💭Life-Tempering

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💭Life-Tempering

On the Sleeping Death

I find it strange we emulate the dead when we go to sleep. We assume sleeping positions, close off some final thoughts, and next thing you know, rest is allowing the body to stand still. For now, our coffins are comfortable pillows, and our mattresses are the foundation for our

💭Internal Society

The Happiness Growth Plateau

Money X Happiness as axes, addressing conflict and opportunity, the influence of civilizational fabric on the self, and how to achieve infinite happiness

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Letter to my Future Self

My Dear Friend, How are you doing? Have you been dancing? Have you been embodying your WIldfire? I am aware, even now, that despite the treasures the world has to offer, you may arrive at them alone. They may call you mad for chasing after intangibles, the lost muses, the

👁Memory Featured

The Fear of Forgetting

To have a life without growing memory is to not be born. We abandon the years when we have grown. In turn we leave our past selves behind. My Dear Friend, I am afraid of forgetting my life. If yesterday was lost, forgotten, and the world had moved, friends have

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The Meaning of Tempered

You may have seen this word thrown around here: Tempered. It's in my notes, it's in my podcast. It's everywhere, and holds a special place in my heart. A quick google search results in the following: 1.1) Improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating

💭Internal Society

You have my permission

I've written a permission slip to prevent hesitation. I'm willing to share your burden with you. Maybe you're stuck like I am. You're about to make a decision that will change your life. Maybe you need permission. You might need Life to hold your hand, or even better, a Dear

💭Life-Tempering Featured

Celebrating Birthdays and Existdays

Earlier this month (6th) was my 28th birthday. Yay! Well, that's the celebration. All good now. Putting the standard celebration aside, according to what the world is advertising to me, my birthday is an important day to me. How am I celebrating it? Well, it's this post! I'm not doing

💭Time

Cultural Immortality

The Concept Definition (Explicit) So far, there is no explicit definition. This is a neologism. As of published date, have not made any effort to find already-existing terms out there. Definition (Tacit) Neologism: This is to determine the relationship between an individual and society in general, asking a simple question:

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Why (Question)

This feels like the final question to answer once everything is done. Better yet, even before I start something: * Why at all? * Why do anything? * Why must we continue? * Why must we end things? I'll leave it open. Maybe years later, I can flesh this post out. For now, here

🦪Pieces Featured

Dear Mr. 30: A letter to my future self.

This is a letter for myself at 30 years old. I write letters to myself as self reminders. The semantics help with reframing my outlook on life. Sometimes referring to myself via 3rd person helps, and otherwise introducing a new character can work too. This letter is a call for

🎙This is Norm

1000 Follower Special: Crazy vs Insane, Podcast Prep, Brave Note-Taking, and PKM Philosophy

Listen Here Shownotes I reached 1k followers! Let’s do something fun: ask me a question on any topic and by Tuesday I’ll answer as many of them in one go on a podcast episode! Let’s see how many I can get through and post it up 😅 pic.

🎙This is Norm

3-5-10 Year Reflections

Listen Here Shownotes 3 years, 5 years, 10 years make a list of how you have changed the most comparing to these intervals — Critter 0 (@BecomingCritter) April 12, 2021 Through @BecomingCritter's tweet, I explored more on how I've changed the most compared to years ago: * 2011 (10 years ago) * 2016

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🦪Pieces

The Waltz of Death （死のワルツ）

✍Ore

I still love you

Deriving from the following tweet: [[I still love you]] https://t.co/3dSBPKcJsi — Brian Toh : 6/20 scuffed videos (@btohtoh) October 22, 2020 The phrase "I still love you" can be used to express warmth regardless of background. Not out of willingness to be in a relationship or similar, but

🎙This is Norm

My 12 Problems (Richard Feynman)

Listen to the Podcast Version: Inspired by: 1/ #roamcult Who is doing Feynman's 12 Favorite Questions? Let's do it collectively! This will be a key starting point for Fabricating Serendipity v3. If you already have access, I invite you to add yours: https://t.co/iHh4Epgb0m If not yet: https:

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Why throw out the clown?

In a class of 30 kids from both Year 5 and 6 in British School, Ms. Palmer brought up the final game at the end of Friday afternoon. We had 10 minutes left until I get to go play games at home. We had these sessions at the end of

🎙Tempered Fables

The Story behind N.T. Cloever: The Narrator of Tempered Fables

In case you may not know, my initials are N.T.C. During the day, I like to read about different industries and fields: tech, finance, travel, languages, culture. Side note, I lvoe to talk about polymaths. That's my thing. These are mainly for curiosity's sake, to understand various real-world

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Why being poor is a good lesson for all of us

I envy dumpster divers, especially freegans. For those of you who don’t know, freegans collect their food and nourishment from discarded food (think of restaurants who have to throw all that lovely food at the end of each day). Essentially, they can live their lives from other people’s

✉️Letters

How to live Now: A Self Letter

Moments are born and moments die. Elif Shafak, Forty Rules of Love This is a letter to myself, a reminder of how to live now. If it helps anyone out there, I’d be happy. The Letter Dear You, You’re going to fail. You’re going to need help.

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How we see good is how we see ourselves

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.  Charles R. Swindoll How do we learn to filter out the bad? For a majority of the time, we can’t help but react to bad news from around the world. Shootings, bombings and the like:

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The difference between good mentors and bad ones

There are more fake gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe. Don’t confuse power-driven, self-centered people with true mentors. A genuine spiritual master will not direct your attention to himself or herself and will not expect absolute obedience or utter

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Life needs to be hard before it gets better. This is why

As a Sufi, I had been trained to accept the thorn with the rose, the difficulties with the beauties of life. Hence followed another rule: The midwife knows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby cannot be opened and the mother cannot give birth. Likewise, for

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How to face fears, doubts and control the moment

Ella and her dog stood side by side under the late-spring moon, staring into the thick, vast darkness, similarly frightened of the things moving in the dark, frightened of the unknown. Elif Sharak, The Forty Rules of Love The unknown is a scary place. It’s ominous: you don’t

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The People Around You Define your Creativity: Midnight In Paris by Woody Allen

Creativity differs according to each individual. Either way, how we express ourselves can be scary at times. No matter how creative we can get, there will always be jabs at us. Some people find this overwhelming, and choose to conform their creativity to acceptable levels. Others go the opposite direction:

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Is Self Expression taught in education? Let's find out

The concept of expression is a strange one. It differs with each individual. We are free to do whatever we want. Write what we want, dance, play: live a life however we want. While some may be able to express themselves better through painting, others express themselves better on the