So, today's topic followed spending the day without using the word "I".
If I think about it now, I did actually notice the times I chose not to say "I". It was pretty painful not caring for myself exclusively for once, but was a fun practice overall!
I started by helping my parents around the house with cleaning, making the food and hanging the clothes out in the wind to dry. Pretty casual stuff, but the day was just getting started.
I took a bunch of leftover food that we hadn't touched and gave it to some homeless people on the street. I like to keep things tidy between me and them, considering they do not have a steady income.
While talking to my friends, trying to execute proper sentences without using "I" is way more difficult than one could imagine, especially when giving your own opinion in the matter at hand. This exercised my patience a little bit, and I could use a bit more of that. It taught me how to more skillfully question people.
What I had learned, at the end of the day, was to listen more. We go through life so hastily, we don't stop to see the good things in life. This exercise taught me to take anxiety off of myself by forgetting about myself.
Like I said, this exercise taught me how to question people better.
In the next exercise, I will be writing down 100 questions that are very important.
Thanks for reading!
Sunday 27 May 2018
Sunday 20 May 2018
6. Read a biography of somebody you don't admire and show genuine interest
In my previous exercise, I learned to show interest in a specific topic.
I will be mixing that with my next endeavour- reading the biography of someone I do not admire and to be empathetic toward that person:
being the biologist, Charles Darwin.
Now, don't get me wrong. Just because I don't admire him doesn't mean I don't respect him or honour him, just to be clear. Prejudice doesn't play part here.
Regarding his personal life, his father was a renowned botanist, but research suggests that he had personal struggles with his father in both his early and later life, which led him to rebel against his father's Creationist worldview, and follow the course of proving his father wrong. This includes when his father shrewdly sent his son to study to be a parson, which followed his father's disapproval of his passion in naturalistic studies. Later in life, near the end of his father's life, he had difficulties in his relationship with his father.
In his famous Voyage of the Beagle, the boat he used to sail across the globe, sailed around the coastlines of the southern parts of South America, included the most southern part of Africa, Cape Town, visited Mauritius and ended his journey on the southern coastlines of Australia, which is said to have consisted of his greatest discoveries in his theory for evolution.
He died in his family home on April 19, 1882. His work is still cited today by many evolutionists and biologists as the foundation of the naturalistic mindset.
This was an interesting research trip. Darwin had lived a fascinating life in many different facets of study, and has done incredible research on various topics. I do admire him for his headstrong attitude and his attributes of loyalty to study.
The lesson that I have learned is to care about people more.
The next stop will be: spend a day without using the word "I".
So goodnight, and good luck.
Some sources:
https://www.biography.com/people/charles-darwin-9266433
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
I will be mixing that with my next endeavour- reading the biography of someone I do not admire and to be empathetic toward that person:
being the biologist, Charles Darwin.
Now, don't get me wrong. Just because I don't admire him doesn't mean I don't respect him or honour him, just to be clear. Prejudice doesn't play part here.
Now, Darwin
was born Charles Robert Darwin on February 12th, 1809 in Shrewsbury,
England. He studied in the sciences, specifically as a naturalist and
biologist, and is famously well- known for developing the theory of evolution,
and is especially acknowledged in the scientific, biological and philosophical
communities. Before publishing his book, On the Origin of Species, he voyaged
across the globe in his studies on species, their progression and to further
his research to formulate theories.
He
specialised in the theory of natural selection, which stated that survival is
deemed to the fittest of animals in the natural world, and that the weaker ones
had died off. In
his studies, he noticed similarities among species across the world, caused by
adaptation and natural selection and based on these observations, developed his
theories.
Regarding his personal life, his father was a renowned botanist, but research suggests that he had personal struggles with his father in both his early and later life, which led him to rebel against his father's Creationist worldview, and follow the course of proving his father wrong. This includes when his father shrewdly sent his son to study to be a parson, which followed his father's disapproval of his passion in naturalistic studies. Later in life, near the end of his father's life, he had difficulties in his relationship with his father.
In his famous Voyage of the Beagle, the boat he used to sail across the globe, sailed around the coastlines of the southern parts of South America, included the most southern part of Africa, Cape Town, visited Mauritius and ended his journey on the southern coastlines of Australia, which is said to have consisted of his greatest discoveries in his theory for evolution.
He died in his family home on April 19, 1882. His work is still cited today by many evolutionists and biologists as the foundation of the naturalistic mindset.
This was an interesting research trip. Darwin had lived a fascinating life in many different facets of study, and has done incredible research on various topics. I do admire him for his headstrong attitude and his attributes of loyalty to study.
The lesson that I have learned is to care about people more.
The next stop will be: spend a day without using the word "I".
So goodnight, and good luck.
Some sources:
https://www.biography.com/people/charles-darwin-9266433
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
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Saturday 12 May 2018
5. Try out a new hobby while sitting down
Today I will be trying out a new hobby while sitting down, as the task from
the previous entry that I extracted was to sit down, as I interviewed my father.
Now, we all know Google Maps was a massive invention in the modern age, and that
it helped us on many days as we got lost while searching for a particular place in
the city or elsewhere, but today I will be doing something a little bit different.
A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon Google Maps again just to explore different
parts of the world and to really get reconnected with where everything sits on the earth.
Some places I just wanted to know where it was, and even discovered some new places
I haven't heard of before.
Today, I will be researching some of the big landmarks in Italy, and will just be doing
some random exploration, since travel tickets are so expensive. And so our journey begins.
The first thing I discovered while zooming into Italy, was the main island of Venice. Now, what I saw was quite surprising: there were more than 22 Catholic churches on just the middle islands of Venice. This could be that Catholicism is the most famous religion in Italian borders. I shouldn't be shocked, but it is quite extraordinary.
The second place that I visited, was the Pantheon. In its time, the Pantheon was a temple built to house the free worship of all gods in Rome, and it is fronted with many pillars and consists of a dome with an open roof on the inside.
I also visited the Colosseum, which, in 72 AD, seated over 50 000 spectators, and was used to showcase brutal gladiator battles and chariot races.
Right next to the Colosseum, stands the Arch of Constantine, a marble layered arch which commemerates the victory of Constantine I at Milvian Bridge in 312. It consists of three arches, of which the middle one is the largest, and the entire arch stands 21 meters high. Romans just always had to build the most impressive things, didn't they?
Next stop was Milan Cathedral, which was quite a spectacle in the first person viewing mode, and just explains to me the true magnitude of the building. Seated in the city of Milan's city square, the Milan Cathedral is the second largest Catholic church in the world. It took a staggering 50 years to complete, and is also regarded as one of the most beautiful churches in the world.
This was quite an epic journey for me as a history junkie. So much time and energy was spent in creating all of these magnificent buildings, and what a stunning collection of landmarks they are. I sure would've liked to have lived in Italy at some point, but this is a fun little substitute, for now at least.
The lesson I've learned in this exercise was to show interest. In the next one, I will be showing interest by reading a biography of somebody I don't admire.
Until next time!
Some sources:
http://traveluto.com/famous-landmarks-in-italy/
http://google.com/maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Constantine
the previous entry that I extracted was to sit down, as I interviewed my father.
Now, we all know Google Maps was a massive invention in the modern age, and that
it helped us on many days as we got lost while searching for a particular place in
the city or elsewhere, but today I will be doing something a little bit different.
A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon Google Maps again just to explore different
parts of the world and to really get reconnected with where everything sits on the earth.
Some places I just wanted to know where it was, and even discovered some new places
I haven't heard of before.
Today, I will be researching some of the big landmarks in Italy, and will just be doing
some random exploration, since travel tickets are so expensive. And so our journey begins.
The first thing I discovered while zooming into Italy, was the main island of Venice. Now, what I saw was quite surprising: there were more than 22 Catholic churches on just the middle islands of Venice. This could be that Catholicism is the most famous religion in Italian borders. I shouldn't be shocked, but it is quite extraordinary.
The second place that I visited, was the Pantheon. In its time, the Pantheon was a temple built to house the free worship of all gods in Rome, and it is fronted with many pillars and consists of a dome with an open roof on the inside.
I also visited the Colosseum, which, in 72 AD, seated over 50 000 spectators, and was used to showcase brutal gladiator battles and chariot races.
Right next to the Colosseum, stands the Arch of Constantine, a marble layered arch which commemerates the victory of Constantine I at Milvian Bridge in 312. It consists of three arches, of which the middle one is the largest, and the entire arch stands 21 meters high. Romans just always had to build the most impressive things, didn't they?
Next stop was Milan Cathedral, which was quite a spectacle in the first person viewing mode, and just explains to me the true magnitude of the building. Seated in the city of Milan's city square, the Milan Cathedral is the second largest Catholic church in the world. It took a staggering 50 years to complete, and is also regarded as one of the most beautiful churches in the world.
This was quite an epic journey for me as a history junkie. So much time and energy was spent in creating all of these magnificent buildings, and what a stunning collection of landmarks they are. I sure would've liked to have lived in Italy at some point, but this is a fun little substitute, for now at least.
The lesson I've learned in this exercise was to show interest. In the next one, I will be showing interest by reading a biography of somebody I don't admire.
Until next time!
Some sources:
http://traveluto.com/famous-landmarks-in-italy/
http://google.com/maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Constantine
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