Upward Spiral

I am, and I have always been a scatterbrain to some extent. To cope with my disorderliness, over the course of my life, I have adopted three mindsets that worked for me:  a) Hyper-focusing on a task I found the most interesting at any particular moment,  b) Being lost in thought - a coping mechanism to clear my mind and relax,  c) Mechanically chipping in on the task that is intrinsically boring but unconditionally has to be done to avoid some of the unpleasant consequences stemming from me not having pleased some of the people I've had a social obligation to please (e.g. some pointless uni assignments that offer no added value whatsoever).  I would spend as much time as possible in the first mindset, resulting in me neglecting any goals that could be achieved by using the third mindset.   It's not hard to deduce that while this sort of lifestyle is not as bad when you are aware of your limitations and want to get by with as little ...

   I've probably already given a good introduction to this weekly book review thingy, so without further do I give you: The Productivity Project - I'll try to keep it brief so that I can mention at least one golden nugget I dug out while reading the book, that shaped up my thinking in ways I totally didn't expect when I dove into it some days ago. It was a new experience for me but I guess that's what is supposed to happen with every decent non-fiction book otherwise you either didn't chose a book that matches your interests/hobbies well or your reading comprehension is not as good as you might think. Genre:  Self-improvement/ Self-help Aesthetics   Even though it's less than 300 pages long. The book itself is rather large and thick due to a material used by a manufacturer. It's not really a drawback because you get to read it in a larger font with more appropriate spacing that makes it really easy to follow its formal structure, ho...

Yes, it's exactly as the title suggests. I've decided to do these weekly because of three reasons: 1.  Ever since I started my personal - self-improvement focused - project, I've decided to read one book a week minimum. There are dozens of, I presume, helpful non-fiction books catching dust on my bookshelves. There was a very good reason for me buying those books but I was just too lazy to give them a go which I'm not particularly happy about. Now I have decided to put an end to it. There are about 30 books I want to dive into and successfully finish due end of 2018 and If you do the math it's crystal clear how many books a week I need to read to accomplish my rather ambitious goal.   Never mind the preface, I'll get to the actual point. Reading books is only worth your time and energy when you take away something from the book you read (I have serious trouble recalling the contents of a book once I am done reading it). Otherwise, you are just p...

 When most people start their life-changing, enlightening, inspirational journey, they usually start on day 1  – some of them even on day 0 which they can use as a pretext to enjoy all the worldly and heavenly pleasures before they embark on (supposedly) long-lived yet excruciating journey in a guilt-fuelled attempt to make something out of themselves.   To no surprise, most of them fail as they try to keep up with various short-to-medium term goals they set up for themselves. Goals that are a mere echo of the value structure they created over the course of their lives. To create reasonable goals, they need to change their inner workings first - which is unsurprisingly difficult task and one of the reasons, why I decided to write my first post on day 17 of my self-improvement adventure At first you need to make sure that ship is fully functional and headed in the right direction before you write into the log-book (in my case nevermind finding the right direct...