Re Human Day 50

Re-inventing ourselves has always been the most important skill. I’m re-inventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time. This post is part of my Re Human project.

Daily Habits

Books: Today I finished Creativity: the psychology of discovery and invention. Highly recommended. Then I started Non-Violent Communication. Some notes from today:

Creativity depends on making connections between fields, but language obfuscation / cognitive distance increases because of domain jargon.

A creative insight happens in the convergence between an instability in a domain and a mind of a person who is able to cope with the problem.

Everyone has the potential to live a creative life. But there are four main obstacles:

Too many demands, Easily distracted, Laziness, Not knowing what to do with our energies

Incredible meta skill: ability to turn any activity into a flow activity.

The purpose of NVC is to help us connect with ourselves and others in a way that makes compassionate living natural.

What is Alive in you?

Be very mindful of the world after “I feel”. Is it really a feeling? For example I feel Amy is stupid is not a feeling. I feel inadequate is also not a feeling. I feel ignored is not a feeling.

Meditation: 21 minutes in the morning and 21 minutes in the afternoon.

Re Human Extended Activity: Mondays is VR Artist & Architect.

Last week as I was working on my startup and looking at AWS (amazon web services) stuff, I saw that they had a VR/AR platform they call Sumerian. I made a note to check it out, so I checked it out today.

Interface is cool but didn’t see lots of ways to integrate it with code.

Then I spent some time in my existing library — mostly removed stuff.

Writing: This post, code, and a daily thought.

Digital Drawing & Painting:

Today I started drawing a tree:

Fitness: warmup, handstands, abs, and human flag practice.

Piano: Today I kept practicing the first part of La La Land’s Sebastian and Mia’s theme.

Soccer trick juggling: Today I didn’t get two around the worlds in a row but enjoyed the activity a lot.

Random Surprise

An idea worth thinking about:

“Having good judgement is becoming more important than having higher intelligence in this information — abundant world. You should know when and how to defer your opinions to other more knowledgeable people in specific areas.” from Tyler Cowen in The Knowledge Project podcast.

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