czuję powody. I tak się z nimi razem cieszę, tak razem z nimi ubolewam... ...

219 A żeby Wam tak ciepło było na sercu. Wszystkiego co dobre, niczego co złe. ...

218 Przetrzyj oczy. Wiem, to nie jest takie oczywiste. ...

217 Ileż można się nad czymś zastanawiać? Nie lepiej po prostu iść? Nawet w złym kierunku? ...

216 Diagnoza: za dużo. Recepta: spuścić powietrze. ...

215 Nie? ...

214 Przecież ja o tym dobrze wiem! Temat spacerowania i wolniejszego tempa pojawiał się już na tym blogu niejednokrotnie. Już nie raz mówiłem o tym, że najlepiej jest robić rzeczy bez pośpiechu. A jednak ciągle wpadam w pułapkę. Wydaje mi się, że powinienem biec. Im dłużej biegnę, tym bardziej będę zmęczony po. A jeśli jestem bardzo zmęczony, to następuje po prostu krach. I wszystko idzie na marne. Na spokojnie, spacerkiem. ...

213 Czasami wydaje mi się, że jest za dobrze. I zawsze zaraz po tym, jak zaczynam tak myśleć, wszystko staje się gorsze. ...

212 Jak ważne jest dla ciebie doprawienie swojej pracy? Ten ostatni krok w procesie tworzenia, który pomaga wydobyć i podkreślić jej smak. ...

211 Właśnie tak. Po co sobie komplikować życie? ...

210 W tym roku, po raz pierwszy w życiu, zacząłem pisać dziennik. Zawsze myślałem o osobach piszących dzienniki jako jakiś szaleńcach, osobach nie posiadających wsparcia w życiu. Sam koncept zapisywania swoich wspomnień, refleksji gdzieś poza moją głową był mi bardzo obcy. Jednak, gdy okazało się, że wiele osób, które respektuję posiada dzienniki, zacząłem powoli zmieniać zdanie. I tak, w lipcu zacząłem "dzielić się" sobą z czymś zewnętrznym. Najpierw była to notatka na komputerze, potem kar...

209 Niesie mnie do przodu. Zimny jest. ...

208 Bywają takie momenty, w których wszystko dookoła układa się w jedną, mającą sens całość. Jednak kilka razy w ciągu ostanich tygodni jeden element tej układanki nie pasował: ja. Gdzieś, coś we mnie po prostu zgrzyta. Zazwyczaj wiem, co to jest. Jednak nie zawsze chcę się do tego przyznać. ...

207 Strasznie to lubię. Aż tak, że się tego boisz? ...

206 Uwielbiam koniec roku. Czuję, jakby właśnie zamykał się jakiś rozdział mojego życia. Mogę popatrzyć na cały rok i podsumować wszystko, co się wydarzyło. Wyciągnąć lekcje i zastosować je w kolejnym. ...

205 Utknąłeś? Nie możesz iść? Nie wiesz gdzie? Rusz się. Jakkolwiek. Gdziekolwiek. Idź na piechotę te trzy przystanki. Pójdź schodami zamiast windą. Uleczysz nie tylko swoje ciało, ale również swoją głowę i duszę. ...

204 Życie jest jak taniec. Raz idziesz krok do przodu, potem dwa do tyłu, jeden w prawo i kolejne dwa do przodu. Cały czas w ruchu. ...

203 Uwielbiam dobre nawyki. Już któryś raz sie przekonuję, że bez nich wszystko idzie ciężej. Są taką bazą codziennego życia. Motywują cię do działania lepiej, mądrzej i częściej. ...

202 Ostatnio kilka razy spotkałem się ze sformułowaniem "Koniec czasu". Jakże śmiesznie to brzmi, wyjęte z kontekstu... Czasu nie da się zakończyć. To jest właśnie to piękno, które w sobie niesie. Idzie do przodu. Zawsze. Nigdy, ale to nigdy się nie zatrzymuje. ...

201 Bez nich nie da się żyć. Kropka. Niech mi ktoś spróbuje powiedzieć, że mu się żyje lepiej samotnie. Przepraszam za wyrażenie, ale to jest gówno prawda... Oczywiście, każdy potrzebuje jakiejś przestrzeni dla siebie, ale ciągłe przebywanie w samotności może mieć nawet trwałe negatywne skutki na naszym zdrowiu fizycznym, nie mówiąc już o psychicznym. Weź kogoś dzisiaj na kawę. ...

200 Miałem pisać przez sto dni. -- Tak to już chyba jest. Nasze wyobrażenia o tym, co możemy zrobić są zawsze węższe niż to, co rzeczywiście jest możliwe. Jedna akcja prowadzi do kolejnej. W naszej głowie zostaje "wyryta" pewna codzienna czynność. Dzień wydaje się niepełny bez niej. Niedomknięty. Tak, jakbym zapomniał o myśleniu. Bo to jest dziennik. Dziennik moich myśli. -- Dużo myślę. Kiedyś myślałem za dużo. I właśnie z tego powodu zacząłem wyciągać te myśli z mojej głowy. Wyciągać, r...

199 Ja ja ja. ...

198 Niech on będzie malutki. Ale będzie. ...

197 Pora przesiąść się do jakiegoś innego pociągu. Ten już nigdzie nie pojedzie. ...

196 Żyj teraz, tutaj. Z szacunkiem dla przeszłości i rozwagą dla przyszłości. ...

195 Dziś jest ten dzień, kiedy mówię nie. Nie zrobię tego, o co mnie prosisz. Nie posłucham. Oddycham. ...

194 Zazwyczaj się spieszę rano. Wszystko jest z góry zaplanowane; moje nawyki składają się w bardzo konkretny poranny rytuał. Zazwyczaj, trochę jak robot, wykonuję wszystko krok po kroku. I działa to zazwyczaj dość dobrze. Jednak bywają takie dni, w których nie chce mi się spieszyć. Robię wszystko powoli, na spokojnie. Daję sobie czas na oddech. Jedno i drugie podejście dość dobrze działają, zauważam, że wszystko tak naprawdę zależy od tego, czy wykonam swoje nawyki, czy nie. ...

193 Zastanów się, co jest tą jedną, kluczową rzeczą, którą chcesz dzisiaj zrobić? Skupi się tylko na niej. Kręć podcast o 22. ...

192 Cały czas się zastanawiam; nad czym powinienem się skupić? Jest sporo rzeczy, dość różnych, jednak składających się w jedną wiekszą całość, które uwielbiam robić. Trochę tego, trochę tamtego, potem synteza. To jest to? ...

191 Procrastination - From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”). Zazwyczaj prokrastynację kojarzymy z czymś negatywnym, z ciągłym przekładaniem rzeczy na jutro. W mojej opinii jest to tendencja negatywna. Jednak gdy popatrzymy na etymologię tego słowa, widzimy, że nie jest ono samo w sobie negatywne. Przecież należące do jutra to może być coś pozytywnie ekscytującego, rozwoj...

190 Czy jest taki moment, w którym to, co robimy staje się wystarcająco dobre? Czy lepiej jest cały czas pracować nad jedną wielką rzeczą, czy "żonglować" kilkoma mniejszymi? ...

189 Rzeczy, które oglądałem, czytałem i słuchałem w ciągu minionego tygodnia. Czytam Bieguni - Olga Tokarczuk Range - David Epstein Atomowe Nawyki - James Clear (ponownie) Słucham Sleep Well Beast - The National Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz - How I Built This 80: Principles by Ray Dalio - Bookworm Oglądam I Tried Da Vinci's (Insane) Daily Routine: Here's What Happened Dan Ariely: How to change your behavior for the better Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejecti...

188 Wiele razy pisałem o niesamowitej sile zmiany. Udowodniałem dlaczego zmiana jest fundamentem rozwoju. Tak więc, od jakiegoś czasu staram się regularnie co kilka miesięcy robić przemeblowanie mojego pokoju. Po prostu przesuwam meble, wywalam i dodaję rzeczy. Za każdym razem coś "dopracowywuję" - tak, aby po prostu żyło mi się lepiej w tej przestrzeni. ...

187 Wysłuchaj, nie posłuchaj. Posłuchać to można sobie muzyki. ...

186 Jest takie stosunkowo nowe hasło/mantra: Nowy rok, nowa ja. Dlaczego aż rok? Ja sobie to hasło przerobiłem na: Nowy dzień, nowy ja Dzięki temu codziennie myślę o tym, jak mogę poprawić się względem dnia wczorajszego. ...

185 No i się z tego rytmu wybiłem. Napisałem, ale nie wysłałem maila z postem... Wiedziałem, że ten moment kiedyś nadejdzie... ...

184 Myślę sobie o pracy, rozwoju, nauce. O tym, jak można się stać lepszą wersją siebie. Zastanawiam się, dlaczego tak rzadkim obecnie jest zrozumienie czegoś od deski do deski? Dlaczego wolimy "przeskakiwać" pomiędzy różnymi zasobami, zamiast znaleźć jeden solidny i wchłonąć go całkowicie? ...

183 Życie kołem się toczy... Raz coś zbuduję, potem to upadnie. A za jakiś czas znowu odbuduję. Idę odbudowywać pewną część siebie. ...

182 Rzeczy, które oglądałem, czytałem i słuchałem w ciągu minionego tygodnia. Czytam Bieguni - Olga Tokarczuk Range - David Epstein Słucham Repave - Volcano Choir Are People Evil? - Deeply Curious Rest Is A Weapon - Focused Oglądam How Alexa Works (Probably!) Why You Never Have Enough Time My Minimalist Workspace Dobrej niedzieli! Do zobaczenia jutro ...

181 Jak często w życiu gramy? Jak często chowamy się pod jakąś maską? Dlaczego? ...

180 Czytam właśnie książkę Range autorstwa Davida Epsteina. Jej ogólnym tematem jest bycie generalistą w świecie specjalistów. Zastanawiam się; lepiej skupić się na jednej rzeczy przez całe życie, czy lepiej rozwijać się w różnych dziedzinach naraz?  ...

179 Skończyłem pracować nad nową wersją strony Produktywnego Ucznia (produktywnyuczen.pl). Myślałem dzisiaj o lekkości. O tym, jak łatwo można się czuć "pod ciśnieniem". Myślałem o tym, jak społeczeństwo powoduje że jesteśmy cięźsi - mamy większy balast. A zarazem ten balast nie wnosi absolutnie żadnej wartości do naszego życia. Czytam właśnie Biegunów Olgi Tokarczuk (tak, wiem ;). I dochodzę do wniosku, że ruch, bieg, jakaś dynamika w życiu jest kluczowa, aby móc efektywnie działać. ...

178 Bywają dni, w których wydaje mi się, że mogę zrobić więcej. Mówię tak na to jedno kolejne spotkanie. Mówię tak na wstanie pół godziny wcześniej... Przecież jutro będę mógł odpocząć. Tylko niestety jutro zrobię to samo, co dzisiaj. Zapożyczam się. Kiedyś przyjdzie dzień, w którym będę musiał to spłacić. ...

177 Myślisz sobie: ten to jest lepszy ode mnie... Czyli uważasz: chcę się zmienić Idź, działaj, zmieniaj się! ...

176 Ciągle w biegu, uciekając przed światem, a zarazem zyskując prowadzenie nad nim. ...

175 Rzeczy, które oglądałem, czytałem i słuchałem w ciągu minionego tygodnia. Czytam Bieguni - Olga Tokarczuk Pamięć nieulotna - Edward Snowden Słucham Polka - Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet The Art Of Pretending To Swim - Villagers Risk - TED Radio Hour Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff - How I Built This with Guy Raz Oglądam How We Built A Slot Machine You Always Win! There Is No Algorithm For Truth - Tom Scott 37signals Works Remotely Are you a giver or a take...

174 To, jak się czujesz zależy tylko i wyłącznie od twojej interpretacji świata. ...

173 Ciągnie mnie do Miejsca. Miejsca, które najprawdopodobniej nie istnieje. To znaczy, istniało. Nie ma go. Ludzie, którzy to Miejsce budowali, odeszli. Dom, w którym byliśmy, przestał istnieć. - Jednak jest Ono we mnie. Jego wspomnienie, tak silne, powoduje, że jestem Tam, gdzie chcę być. ...

172 Zastanawiam się ostatnio nad prędkością, z jaką powinienem żyć. Z jednej strony, jeśli pędzę za szybko, to przestaję widzieć swoje otoczenie. Jeśli idę za wolno, to nie osiągam nic. Chyba ten dynamiczny spacer to najlepsze rozwiązanie. ...

171 Oj, jacy my jesteśmy skomplikowani... Zacząłem ostatnio zwracać uwagę tak zwanemu "efektowi motyla" - zazwyczaj używa się go w kontekście geopolitycznym, socjologicznym czy ekonomicznym. Wydaje mi się, że występuje on również w nas. Gdy jest coś w naszym otoczeniu powodującego stres, lęk, zmartwienie, często możemy poczuć efekty tego w całkowicie innych sytuacjach. Nawet jeśli ten stresor nie jest powiązany z czymś bardzo ważnym w naszym życiu.Taki efekt motyla, tylko, że w naszej głowie. ...

170 Ehh, już chyba taki jest mój los... - Tak, wracam. Mimo tego, że nieco ponad tydzień temu, po pisaniu przez prawie cały miesiąc po angielsku, podjąłem decyzję o "wycofaniu się" poprzez wrzucanie krótkich cytatów zamiast pełnych wpisów, wracam.Wydaje mi się, że pisanie tego bloga po prostu zbyt bardzo weszło w moje DNA. Mimo tego, że bywały dni, tygodnie, w których bardzo trudno mi się pisało, to zawsze sam proces codziennej, publicznej konfrontacji z jakimś pomysłem dawał mi bardzo dużo.P...

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts." - Alan Cohen ...

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - CG Jung ...

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. " - Albert Camus ...

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Holmes Sr. ...

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." - Carl Gustav Jung ...

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." - Marie Skłodkowska-Curie ...

"A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy — that’s the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on." - John Steinbeck ...

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow - Mahatma Gandhi ...

161 Usually, there'd be a post called "This Past Week" on a Sunday. But, things are changing. As I've written many times before, one must constantly change. Without change, there's no true life. So, I'm changing things up a bit. This blog will become a sort of a "daily inspiration" place. Instead of writing 150-300 word posts, as I've done before, there'll be a short quote, idea, notion or something else that may be inspiring. In late July I experimented with writing a weekly newslette...

160 Ahh, if I could just work on the big things... - That's the approach I've had for most of my life, trying to focus on tasks & projects that were big. This year I realized that the small things also matter. In fact, they often matter most. ...

159 What if we could just live? I have a tendency to overthink a lot of the "life stuff". Often trying to figure out the best solution, even when there's no need for that. For the past few years I've tried adopting the Go With The Flow philosophy. Basically embracing life instead of trying to escape from aspects of it. Just inhaling the world. ...

158 Gosh, I feel like I've written about this before... I just re-watched (for the 10th time) this talk. It is about evolving education in the right way. In it, Ken Robinson talks about creating the right climate for change. Think about it... Instead of trying to force people to change, try creating the right climate/atmosphere for change to occur. Natural change means change to the fullest. In the best way possible. ...

157 Faster = Better + Stronger? I'm not so sure. Don't like to rush. ...

156 There are sooo many different apps that can create a great system. But the problem with all of these programs is that they were designed by someone else, not you. Even when an app touts itself as "flexible", there are still limitations both code-wise and design-wise. There is no perfect app. - But there's one tool that could be used exactly how you want it to be: paper. Paper has no limitations whatsoever. You can just create whatever you like, however you like. And that's why it's ...

155 Well... I meditated for 100 days in a row. But first, I should explain how I got into it. I've heard about the concept of meditation probably around 4 years ago. Like all uncommon ideas and practices, it seemed very weird at first. Almost peculiar. And so, for the next three and a half years I masterfully ignored meditation. Even though it's promised benefits were something I probably needed a lot. - In January this year, I started reading, watching & listening to various people, w...

154 Every week I'm doing a "recap" of the stuff I shared here. One key sentence from every post. Plus a few things I'm currently reading/watching/listening to. Enjoy! Key sentence Monday - When push comes to shove. Tuesday - Ok, I'll go live my life now. Wednesday - This notion of perfecting what is already great is something I'd like to explore more. Thursday - Each one of them is a small step forward. Friday - Simplicity is king. Saturday - It's always better to have more than one. Re...

153 Doing something completely alone is almost impossible. It's always better to have more than one. ...

152 This is a huge topic for me. I've been introduced to this notion of intentionaly constraining yourself in this episode of Focused, of my favorite podcasts. Those who now me well know that I am a bit of a productivity tool geek. For the past 1.5 I've been constantly looking for the best one. I always thought that be most automated, non-linear, all-in-one tool would make me the most productive. - But God was I wrong. Standard Notes, which is the one tool I've been consistently using dur...

151 So, time has come for me to rewrite my daily habit list. I've added three, removed one. Total is 14 habits a day. Every day. Each one of them is a small step forward. ...

150 Jose Gonzalez, one of my favorite music artists, recently went on a tour around Europe with a supporting band called The String Theory. I know Jose's music very well. His minimalistic, yet very powerful style is one that I really like. The album, called "Live In Europe" was recently released. In it, many of Jose's well-known songs are presented in a very different way. First of all, there are now string instruments backing his leading acoustic guitar, but there's also a real, huge drum k...

149 Parliamentary election results, here in my country Poland, are in. Someone won, others lost. Some got into the parliament, some didn't. But there's one thing that's worrying me a bit; more radical parties got in. The Left (literally the name of the party) got in with an astounding 12% result. The Confederacy (ultra right wing, very nationalist) got in with a smaller, but still impressive 6% result. While different views and opinions are definitely needed - they help make the country a...

148 In yesterday's issue of my newsletter I wrote about commitments. But what about responsibilities? All of us have many different responsibilities of various kinds. Work, family, taxes etc. But how often do we try to escape some of them? Nah, I don't want to do it today. Everyone's had that moment at least once in their life when it comes to responsibility. And it's totally ok. Everyone has the right to not be enthusiastic about what they have to do. But, the problem is that it's a...

147 Every week I'm doing a "recap" of the stuff I shared here. One key sentence from every post. Plus a few things I'm currently reading/watching/listening to. Enjoy! Key sentence Monday - Stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay. Tuesday - Unless we change, there's no growth. Wednesday - In ups and downs we exist. Thursday - Heck, life's hard. Friday - It's easier to see the shadows. Saturday - What is one thing you can remove from your life that would improve it? Recently...

146 What is one thing you can remove from your life that would improve it?, James Clear For most of my life, I've been a "hoarder", a collector. Always wanting more, never letting go of things. This notion of minimalism - achieving more by having less is still pretty fresh to me. But I've fallen in love with it instantaneously. ...

145 We love doing things that we enjoy, don't we? Going to the beach for a whole day with unlimited supplies of good wine sounds like a paradise, right? - We love setting conditions for being happy, pleased with life. I will be happy when this happens. She'll be happy whenever she dumps him. I'm going to be happy only if I make a million dollars. Isn't that purely stupid? Why can't we just enjoy the fundamental, ever-existing beaty of life? - It's easier to see the shadows. ...

144 Merriam - Webster Dictionary: Definition of proficiency 1: advancement in knowledge or skill : PROGRESS A few months ago I debated what does it mean to be a master? Now, I can't stop thinking about proficiency. What does it mean to be proficient in something? How do you exactly become that? Some people say: Go follow your passion Others say: Do what you're good at, not necessarily something you love Where's the balance? What's more important? Success or Proficiency ? Heck, ...

143 It's a magnificent moment, isn't it? Especially when it happens with other people around. Everyone feels so... accomplished. After hours and hours of hard work, finally things start making sense. Now, you can move forward and realize your dreams. But... is "progress" only going to happen through breakthrough moments? Or is there a more "stable", "linear" way. I don't think there is. No matter how hard you try, humans are not machines. In ups and downs we exist. ...

143 Let's be honest: It's really easy to get lost in life. If we stay in the same position for longer, things will stop making sense. Unless we change, there's no growth. Without growth life becomes meaningless. I've written about this both on this blog and in other places before. Every. Single. Time. Every time I get lost, a change of perspective suddenly makes things clear and meaningful again. I just can't stress enough how important it is. Maybe, that's what I want my "main message" t...

142 Stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay - Leonard Cohen, Democracy ...

141 Every week I'm doing a "recap" of the stuff I shared here. One key sentence from every post. Plus a few things I'm currently reading/watching/listening to. Enjoy! Key sentence Monday - So, I'm saying farewell to my place, because it'll never be the same again. Tuesday - Commitment is key to success. Wednesday - All is one. Thursday - Subconsciously escaping the now. Friday - Where are you going? Saturday - Snap. Recently watched Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, 2011, Directed by David Gelb. ...

140 Snap. I'm back. During the past five days I've had an amazing opportunity to spend time with some of my best friends, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Oh, and we were volunteering for an amazing community that helps disabled people. And yea, no cell phone signal. Thanks God. I have a lot of thoughts, ideas that I need to think about more, but at the same time I'm more at peace with the universe than I've ever been. ...

139 What's your destination? Where are you going? ...

138 Are you here? or are you living there? Not now. Either back in the past, or forward in the future. Subconsciously escaping the now. ...

137 All is one. One is all. ...

136 I had to walk 1.5 kilometers to publish this. Commitment is key to success. ...

135 I'm leaving. I'll be away from home for some time. I'm planning on going back, but still saying farewell. Because when I come back I'll be a different person with a different outlook on the world. So, I'm saying farewell to my place, because it'll never be the same again. ...

Myśl nr 134 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Mogę? Wtorek – Chcę przez to przejść. Środa – Czy początek? Czwartek – Ja dziękuję. Piątek – Inność i różnorodność to największa siła, jaką posiadamy. Sobota – W miesiącu październiku Codzienne Myśli będę pisał po angielsku. Słucham An Episode Out Of Time 4: Revenge of the Time - Cortex - [https://pca.st/ortda392] Czytam Crea...

Myśl 133 A co, gdyby tak poeksperymentować? Od 133 dni codziennie piszę coś. Czasami coś mądrego, czasami coś bardzo głupiego. Kocham ten format. Można powiedzieć, że wszedł mi w krew. Codziennie rano wstaję i zastanawiam się Co dzisiaj mogę napisać? Tak więc, eksperymentuję. W miesiącu październiku Codzienne Myśli będę pisał po angielsku. Bo dlaczego nie. See you on Tuesday. ...

Myśl nr 132 Dziś nie będzie długo. Inność i różnorodność to największa siła, jaką posiadamy. Jako kolektyw. Jednak jest to siła, którą najtrudniej jest nam posiąść. ...

Myśl nr 131 Co to znaczy być bogatym? Czym jest bogactwo? Mówimy często: No, ten to napewno jest strasznie bogaty! Nie zastanawiając się, co to dla nas oznacza. No dobra, bogactwo najczęściej powiązane jest z pieniędzmi. Dlaczego? Bo możemy to zmierzyć. Jak zmierzyć, porównać miłość? Jak zmierzyć, porównać dobro? Dlatego skupiliśmy się na kasie. Oh jak banalnie. I teraz będziemy się wszyscy porównywać, cały nasz świat będziemy budować na pojęciu: kto jest bogatszy? - Kiedyś słuch...

Myśl nr 130 Refleksja. Koniec. Czy początek? ...

Myśl nr 129 Często musimy robić rzeczy, których absolutnie nie chcemy robić. Rzeczy, które wydają się absolutnie bezsensowne/nudne/niepotrzebne. Często w takich sytuacjach mówimy sobie: muszę przez to jakoś przebrnąć. Wydaje mi się, że używając takiego słownictwa (a co za tym idzie nastawiania się w konkretny sposób) jeszcze bardziej utrudniamy sobie zadanie. A co jakbyśmy sobie mówili: Chcę przez to przejść. Albo nawet: Przebiegnę przez to. Oczywiście, zmiana sposobu opisywania/myśle...

Myśl nr 128 Jedna wielka nuda. Tak po prostu. Siedzę sobie i myślę; po co ja tu jestem? Słyszałem już tę wypowiedź nie raz. W różnych formach. Nie mogę wyjść. Mogę? ...

Myśl nr 127 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Pięknie jest. Wtorek – Teraz idę, szukam go dalej, na razie chyba skutecznie. Środa – Lepiej po prostu żyć, złapać życie za rogi. Czwartek – System jest tym, co powoduje, że osiągamy cele. Piątek – Właśnie dlatego wydaje mi się, że jednak czasami taki "poradnik życia" warto mieć. Sobota – Podróż tysiąca mil zaczyna się od jednego...

Myśl nr 126 Podróż tysiąca mil zaczyna się od jednego kroku. ...

Myśl nr 125 W kręgach produktywności dość popularne stają się tzw. "Life Wiki" - takie encyklopedie życia. Mają się w nich znajdywać np. informacje medyczne, prawne, finansowe itp. Niektórzy nawet tworzą sobie "CRM Znajomych" - czyli bazę danych wszystkich naszych kontaktów, gdzie zapisujemy np. częstotliwość spotkań, czy wartość znajomości. Szalone, nie? Brzmi absurdalnie głupio i niepotrzebnie. Bo trochę jest. Zdecydowana większość (może wszyscy?) nie mają absolutnie żadnych powodów, aby m...

Myśl nr 124 Tak się ostatnio zastanawiałem: Co jest ważniejsze: system czy cel? Jest taki bardzo interesujący przykład; Igrzyska Olimpijskie, sprinterzy ustawiają się na punkcie startowym. Każdy z nich ma ten sam cel: być pierwszym. Jednak zwycięzcą będzie tylko jeden z nich; ten, który miał najlepszy system. Cel może być taką latarnią, czymś co definiuje i nadaje sens. System jest tym, co powoduje, że osiągamy cele. ...

Myśl 123 No tak. Każdemu się zdarza. Nie? Tak właśnie ostatnio zastanawiałem się w swoim newsletterze; Ile przespałem? Ile razy zaspałem? Mamy tak, że przesypiamy ważne wydarzenia.Dzieje się tak z różnych powodów. Może coś nas boli, może chemy bardzo być w innym miejscu, innej rzeczywistości. Może chcemy uciec.Taka ucieczka przed życiem może się skończyć źle. Lepiej po prostu żyć, złapać życie za rogi. ...

Myśl 122 Od kilku tygodnii piszę newsletter zatytułowany In Search For Balance (W Poszukiwaniu Balansu, Harmonii, Równowagi). Staram się w nim dzielić pewną lekcją, obserwacją związaną z szukaniem równowagi w życiu. Oczywiście, każdy może ten temat inaczej interpretować, jednak chyba każdy widzi, że czasami warto być w środku. Ostatni rok był właśnie dla mnie takim znajdywaniem środka.  Teraz idę, szukam go dalej, na razie chyba skutecznie.https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antoszek ...

Myśl 121 Pięknie jest. Wszystko ma jakąś cząstkę piękna w sobie. Nawet jeśli nie chcemy tego dojrzeć. ...

Myśl 120 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Tak samo, jak piękny jest wschód słońca, piękna jest zmiana, wzrost, wschód. Wtorek – Mamy wiele narzędzi do wyboru. Środa – Też śmierdziało.Czwartek – Prawdziwie odpoczywać można tylko po prawdziwej pracy.Piątek – Chyba nie chce mi się wracać.Sobota – Ostrożnie iść do przodu. Słucham: 28: Doing vs. Investing - Process - https://open...

Myśl 119 No nie mogę... Nie mogę dokończyć bardzo ważnego zadania, które jest częścią bardzo ważnego projektu. Coś, co powinno być bardzo łatwe. Jednak "forsuję" się z tym od dawna, nie mogąc zbyt wiele zrobić. Mam dwie opcje:narzekać i siedzieć w miejscu, alboostrożnie iść do przodu ...

Myśl 118 Miesiąc temu powiedziałem, że znikam (nie całkowicie) z internetu do 14 września. Chyba nie chce mi się wracać. ...

Myśl 117 Dzisiaj się relaksuję.  Ostatni rok nauczył mnie wielu rzeczy, jednak jedną z najważniejszych było: Prawdziwie odpoczywać można tylko po prawdziwej pracy. Ohh, taki odpoczynek jest niesamowity! W zgodzie ze sobą, innymi, otoczeniem.  ...

Myśl 116 Spaliłem. Śmierdziało.Kiedyś spaliłem obietnicę daną bliskiej osobie. Też śmierdziało. ...

Myśl 115 Mamy wiele narzędzi do wyboru.  Aplikacje, notatniki, narzędzia i wszystko inne. Wiele z tych narzędzi jest częściowo lub całkowicie zautomatyzowanych - tz. nie musimy wykonywać danej akcji, maszyna się tym zajmuję. A ja wolę inaczej. Lubię manualnie wykonywać proste czynności. Lubię sam przepisywać swoje zadania z listy tygodniowej na listę dzienną, codziennie duplikować notatkę dziennik, która zawiera mój szablon. Czy to zabiera mi czas? Tak.Czy podejmuję dzięki temu decyzje bardz...

Myśl 114 Tak samo, jak piękny jest wschód słońca, piękna jest zmiana, wzrost, wschód.  ...

Myśl 113 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Ale mam pozytywne odczucia ;).Wtorek – Mocna współpraca zbudowana jest na osobistej niezależności.Środa – Co jest ważniejsze; pomysł, który inspiruje, czy plan, który kieruje?Czwartek – Co mogłem zrobić lepiej i jak to zastosować jutro?Piątek – Mniej, ale lepiej.Sobota – Czy zrobiłem dzisiaj coś miłego? Słucham: 28: You Are Not Your ...

Myśl 112Tak sobie ostatnio myślałem; Czy zrobiłem dzisiaj coś miłego?Tak po prostu, bezinteresownie, dla drugiej osoby. Bez jakiegoś wielkiego myślenia, po prostu działanie. Kurczę, jakbyśmy byli po prostu dla siebie mili...Sam nad tym muszę popracować, łatwiej kogoś "odszczekać" niż miło poklepać po ramieniu. ...

Myśl 111Mniej, ale lepiej. ...

Myśl 110 Jezu, że ja jeszcze nie napisałem o refleksji! Oczywiście, jak zawsze, temat rzeka, ale jakoś spróbujemy go ugryźć. Mimo tego, że często bywa tak, że jestem kompletnie zakręcony w tym, co robię, czy to szkoła, jakiś projekt, czy bycie ze znajomymi/rodziną, kocham refleksję. Bez niej nie mógłbym żyć. W przenośni i dosłownie. Mimo tego, że nawyk pisannia dziennika - jedna z najcudowniejszych form refleksji, "wskoczył" u mnie w 100% dopiero jakieś dwa miesiące temu, to od dawna ceniłe...

Myśl 109Co jest ważniejsze:pomysł, który inspiruje, czy plan, który kieruje? ...

Myśl 108 Razem lepiej. Razem więcej. Razem mocniej. Czy tego chcemy, czy nie, tak jest. Jest takie piękne zdanie: Mocna współpraca zbudowana jest na osobistej niezależności. Dokładnie. Aby móc mądrze i efektywnie pracować z innymi, w zespole, potrzebna jest dobrze rozwinięta i dobrze ukierunkowana niezależność, niepodległość.  ...

Myśl 107 No i tak... Z powrotem. Ale mam pozytywne odczucia :) Sławoszu, Tobiaszu, Marysiu, Anko, Marysiu, Kasiu, Dominiku, Klaro, Aniu, Jarku, Patryku, Panie Kamilu i Pani Karolino Witajcie :)  ...

Myśl 106W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Spacerujmy dalej.Wtorek – Dobrze, że mam nowe okulary.Środa – Jak osiągnąć mistrzostwo w tym, co się robi?Czwartek – Jestem zachwycony.Piątek – Czy taka możliwość "popatrzenia z boku" nie jest niesamowita?Sobota – I tak się stało. Słucham: Conflict is Solvable - Solvable - https://pca.st/5WZLtZ The Unknown Brain - TED Radio Hour - htt...

Myśl 105 Co to znaczy być elastycznym ? Jedni twierdzą, że są to ludzie bez planu, "łykający" wszystko, co im jest podawane.  Drudzy twierdzą, że są to ludzie otwarci na możliwości, gotowi na zmianę i co za tym idzie posiadający to, co najlepsze.  Wydaje mi się, że najlepiej gdzieś być pośrodku.  Mam konkretny plan, wiem co chcę w danym momencie zrobić, jednak poprzez konkretny system podejmowania szybkich decyzji, wiem, czy w danym momencie powinienem być elastyczny czy nie. Np. przez osta...

Myśl 104Właśnie słuchałem sobie najnowszego odcinka TED Radio Hour (świetny podcast/audycja): https://pca.st/KVk9U8. W nim, pewna neuroanatomistka opowiada swoją historię przejścia przez poważny udar, uczucia "nie bycia w sobie" i patrzenia na swoją świadomośc jak i ciało z boku. Oczywiście, nasza świadomość (pytanie czy to jeszcze można nazwać świadomością?) w takiej sytuacji jest bardzo zachwiana, czujemy się okropnie, nie wiemy, co się dzieje itp. Jest jednak też druga strona medalu.Czy taka ...

Myśl 103 Jestem zachwycony. Światem. Ludźmi. Naturą. Zachwycam się tym, że wszystko, co złe zawsze w końcu staje się dobre (albo ma dobry efekt). Zachwycam się tym, że my, ludzie, pomagamy tym, którzy potrzebują. Mimo tego, że łatwiej byłoby ich odrzucić. Zachwycam się tym, że pory roku, tak różne od siebie, przechodzą z jednej do drugiej w pięknym cyklu.Zachwycam się tym, że wszystko jest takie piękne.  ...

Myśl 102Jak osiągnąć mistrzostwo w tym, co się robi?Czy pasja jest konieczna? ...

Myśl 101Zaczyna się coś zdecydowanie nowego, jednak mocno oparte i zakorzenione w starym. Dobrze, że mam nowe okulary. ...

Myśl 100 Udało się. Sto dni pisania, bez przerwy.  Szczerze mówiąc, przez większość tego okresu nie miałem żadnego konkrentego celu. Po prostu chciałem pisać tak długo, jak dam radę. Myślałem, że może dam radę pisać przez tydzień, dwa, może miesiąc. Jednak gdzieś miesiąc temu uświadomiłem sobie, że mogę (i powiniene) iść dalej.  Na początku cały koncept pisania codziennie wydawał mi się absolutnie niemożliwy do zrealizowania. Pamiętałem, jakie miałem problemy z pisaniem cotygodniowego bloga p...

Myśl 99 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Natomiast w dzisiejszym świecie bardzo wiele decyzji, które musimy podejmować ma efekty odłożone w czasie.Wtorek – Nie obliczyłem dokładnych statystyk, ale przynajmniej połowa z tych ludzi ma status małżeński "Divorced" wpisany.Środa – Nie umiemy dobrze odmawiać.Czwartek – Coś, co zawsze się wydarzy?Piątek – Idź do parku, połóż się na tra...

Myśl 98Kocham Was ...

Myśl 97 W dzisiejszym świecie trudno znaleźć naturę. Miejsce, w którym jesteśmy otoczeni przyrodą, przestrzenią. Miejsce, w którym możemy spokojnie dokonać refleksji. Miejsce, w którym jesteśmi sami (albo z dala od innych). Kilka lat temu wyprowadziłem się z miasta, miało to wiele swoich minusów, dojazdy gdziekolwiek zajmują dużo czasu, ale ta natura, przestrzeń, to jest coś, czego nigdy bym nie wymienił na "szybki transport". Mogę spacerować przez prawię godzinę, zazwyczaj nie spotykając ani j...

Myśl 96Ostatnio, pod wpływem jednak już ochładzającej się pogody, zastanawiałem się nad swoją ulubioną porą roku.Chyba takiej nie mam. Kocham tą cykliczność, zmienność, która przejawia się w pogodzie. Daje mi to trochę takie oparcie, gdy myślę o przyszłości. Czy taką cykliczność da się wprowadzić w życiu?Jakieś granice, mechanizmy, wydarzenia itp. Coś, co zawsze się wydarzy? ...

Myśl 95 Nie umiemy dobrze odmawiać.  Albo akceptujemy propozycje, nie będąc nawet pewni, czy możemy na tym zadaniu się skupić, albo odmawiamy z wyrzutami sumienia.  Jeśli powiemy tak, a wiemy, że nie będziemy w stanie wykonać tego zadania, w pewnym momencie tak czy siak będziemy musieli powiedzieć nie. Tylko wtedy to nie będzie zarówno źle odebrane przez drugą osobę, jak i wygeneruje złe emocje i myśli w nas. Jeśli od razu powiemy nie, możemy narazić się na brak zrozumienia i opinię "Ach, on...

Myśl 94Tak z czystej ciekawości wszedłem na listę "Billionares of the World" Forbesa, wybrałem filter "Poland" i przeglądnąłem wyniki. Nie obliczyłem dokładnych statystyk, ale przynajmniej połowa z tych ludzi ma status małżeński "Divorced" wpisany.  To mówi samo za siebie. ...

Myśl 93 Tak zwany odłożony wynik lub odłożona nagroda to coś, z czym sobie nie radzimy. W jakiejś książce, którą czytałem, nie pamiętam już jakiej, autor opowiadał właśnie o tym, jak jesteśmy ewolucyjnie przyzwyczajeni do natychmiastowych nagród/wyników. Przecież nasi przodkowie na sawannach Afryki mieli dość prosty system motywacji i osiągania wyników; jeśli będziesz polował na np. bizony, musisz albo tego bizona zabić, albo on cię zabije. Prosty system z natychmiastowym wynikiem. Natomiast ...

Myśl 92 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – wYgOdAWtorek – Dzisiaj stworzyłem pierwszy szkic tego, co mogłoby kiedyś zostać Mapą Życia. Środa – Jak siebie nagradzasz, nagradzaj innych, jak besztasz, besztaj.Czwartek – Wyobraź sobie poranek jako taką katapultę na cały dzień - jeśli mocno ją zaciągniesz, to mocno cię wystrzeli - wiele energii ci da na resztę dnia.Piątek – Pierwszego ...

Myśl 91 Mimo tego, że chcemy iśc do przodu, zbieramy rzeczy pozostawione z tyłu. Niedokończone zadania, niezrealizowane obietnice, pomysły. My, zamiast pchać świat przed sobą, ciągniemy go na swoich barkach, ledwo sapiąc. Oczywiście, tak pędząc szybko do przodu możemy szybko przebiec, zgubić nasz cel. Zatracić się w pędzie.Trzeba trenować jak do maratonu, ale tylko truchtać. ...

Myśl 90Nie mam jakiejś długiej historii na dzisiaj. Mam za to prototyp, wynik pracy ostatnich trzech miesięcy:Dziękuję wszystkim, którzy mnie wspierali i wspierają dalej. Pierwszego września strona będzie już dostępna.  ...

Myśl 89 Mówiliśmy kiedyś, dawno temu o nawykach - budowaniu rytmu.  Dzisiaj chciałbym podkreślić wagę poranka i rutyny porannej. Wyobraź sobie poranek jako taką katapultę na cały dzień - jeśli mocno ją zaciągniesz, to mocno cię wystrzeli - wiele energii ci da na resztę dnia. Jeśli natomiast słabo ją zaciągniesz, to energia twoja będzie słabsza. Proste.  Mój dobry poranek musi zawierać: Czas na refleksjęCzas na spojrzenie na dzieńCzas na ruchCzas na analizę tygodniowych celów Wszystko to ro...

Myśl 88Takie piękne słowo. Wszyscy je znamy, jednak wbrew pozorom rzadko używamy.Zazwyczaj, gdy już jednak jest ono używane, używamy go w kontekście emocji, uczuć. Na przykład; kochamy się wzajemnie albo nienawidzi mnie z wzajemnością. A co, gdyby traktować innych wzajemnie? Spróbuj, przez pewien okres czasu, traktować innych dokładnie tak, jak ty traktujesz siebie na codzień. Jak siebie nagradzasz, nagradzaj innych, jak besztasz, besztaj. Dlaczego tak?W ten sposób, na podstawie reakcji innych, ...

Myśl 87Już tutaj kilka razy dzieliłem się konceptem "mapy życia". Mapy naszych ambicji, emocji, relacji, tożsamości. Ponieważ kocham zarówno mapy, jak i psychologię, cały czas o tym myślę. Dzisiaj stworzyłem pierwszy szkic tego, co mogłoby kiedyś zostać Mapą Życia. To jest tylko przykład. Dajcie mi znać, co o tym sądzicie.  ...

Myśl 86 PRYWATNOŚĆ No właśnie.  Czy to słowo w ogóle coś jeszcze znaczy? Korzystając z wszechobecnych urządzeń, które cały czas podpięte do internetu wysyłają na bieżąco naszą lokalizację, analizują emaile oraz wiadomości przez nas otrzymane i wysłane w celu "optymalizacji reklam", na podstawie historii naszych płatności budują wirtualny model naszej tożsamości i wiele, wiele innych nieładnych rzeczy, nic nie zyskujemy. Cała ta "technologia" jest sprzedawana nam pod jednym szyldem  wYgOdA ...

Myśl 85 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – A co jakby tak połączyć się z samym sobą?Wtorek – Jaka mocna musi być pasja, aby zachęcać do czynu?Środa – A może łatwiej; robić?Czwartek – Czasami to, co dla ciebie jest codziennością, dla innych jest zbawieniem.Piątek – Gdzie płyniesz?Sobota – Cel, sam w sobie, oprócz odpowiedzi na pytanie Gdzie płyniesz?, odpowiada na pytanie Dlaczego ...

Myśl 84Zawsze, jak zabieram się za pisanie tego bloga, loguję się do mojej aplikacji notatek i sprawdzam, czy to, o czym chcę dzisiaj napisać nie pojawiało się już wcześniej w jakiejś formie. I, szczerze mówiąc, trudno mi uwieżyć, że jeszcze nie napisałem o celu.Dlaczego?Cel, sam w sobie, oprócz odpowiedzi na pytanie Gdzie płyniesz?, odpowiada na pytanie Dlaczego płyniesz?.Cel jest naturalnie połączony z powodem, często oba są zlepione z tej samej gliny. Na przykład:Cel: pisać tego bloga codzien...

Myśl 83 Gdzie płyniesz? Twoja łódka jest stabilna. Trzymasz w ręku ster, wiesz, jak z niego korzystać. Twój żagiel jest ogromny. Zresztą, sam go uszyłeś. Czujesz się pewnie. Znasz to morze. A przynajmniej tak ci się wydaje. Wiesz, w którą stronę wieje wiatr. Gdzie płyniesz? ...

Myśl 82 Kiedy ostatni raz dałeś/aś komuś szansę stać się lepszym człowiekiem?Czasami to, co dla ciebie jest codziennością, dla innych jest zbawieniem. ...

Tylko radzić i radzić.A może łatwiej; robić? ...

Jaka mocna musi być pasja, aby zachęcać do czynu?Czy to w ogóle da się zmierzyć? ...

Myśl 79Kontynuując temat z przedwczoraj; Połączyć możemy się teraz z każdym, wszędzie i tak naprawdę kiedy chcemy. I to jest niesamowite. Możemy budować relacje w całkowicie inny sposób, na tak naprawdę innej płaszczyźnie. Ja w ten sposób poznałem wiele wartościowych dla mnie osób. Ale jest też druga strona. Chyba wszyscy wiemy o tym, że samotność wzrasta w drastycznym tempie. Mimo tysięcy znajomych, "followersów", czujemy się gorzej niż wcześniej. Z tą możliwością połączenia jest tak jak z...

Myśl 78 W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – W momencie, w którym żyjesz (dążysz do) w symbiozie ze swoim otoczeniem, ty kontrolujesz swoje rzeczy, a nie twoje rzeczy kontrolują ciebie.Wtorek – Idź, znajdź swój Punkt Przełamania.Środa – Czy czas, energia i pieniądze w stworzenie czegoś z własną tożsamością są w stanie się "zwrócić" poprzez wartość dodaną tego czegoś?Czwartek – Najpr...

Wszyscy Wszystko WiedząZ czymś Wam się to kojarzy?Internet jest niesamowitym miejscem. Można tam znaleźć miejsca pełne dobrych ludzi i porad, a zarazem miejsca przepełnione pychą, arogancją i często nawet nienawiścią.WWW ...

Myśl 76 Zasady Jedną z rzeczy, nad którymi jest obecnie pracuje jest budowanie zasad. Konkretnych zasad, takich "algorytmów", które wskażą mi drogę w trudnych (i nie tylko) sytuacjach. Te zasady tworzę z myślą o najgorszych sytuacjach, takich, w których mogę nie myśleć w pełni. Natomiast od początku roku pracuję również na drugim froncie. Froncie codzienności. Budowa rytmu Wstajesz rano, co robisz? Masz jakąś konkretną kolejność wykonywania czynności? Jakiś rytm? Dla mnie bardzo ważnym...

Kochamy skoplikowane narzędzia.Skomplikowane narzędzia ograniczają naszą produktywnośc i kreatywność - zamiast skupić się na pracy, skupiamy się na narzędziu.Najprostszymi narzędziami tworzy się najbardziej skomplikowaną pracę. ...

Lubimy gotowe rozwiązania, takie, które nie wymagają adaptacji, modyfikacji.Weźmy na przykład meble;Idziemy do sklepu, kupujemy; biurko, szafę, łóżko, fotel, nakastlik, trzy szafki i krzesło obrotowe.No i ok, fajnie, mamy umeblowany pokój.A co, gdybyśmy zrobili jeden, choć jeden mebel sami? Albo przynajmniej jakoś udekorowali?Pytanie:Czy czas, energia i pieniądze w stworzenie czegoś z własną tożsamością są w stanie się "zwrócić" poprzez wartość dodaną tego czegoś? ...

Myśl 73Gdzie leży twój Punk Przełamania?Ile czasu, zasobów będziesz musiał spędzić na wykonywaniu niewłaściwych czynności, zanim przełamiesz się i zaczniesz robić właściwe?Większość ludzi właśnie tak działa, są w stanie w pewnym momencie podnieść głowę i zapytać;Dlaczego ja to robię?Idź, znajdź swój Punkt Przełamania. ...

Myśl 72 Już może kiedyś o tym tutaj pisałem,  nevermind. Twoje otocznie fizyczne ma większy wpływ na ciebie niż sobie zdajesz. Zapchany mózg, wypełniony niepotrzebnymi, brzydkimi myślami? Posprzątaj dom, skoś trawnik, wymyj samochód. Brud z twojego fizycznego otoczenia odkłada się w tobie. W momenice, w którym żyjesz (dążysz do) w symbiozie ze swoim otoczeniem, ty kontrolujesz swoje rzeczy, a nie twoje rzeczy kontrolują ciebie.  ...

Myśl 71  10 tygodni!!!! W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Ta niemożliwie prosta i oczywista możliwość tworzenia czegokolwiek jest niesamowita.Wtorek – O ile solidniejsze, słuszniejsze, lepsze mogłyby być nasze konstrukcje, gdybyśmy mieli jakiś plan?Środa – Wystarczy się przesunąć, nawet niewiele.Czwartek – Prezent, oprócz oddziaływania na osobę obdarowywaną, może mieć (i bardzo ...

Myśl 70"Nie mam czasu" - powiedział chyba każdy człowiek żyjący w naszych czasach. Powiem wprost:A to gówno prawda. To jest mój blog i mogę używać słownictwa jakiego żywcem mi się podoba ;)Każdy ma tyle samo czasu. 168 godzin tygodniowo. Jeff Bezos ma tyle samo czasu ile ty.Powiem ci coś jeszcze ciekawszego;Tylko ty zarządzasz swoim czasem. Nikt inny. Sam podejmujesz decyzję, co następnie zrobisz.Więc proszę, nie pieprz, że nie masz czasu. ...

Myśl 69Chcę stworzyć system zasad dla siebie, który zminimalizuje moją bezmyślność.W sytuacjach nagłych, stresujących, generujących negatywne emocje, często nasz proces myślowy przestaje działać prawidłowo - właśnie przez te emocje i nagłość.Ja chcę (na ile to możliwe) stworzyć system zasad - algorytmów, które wskażą mi drogę w trudnych sytuacjach.  Tutaj więcej o tym:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antoszek ...

Myśl 68Czy pamiętasz kiedy ostatni raz dałeś komuś prezent?Nie z jakiejś specjalnej okazji. Tak po prostu.Mam jeszcze lepsze pytanie:Kiedy dałeś prezent osobie, która wyrządziła ci coś złego?Prezent, oprócz oddziaływania na osobę obdarowywaną, może mieć (i bardzo często ma) ogromny, pozytywny efekt na osobę dającą - dawanie leczy i buduje. ...

Myśl #67 Wiele już tutaj pisałem o przesuwaniu się. Dzisiaj chciałbym opowiedzieć o jednym z najlepszych elementów zmiany. -- Jeśli po jakiejś zmianie - eksperymencie wrócimy (nawet częsciowo) do poprzedniego stanu, zyskujemy nową perspektywę - taki "reset rzeczywistości". To, co wcześniej mogło wydawać się nudne, wyblakłe, oczywiste, nagle zyskuje nowe, żywsze, piękniejsze barwy. Wystarczy się przesunąć, nawet niewiele. ...

Myśl #66 Ciągle coś konstruujemy w życiu. Czasami są to wieże (samo-wzrost), mosty (relacje), domy (tożsamość) czy drogi (emocje). O tych analogiach jeszcze kiedyś napiszę. Tylko, czy kiedykolwiek mamy jakiś plan? Zazwyczaj budujemy nasze konstrukcje na ślepo, tworząc plan na bieżąco. O ile solidniejsze, słuszniejsze, lepsze mogłyby być nasze konstrukcje, gdybyśmy mieli jakiś plan? ...

Taka szybka refleksja:Kocham papier. Dobrej jakości papier. Mimo tego, że piszę bardzo wiele (większość) treści na komputerze, papier ma dla mnie wciąż ogromną wartość. Ta niemożliwie prosta i oczywista możliwość tworzenia czegokolwiek jest niesamowita. Większość z tych postów zrodziła się właśnie na papierze. ...

W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Jeśli nie będziesz się zmieniał, utkniesz.Wtorek – Rozproszenia trzeba likwidować wszelkim kosztem, nawet jeśli ma to wymagać ciężkich poświęceń.Środa – Zamiast odkładać, zainwestuj.Czwartek – Co robisz?Piątek – Dzisiaj mijają dwa miesiące Codziennych Myśli.Sobota – Nawet jeśli nikt tego nie czyta, to warto.Słucham:Calling All Dawns - Christopher ...

Tak jak wczoraj mówiłem, dzisiaj dłuższa refleksja na temat tego blogaPodziel sięKoncepcja "daily bloga", czy właśnie Codziennych Myśli jest dla mnie stosunkowo nowa. Mimo tego, że w ogólnym świecie blogów kręcę się od dawna (pierwszy circa 2010), to w ogóle sam pomysł pisania dzień w dzień czegoś nowego jest dla mnie nowy.Ale bardzo go lubię. Codziennie loguję się do Standard Notes, klikam przycisk +, taguję notatkę #Codzienne Myśli i piszę. Czasami w pośpiechu, w kilka minut, czasami kontemplu...

Dzisiaj mijają dwa miesiące Codziennych Myśli.Bardzo Wam dziękuję za wszystko.Jutro podzielę się dłuższą refleksją na temat ciągłości. ...

Zabierasz się do pracy.Super! To już pierwszy krok za tobą.No to teraz mam do ciebie pytanie:Co robisz?Dlaczego?Zdefiniuj to, co robisz. Nazwij powody, zakwestionuj tego słuszność. Nie za mocno, ale przynajmniej na tyle, aby umocnić swoją wiedzę i motywację. ...

Co zrobisz dziś, aby jutro było lepszym dniem?Zamiast odkładać, zainwestuj. ...

Najgorsze w rozproszeniach jest to, że oprócz ich rozpraczających możliwości, potrafią (i bardzo często są) uzależniające. Zwłaszcza, jeśli nasza praca jest trudna albo nudna (lub jedno i drugie).Wtedy takie proste, nic nie wymagające rozproszenie staje się jedyną pożądaną rzeczą. Rozproszenia trzeba likwidować wszelkim kosztem, nawet jeśli ma to wymagać ciężkich poświęceń.Bo inaczej, jaką wartość ma twoja praca? ...

Zmień swoje środowisko.Dlaczego?Kiedyś w pewnym poście udowadniałem, że każda zmiana jest dobra. Post: https://antoszek.blog/2019/06/02/addicted-to-change/A więc, zmien swoje środowisko. Nie porzucaj, zmień. Nie musisz zmienić wszystkiego naraz. Zmień lokalizację. Zmień pracę. Zmień nastawienie.Jeśli nie będziesz się zmieniał, utkniesz.A jak utkniesz, to się rozpadniesz.  ...

W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Przez ostatnie sześć miesięcy nauczyłem się jednej rzeczy - zbyt długi sprint zawsze skutkuje w krachu.Wtorek – Kiedy to, co robisz pomaga komuś jeszcze oprócz ciebie, staje się prawdziwe.Środa – Przypadek? Nie sądzę.Czwartek – Więc ty, idź i znajdź swoją misję.Piątek – Nie da się przeskoczyć, zawsze trzeba znaleźć i zdefiniować następny krok.Sobo...

Jaka będzie twoja życiowa trasa?Moja napewno nie będzie prosta. ...

Najważniejszą myślą przy planowaniu pracy, projektów jest zrozumienie pojęcia, że wszystko trzeba robić krok po kroku. Nie da się przeskoczyć, zawsze trzeba znaleźć i zdefiniować następny krok. ...

Coraz popularniejszym staje się spisywanie takiej osobistej "misji" mającej na celu przedstawienie wartości i celów danego człowieka.Ja uważam, że jest to jedna z najlepszych rzeczy, jakie można zrobić.Pewnie narasta wam w głowie kilka pytań:Ale jak pomieścić całego człowieka w dokumencie?Czy to nie odbiera osobowości?Przecież tak szybko się zmieniamy, że taki dokument przestanie być ważny bardzo szybko.Tak,powiedz mi, czy nie fajnie byłoby wiedzieć czego chcesz w życiu? Co cenisz, a czego nie? ...

Przed chwilą słuchałem odcinku the TED Interview z Timem Ferrisem. (https://pca.st/sY8w).W nim Tim opowiada swoją historię o tym, jak prawie popełnił samobójstwo.Był wtedy studentem, miał dużą presję ze strony swoich rodziców, dużo perypetii miłosnych.Chciał popełnić samobójstwo. Był pewien, że już nie da rady. Aby pomóc sobie w tym, zamówił książkę "10 Kroków do Efektywnego Samobójstwa" lub coś w tym stylu. Przez przypadek książkę zamówił na adres swoich rodziców, a nie akademika.Gdy jego matka...

Kiedy to, co robisz pomaga komuś jeszcze oprócz ciebie, staje się prawdziwe. ...

Mam nadzieję, że wszyscy już dobrze wiemy, że najlepszą metodą nauki jest nauka na błędach.Ja też się tak uczę. Codziennie.Przez ostatnie sześć miesięcy nauczyłem się jednej rzeczy - zbyt długi sprint zawsze skutkuje w krachu. A więc było tak:Koniec Gimnazjum, no to trzeba wszystko ładnie zrobić. Wyrobić się ze wszystkim na czas, dobrze napisać test gimnazjalny itp. Oprócz tego zainspirowany masą książek i takim ogólnym wzrostem w życiu, postanowiłem wreszcie zacząć rozwijać moje pasje. Przygoto...

W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – A co jeśli dobra praca jest wynagrodzeniem?Wtorek – Tylko działać.Środa – Większość naszych umiejętności poznawczych opiera się na porównywaniu i skalowaniu rzeczy między sobą.Czwartek – Jesteśmy jak bardzo stary człowiek, który jest tak skrzywiony, że naraz jest w stanie patrzeć tylko na malutki skrawek ziemi.Piątek – Doszliśmy do wniosku, że naj...

Kim jest człowiek bez swoich narzędzi? Czym są narzędzia bez swojego człowieka? ...

Kiedyś miałem godzinę wychowawczą w mojej szkole.Rozmawialiśmy o wartościach.Doszliśmy do wniosku, że najważniejszą wartością jest zdrowie. ...

CząsteczkaJedną z rzeczy, których powinna nas uczyć szkoła jest analiza.Coś, czym ludzkość szczyci się od dawna. Umiejętność dekompozycji, wgłębnego rozłożenia kompleksowych konstrukcji na pojedyncze cząsteczki. Analizujemy problemy matematyczne, wydarzenia historyczne, globalne konflikty, proces twórczy Sztaudyngera, cykl rozwojowy komara...Często analiza jest jedyną metodą zrozumienia takich właśnie kompleksowych zagadnień. Dobrze, że analizujemy świat. Dzięki temu możemy coś się o nim dowiedz...

Skala jest bardzo ważnym pojęciem.Dla jednej osoby miesiąc to długi okres czasu, dla innej jest to dziesięć lat.Większość naszych umiejętności poznawczych opiera się na porównywaniu i skalowaniu rzeczy między sobą. Gdyby nie skala, nasz świat nigdy by się tak nie rozwinął. ...

Awaria systemu.Nic nie działa.Nic nie można zrobić.Tylko działać. ...

Jak wynagrodzić człowieka po dobrej pracy?A co jeśli dobra praca jest wynagrodzeniem? ...

W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Siła i pewność, jaką władali ludzie tamtych czasów, naprawdę by nam się przydała dzisiaj w naszym super-połączonym świecie.Wtorek – Może zamiast mierzenia wściekłości, wkurzenia, mierzmy ciepło serca.Środa – Język miłości, zrozumienia i wsparcia.Czwartek – Mamy jakąś wizję pierwszych kroków, ale nie mamy czegoś, na czym można polegać.Piątek – Odpł...

Budowanie relacji jest bardzo długim i skomplikowanym procesem.I to jest właśnie ta magia.Nie wiesz, jak co pójdzie. Nie wiesz, kogo napotkasz na swojej drodze.Nie wiesz, jakie decyzje podejmiesz.Wiesz, że dobro zawsze cię otacza. ...

Są takie miejsca, które śmierdzą przeszłością. Zazwyczaj ten zapach nie jest nieprzyjemny, ale jest bardzo intensywny. Każdy zna takie miejsca. Tutaj w Krakowie jest jedno takie. Nowa Huta, bo o niej mowa, jest jednym z moich ulubionych miejsc w Krakowie. Przeszłość została zatrzymana w czasie. Najlepsze jest to, że z tej przeszłości pozostały spokój i pokój, a nie walka i rozpacz.Odpłyń w przeszłość. ...

Jesteśmy w tej chwili na tyle potężnym społeczeństwem, że standardy życia są bardzo wysokie.Znaleźliśmy rozwiązanie na zdecydowaną większość problemów i utrudnień jakie nas dotykały.Jednak nie jesteśmy w stanie stworzyć Systemu Zarządzania Wielkimi Problemami Ludzkości.Nie wiemy, co zrobić z globalnym ociepleniem, zanieczyszczeniem środowiska, przeludnieniami.,,Mamy jakąś wizję pierwszych kroków, ale nie mamy czegoś, na czym można polegać. ...

Tak się dzisiaj zastanawiałem;czy istnieje jakiś język współpracy?Chyba znam odpowiedź:Język miłości, zrozumienia i wsparcia. ...

Ehhh znowu jest gorąco...Tak sobie właśnie myslałem o temperaturze i aspekcie w jakim jej używamy.Mówimy - nie denerwuj mnie, zaraz wybuchnę! Albo: Był taki zły, że się prawie ugotował!Może zamiast mierzenia wściekłości, wkurzenia, mierzmy ciepło serca.Ja wiem, że czasami z tego korzystamy. Takie ciepłe słowa. ...

Miałem szansę ostatnio spotkać się ponownie z moim przyjacielem zza oceanu.Rozmawialiśmy o wielu rzeczach, ale spędziliśmy trochę czasu mówiąc o naszej przeszłości, dziedzictwie.On opowiedział mi historię swojej babci, która ponad sto lat temu przypłynęła sama w wieku 15 lat z Polski do Stanów Zjednoczonych.Siła i pewność, jaką władali ludzie tamtych czasów, naprawdę by nam się przydała dzisiaj w naszym super-połączonym świecie.  ...

W niedzielę dzielę się z Wami jednym najważniejszym zdaniem z każdego dnia minionego tygodnia, oraz tym, co czytam, słucham i oglądam: Poniedziałek – Lubię zadawać pytania.Wtorek – Dzień, w którym mamy celebrować siebie. Cieszyć się ze swojego istnienia.Środa – Do zobaczenia!Czwartek – Wreszcie mogę się zabrać za moje pomysły!!!!Piątek – Zasada to zasada.Sobota – Ile razy w życiu mamy takie sytuacje, w których nie jesteśmy w stanierozróżnić ludzi w potrzebie od morza pustych (napełnionych powie...

Czytałem dzisiaj sobie taki artykuł o Ballonfest 1986 w Cleveland. O co chodzi: pewna organizacja charytatywna postanowiła zebrać pieniądze poprzez zorganizowanie happeningu polegającego na pobiciu rekordu ilości balonów wypuszczonych naraz. 1.5 miliona balonów. Udało im się. Niestety zaraz po wypuszczenie tychże balonów przyszła burza. Większość balonów, które miały spokojnie "rozłożyć" się na terenie kilkudziesięciu kilometrów kwadratowych, zamiast tego większość z nich wylądowała przy brzeg...

Dzisiaj robie sobię przerwę.Ale piszę o tym, bo muszę.Zasada to zasada. ...

Pisałem już tutaj kiedyś o implementacji pomysłu.Wreszcie mogę się zabrać za moje pomysły!!!!Kilka ciekawych rzeczy, którymi będę się zajmował:Produktywny Uczeń - beta.produktywnyuczen.pl - portal dla uczniów i studentów pomagający w ogarnięciu szkoły, pomysłów, odpowiedzialności i życia. Potrzebuję trochę osób do beta testów - można się zapisać klikając w link powyżej. Start: 1.08.2019Kluczowe Pytanie - anchor.fm/kluczowepytanie - podcast zadający i szukający odpowiedzi na kluczowe pytania w kw...

Nie mówię "żegnajcie", tylko "do zobaczenia". Zobaczymy się jeszcze. Jeśli nie tu, to tam na górze. Patryku, Sławoszu, Krzysiu, Nino, Tobiaszu, Jarku, Aniu, Maju, Dominiku, Bisiu, Kasprze, Stefo, Marysiu, Anko, Klaro, Agato, Maju, Marysiu, Gabrysiu, Natalio, Panie Kamilu i Pani Magdo. Do zobaczenia! ...

Urodziny. Takie osobiste święto. Raz do roku. Dzień, w którym mamy celebrować siebie. Cieszyć się ze swojego istnienia. A nie można tak codziennie? ...

Lubię zadawać pytania:https://anchor.fm/kluczowepytanie ...

W niedzielę będę przygotowywał takie podsumowania tego bloga, oraz tego, co czytam, słucham i oglądam. Jedno najważniejsze zdanie z każdego postu:Poniedziałek – I tak przez całe życie patrzymy ślepo do góry, często nawet zapominając o ludziach dookoła.Wtorek – Mimo tego, że nie jest to najważniejszy aspekt dobrego pisania, odpowiednie narzędzie pozwala się odpowiednio skupić i zachęca do dalszego pisania.Środa – To nie jest dla nich, to jest dla mnie.Czwartek – Co się stanie, gdy ludzie przyzwyc...

Uf - jak gorąco!Puf - jak gorąco!I co teraz robić? ...

Wyobraź sobie spokój. Taki spokój, który jest wszędzie i zawsze. Nawet, gdy dzieje się coś naprawdę poważnego, stresującego, ty czujesz tylko i wyłącznie spokój. Wiele osób myśli, że taki spokój oznacza odrzucenie negatywnych emocji, tłumienie ich. To nie jest prawda. Aby odkryć spokój należy zaakceptować negatywne emocje, wsłuchać się w nie, postarać się zrozumieć. W języku angielskim jest takie słowo: "embrace", trudno je przetłumaczyć na język polski, jak ktoś zna, to super. W ten sposób...

Co się stanie, gdy ludzie przyzwyczajeni do robienia rzeczy zaplanowanych z góry (uczniowie/pracownicy bez kontroli) dostaną absolutną wolność? Co musielibyśmy robić (jako społeczeństwo), aby pobudzać kreatywność i chęć współpracy? Czy to w ogóle jest możliwe? ...

Zaczynając tego bloga jedynym moim celem była systematyczność. Chciałem po prostu codziennie pisać coś nowego - nieważne, czy to było coś specjalnie inteligentnego i oryginalnego, tylko coś nowego. Szczerze mówiąc, nie zawsze się bardzo zastanawiam nad tym, co piszę. Chcę, żeby to było po prostu coś ode mnie w najczystszej i najbardziej szczerej formie jak się da. Jestem już w czwartym tygodniu codziennego pisania i tak, były trudne momenty. Były momenty, w których byłem blisko poddania się. Na...

Dzisiaj będzie o dość nerdowej rzeczy: programach do pisania. Ostrzegam;) Ostatnio zacząłem szukać perfekcyjnego programu do pisania. Dlaczego?Otóż w ostatnich miesiącach zacząłem coraz więcej pisać. Piszę po angielsku i po polsku w rożnych miejscach na bardzo różne tematy. Właśnie przez coraz częstszą praktykę zacząłem doceniać przestrzeń w której piszę. Nie mówię tylko o fizyczne otoczenie (biblioteka, kawiarnia, domowy taras wygrywają), ale też o narzędziu pracy. Mimo tego, że często “szkic...

Tak sobie myślę o platformach – takich wielkich wysięgnikach, na których wydają się stać niektórzy ludzie. Wszyscy znamy takie osoby. Tak sobie stoją i patrzą na lud poniżej. Może się uśmiechają, może coś mówią. Czasami trudno usłyszeć. Nie widzimy do końca ich twarzy, tylko jakiś zarys. Ponieważ są wysoko, na platformie, to wszyscy się na nich patrzą, komentują, krytykują. Prawdę mówiąc, większość z tych komentarzy nie dociera tam do nich na górę, trzeba krzyknąć. Czasami jest tak głośno, ż...

W niedzielę będę przygotowywał takie podsumowania tego bloga, oraz tego, co czytam, słucham i oglądam.Jedno najważniejsze zdanie z każdego postu:Poniedziałek – Czy w ogóle musi się złamać?Wtorek – Z pracą jest trochę tak jak z biegiem.Środa – Czy mógłbym w jakiś wizualny sposób holistycznie przedstawić podstawy mojej rzeczywistości?Czwartek – Pasja daje siłę, daje motywację, moc sprawczą.Piątek – I co najlepsze, to wcale nie jest proste.Sobota – Zamiast dyskusji, burz mózgów i prezentacji, mamy ...

Dzielenie się wiedzą jest fundamentalnie ważnym i dobrym uczynkiem. Niestety, nasz system edukacji raczej nie skłania uczniów do tego. To, co wspieramy, to niezdrowa konkurencja i ciągłe porównywanie dla samego porównywania a nie rozwoju. Większość zadań jest stworzona do pracy indywidualnej, przy okazji zniechęcając do dzielenia się nią. Zamiast dyskusji, burz mózgów i prezentacji, mamy pojedyncze odpytywanki, pojedyncze testy i pojedyncze oceny. W ten sposób nigdy nie zbudujemy mądrego i wspie...

Sztuka medytacji - coś, co na pierwszy rzut oka wygląda dziecinne prosto, bezużytecznie nudno. Wartość jaką niesie w sobie medytacja jest niepoliczalna. I co najlepsze, to wcale nie jest proste. ...

Pasja daje siłę, daje motywację, moc sprawczą. Gdyby wszyscy ludzie pracowali nad swoimi pasjami, a nie nad tym, co muszą robić, to świat byłby piękniejszym miejscem. Rozwój pasji oznacza rozwój ludzkości. ...

Jakiś czas temu słuchałem sobie jakiegoś podcastu – nie pamiętam, który to był. W tym właśnie podcaście prowadzący rozmawiał ze swoim gościem na temat map, a tak właściwie tego, jak pojęcie map zawitało w strukturyzacji informacji.Do niedawna mapa była używana tylko jako narzędzie nawigacji w przestrzeni fizycznej, nie jako “mapa myśli” czy “mapa produktu”. Mapa twojego życiaJak sobie ich tak słuchałem, to przyszła mi do głowy pewna myśl; czy mógłbym zrobić mapę swojego życia? Czy mógłbym w ja...

Z pracą jest trochę tak jak z biegiem. Im więcej będziesz sprintował, tym szybciej się zmęczysz. Sprint powinien być zaplanowany, przemyślany i przede wszystkim chwilowy. Niestety w coraz większej ilości kultur, praca “sprintowa” zaczyna stawać się niekwestionowaną normalnością. Wypalenie to problem dość nowy, w poprzednich stuleciach praca głównie opierała się na powtarzalnych zadaniach, co powodowało może zmęczenie fizyczne oraz ewentualnie znudzenie, a na pewno nie wypalenie. Dlatego też nie ...

Co musi się stać, aby człowiek się złamał i nastąpiła zmiana? Czy w ogóle musi się złamać? Czy to zawsze musi być nagłe, drastyczne? ...

W niedzielę będę przygotowywał takie podsumowania tego bloga, oraz tego, co czytam, słucham i oglądam.Jedno najważniejsze zdanie z każdego postu: Poniedziałek – Oddech może mieć siłę o jakiej nie mamy zielonego pojęcia. Wtorek – Nie oceniając powodujesz, że inny człowiek nie zna swoich mocnych stron.Środa – Zrób mniej, ale dobrze.Czwartek – Właściwe czyli dobre.Piątek – A uzależnić od zmiany?Sobota – Nie chcę nikogo zmuszać do refleksji i planowania, ale przynajmniej prosiłbym nasze społec...

Pomysł “wpisania” całego swojego życia do jakiegoś systemu, aplikacji, zeszytu wydaje się dla wielu dziwny. Bo tak jest. W naszym społeczeństwie uznajemy za dziwne; refleksję, planowanie, organizację. Piszesz dziennik? Serio? Co z tobą jest nie tak? Masz jakieś problemy psychiczne?Serio, nie raz się spotkałem z tą odpowiedzią. Ale po co ty planujesz co chcesz robić!? To jest chore!Tak też słyszałem. Nie chcę nikogo zmuszać do refleksji i planowania, ale przynajmniej prosiłbym nasze społeczeńs...

Aby pozbyć się jakiegoś uzależnienia, należy się zmienić. A uzależnić od zmiany? ...

Wczoraj napisałem o produktywności. Dzisiaj chciałbym kontynuować ten temat i porozmawiać o właściwych sprawach. Jak pracować nad tym, co jest dla nas właściwe? Co to w ogóle znaczy właściwe? Jak możemy być tego pewni? Właściwe czyli dobre. ...

Jednym z największych błędów w myśleniu/mówieniu o produktywności jest multitasking. To jest jeden z najgłupszych pomysłów o jakich słyszałem. Zrób mniej, ale dobrze. Nasz mózg nie jest w stanie dzielić bezstratnie swojej uwagi, zawsze któraś czynność traci. Powinniśmy za to mówić o Singletaskingu – idei optymalizacji pracy przez maksymalne skupienie nad jedną czynnością. Łączy to się z metodologią Deep Work (Głęboka Praca). Produktywność nie jest robieniem większej ilości rzeczy, tylko właśc...

Oceniając sprowadzasz człowieka do kilku prostych słów albo numerków. Nie oceniając powodujesz to, że inny człowiek nie zna swoich mocnych stron. ...

Mimo tego, że oddychanie wydaje się taką podstawową czynnością, to nauka prawdziwego oddechu nie jest prosta. Oddech może mieć siłę o jakiej nie mamy zielonego pojęcia. Potrafi uspokoić, naładować energią, rozbudzić. Uczę się od jakiegoś czasu sztuki oddechu, jak na razie muszę przyznać, że jest to bardzo przydatna ale zarazem trudna do zrozumienia i opanowania umiejętność. ...

W niedzielę będę przygotowywał takie podsumowania tego bloga, oraz tego, co czytam, słucham i oglądam.Jedno najważniejsze zdanie z każdego postu: Poniedziałek – Potrafimy często więcej czasu spędzić na hipotetyzowaniu i kwestionowaniu swoich pomysłów niż na rzeczywistym implementowaniu ich.Wtorek – Mimo tego, że spokojnie mógłbym wstawać pół godziny później, to wolę mieć więcej czasu na zjedzenie śniadania, wypicie herbaty/kawy, przejrzenia listy zadań na dzisiaj oraz podziwiania widoków z moje...

Z jednej strony jest to oczywiste, a z drugiej strony wydaje mi się, że zdecydowanie zbyt często zapominamy o tej prawdzie. Może tak się dzieje dlatego, że jesteśmy wzrokowcami – to, co widzimy w danym momencie kontroluje nasze myśli i emocje. Największym i najczęściej popełnianym błędem jest nasilanie objawów deszczu w samym sobie. Pada jeden, dwa lata z rzędu, to przecież nie może być inaczej? Nawet jeśli kiedyś świeciło słońce, to w jakiś magiczny sposób jesteśmy w stanie o tym kompletnie za...

Otwórz oczy, świat jest. ...

Na wiele osób deszczowa pogoda wpływa negatywnie – spada energia. Ze mną też tak jest, choć wydaje mi się, że mniej niż bardziej. Ja takie dni staram się traktować inaczej – zamiast narzekać na złą pogodę i tłumaczyć swoją niemożliwość działania właśnie deszczem, chmurami czy jakimkolwiek innym warunkiem pogodowym, traktuję takie dni jako wyzwania. Wyzwanie jest proste – bądź tak samo produktywny, kreatywny, “żywy” w dni gorsze pogodowo, jak w dni lepsze. Nie jest to proste zadanie, ale niesamo...

Trudno jest skonfrontować się z czymś, czego się boimy.Aby przestać się czegoś bać, należy się z tym skonfrontować. ...

Choć nigdy ich nie lubiłem. Przez wiele lat poranki wydawały się czymś strasznym, wymuszonym. Tak naprawdę mój dzień zaczynał się dopiero ok. 11, ponieważ wtedy byłem dopiero “przytomny”. Z drugiej strony muszę też przyznać, że nigdy nie lubiłem wstawać późno – maks. o dziewiątej. Dopiero po przeprowadzce dalej od miasta, która wymusiła na mnie wstawanie ok. 5, zacząłem lubić poranki. Tak, wstawanie o piątej nie jest proste, dalej z tym miewam problemy. Jednak dzięki temu uświadomiłem sobie jak ...

Najważniejszym dla mnie odkryciem ostatnich kilku miesięcy jest natychmiastowa implementacja pomysłu. Jedną z najgorszych cech ludzkości jest zbytnie myślenie. Potrafimy często więcej czasu spędzić na hipotetyzowaniu i kwestionowaniu swoich pomysłów niż na rzeczywistym implementowaniu ich. Od dwóch lat chciałem nakręcić podcast. W pewną piękną niedzielę postanowiłem, że nie mogę już dłużej czekać. Poszedłem na spacer, wymyśliłem nazwę, tematykę, częstotliwość podcastu oraz temat pierwszego odcin...

Codziennie staram się spacerować. Ważne jest dla mnie znaleźć codziennie czas i miejsce na myślenie, a spacery są najlepsze właśnie do wolnego myślenia. Ważnym i lubianym przeze mnie jest ten codzienny, półgodzinny czas, w którym nic mnie nie rozprasza. Specyfiką mojego obecnego miejsca zamieszkania jest spokój i względna izolacja. Mam możliwość bycia w spokoju i spacerowania wśród natury, przez pola. Takie spacery dają mi ogromne poczucie wolności i, co najważniejsze, zawsze wracam z nich z gło...