I often like to visit Tim Ferris’ website for interesting blog posts to read. I noticed a new one called “The Master and the Fool”. Just the title was so intriguing! “The Master and the Fool” is actually the title of the epilogue of the book “Mastery” by George Leonard, which Ferris obtained permission from the publishing house to post on his website. The story is about an experience the author had with a mountain man from the Los Padres National Wilderness Area. The mountain man wanted to know “how [he could] be a learner”. To which the author responded: “It’s simple. To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool.” “Mastery” by George Leonard When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I remember being in the car with my parents and older brothers. I was asking my dad a lot of questions, and

This past weekend I watched the movie “Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle”. I was pleasantly surprised by how funny and entertaining it was. The movie is about a group of four high school kids that find an old video game console and get sucked inside the game. In order to be able to return to the real world, they need to beat it. The problem is that just like in a video game, they have 3 lives, and if they lose them all, it is game over. When the kids make it to the last level, they all only have 1 life left. Therefore, staying alive is imperative now more than ever. To end the game, Spencer needs to place a stone in a statue, but first, he must get around a pack of vicious jaguars. Spencer becomes terrified and tells his friend Fridge that he is not brave enough

How wrong have I been! I’ve been searching for fulfillment in all the wrong places! I came across a quote today which hit me like a ton of bricks: “May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: Do not save time, but lose it.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Emile, or On Education This quote is from the Emile, or On Education written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762. It would later serve as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education in France. Emile, or On Education “provides the philosophical groundwork for a radical critique of the contemporary cultural framework that supports homework, standardized testing, and the competitive extracurricular activities that consume children’s time” (Wiley Online Library). For years I’ve been trying to figure out how to “save time”. I follow YouTube channels and read books

Just yesterday I was writing in my journal about how I have been feeling like there is something that I want, and I keep searching for it, but I don’t even know what I’m even looking for. I watch Youtube videos about productivity and finance, I listen to podcasts and audiobooks, I read blog posts and magazines. I do this every day, on top of work and study. I feel like I always need to be doing something or learning something, or else I’m wasting time and I feel guilty. I know that this is an unhealthy feeling. That I’m suffering from information overload. I know that there is no secret hidden in a podcast episode that will instantly make me rich or successful. I love learning new things, it makes me happy, so I will never stop doing that. However, I do recognize that I need balance in my

If you haven’t yet seen the TV show called Ted Lasso, add it to your to-do list! The show is not only super funny, but it will also have you crying as it features it all, from love and heartbreak to revenge and deceit. It is about an amateur American football coach named Ted Lasso. He is hired to coach AFC Richmond, a professional soccer team in the English premier league. Ted Lasso knows absolutely nothing about soccer, and he sucks at coaching the team. However, there is something about him that as a viewer it is impossible to not root for him. Ted concentrates his efforts on uniting the soccer players as a team. He focusing on their personal development, and on their state of mind. In one scene, one of the players makes a mistake that results in a goal for the other team. He beats himself up

For Christmas I ordered myself a new iPad. One of the reasons I bought it was because I wanted to use it to draw with it. As a kid, I loved to draw. When I was about 12 years old, I used to say I wanted to be a cartoonist. I like to think that I was talented at drawing. As I got older and busier with life, I stopped drawing. Not even working in an Architecture firm, do I get to draw. We use software that draws everything for us. And although the software makes work 10x times easier, no one would ever stop and admire a printed drawing with the eyes that one admires an old drawing done in paper with a pencil by one of my bosses before computers ever existed. When I did my research, most websites said that the app Procreate was the best for

This website used to be called “WhoopWellness.com”. I had started it about 3 years ago. At that time, I was vegan, and so the website was about educating people on the vegan diet. I spent a lot of money and time on it. However, I was never able to grow the number of readers as much as I would have liked to. I stopped being vegan and become a vegetarian, and so I also stopped putting in as much effort into the website. In the back of my mind, I knew I had to let my website go because I no longer believed or practiced what I was posting. But when you have put so much work into something, it is not that easy. Lately, I had been watching Ali Abdaal’s Youtube channel, which is all about learning how to study and how to be more productive. I came across