Ongoing Journey - August 2024
Getting a haircut
first time seen bread like this :0
The month the thing that yield most productivity was getting a haircut. SF is getting hot near end of July, and not having sweat stain on the back of the head felt nice.
When I was in pre-school the sentiments teacher taught was ‘一屋不扫，何以扫天下’ to encourage us to tighten our personal space regularly. I found enviorment I am in less effecting compare to things closer to me, e.g. how well I slept, what I am wearing (how I am feeling towards myself), haircuts, etc
I also realize I do many things to save time & enjoy planning out my day, I wonder if I am trying to define the enviorment I am in?
Very happy that I got my hair cut though, I had a thought of going bold next but stopped hahah.
Trip to Vancouver
4 hour hike and it was worth the view :)
The other productive(?) thing, or at least sparked productivity was taking a trip to Vancouver.
At SF I got pretty used to the old routine -> felt quite unmotivated. I also think the many rejection emails that comes my way did drop my confidence / affected performance.
So been in a new place stimulated my brain once more. I went on a hike, city walked, and read once again after a very, very long time.
Going back to the previous topic I felt like there is the enviorment (the country / city you are in), and a sub enviorment (your local activity zone), and yourself. Getting a haircut was directly a change on myself, and going to vancouver was the enviorment itself, the greater the change the bigger the sti mulates? I am still thinking about the hireachies (if there is still any).
The price of everything in Canada is so cheap btw, Tilly went on a shopping sphree at th ewarehouse, I was amazed.
Friends helps me to stay motivated, part II
Tilly's birthday had 20+ attendees, I've never seen so many in my life, image unrelated
One of the podcast I lisented on the trip dived into the idea of ‘free time’, TLDR 2-5 hours of free time per day is nice, for other times one should work on something that has a goal / fulfilling.
Thinking that’s partly why job hunting (especially after college) tend to be difficult / consuming, for one you would have much more than 5 hours so feeling unproductive, for the other the result isn’t linear (there is no visible goals) so feeling unmotivated
It’s very difficult to jump directly out of the cycle (since it’s a larger abstract enviroment we are in), but one thing I start to appreciate it’s the geniue support from close friends.
Recall 2019 going to college mom & dad always say ‘make friendos’, when things are going downhills for you and there are still people you can reachout to (even craizer, reaches out to you), unswayed by your statues, and listens to whatever you have to say, I found this to be very securing :)
I just realized last month I wrote exactly the same thing, intersting hahah.