How Can We Better Grow in 2021
I believe everyone should have some sort of blog or a diary, a space where you write your thoughts. Fill up the blank with what you think and it soon becomes a compass. Your writing may be half-conscious, not very critically examined, and it may get dark at times or even life-affirming towards the end, it doesn’t matter. It is a mirror that reflects who you are and what you believe and from time to time, you get to refine your thoughts and look back at stuff like My Thoughts on Cryptocurrency.
Writing helps you grow by allowing you to see yourself clearly from a third-person perspective.
The problem is most of us tend to drift away from writing, because we don’t feel like we’re in the mood to do so. There will be days when the chemicals in our brain are particularly aligned and we wake up with optimism and possibility. On the flip side, I believe it is fair to assert that there will be days when we wake up on the wrong side of bed. We simply feel off. However, it is not difficult to imagine that we can do things to improve our mood. It can be our favourite snack, a piece of music or people we hang out with.
We can improve our mood by choice and actually get better at it.
It seems unromantic to say this, but I believe there is a technique to improve our mood. Initially, we show up, do our best and make things happen. As time lapses on, we discover that powering our way through the day or weeks even becomes a little too challenging. Much like every other learning curve that we face, we begin to question if there is a better way to do things. We turn to specific methods. We turn to technique.
Technique is the unnatural approach to a problem that, with practice, becomes second-nature.
There are practical reasons as to why we sort our things in a neater fashion as compared to clumping them all together. One of them points at saving time. If we take a minute or two to sort out the forks, knives and spoons all at once, there is no need to spend five seconds every single time we want to find a fork or our keys on our table. Given that we’re arguably experts at wasting time, it isn’t difficult to waste another five seconds of our life. But, it is the switching of mode that ticks us off. We go from “I want to eat ice cream” to “Why is the chopstick in front of the spoon when it is clearly taller than the spoon?” Mode switching breaks our rhythm and disrupts our flow. Most of us don’t write, not because we don’t have anything to write, not because we don’t have the time to do so, not because we are not in the mood or have no technique in getting ourselves in the groove. The truth is most of us don’t write, because we aren’t brave enough to start.
