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Working through Chaotic Surprise

Lifestyle, Peace By Sep 20, 2024 No Comments

Chaotic surprise. The sudden realisation that what you assumed to know is not “known” to you in the sense that you had believed. It comes with a sense of “feeling lost” coupled with the anxiety of solving for the unknown. We encounter these scenarios more often than we think in the day-to-day rigours of life.

Understanding Personhood in a World Shaped by Diversity and AI

Lifestyle, Peace By Sep 10, 2024 No Comments

Persons are cultivated in families. Families give us the values that help us orient ourselves in a way that allows us to participate in life. This gives parents a huge responsibility. As a parent, you are essentially shaping the initial perspective of the persons you parent. In essence, you cultivate the first version of this person. For this reason, it’s important to account for this attribute when interacting with someone.

The Wholeness and Mystery of Family

Lifestyle, Peace By Aug 20, 2024 No Comments

For us humans, life is a complex domain in which we are born and then have to learn how to operate while doing it. We learn to live life while living life. All the major aspects of life have this wide range of complexity that cannot be narrowed down to a fixed proposition. So, how do we cope? In a conversation with Samantha Willman, we explored the role of family in this odyssey and the different ways it influences our relational capacity in the long run.

Reviving Analog Skills and Finding Meaning in a Digitized Era of Global Pluralism

Lifestyle, Peace By Jul 31, 2024 No Comments

In the information age, we are becoming less analog and more digital in our ways of being to keep up with the ever-changing digital world in which we live now. However, while digitisation is spreading into everything we do and requiring us to partner with technology and morph into Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homodeus”, we continue to struggle to balance digitization with the analog part of life and the world. In a conversation with Daniel Garner, we explored the question of how to handle the loss of obviousness that we used to have before the digital world emerged and some strategies that could be helpful in regaining a more balanced pace of being.

Finding Harmony Through Introspection and Authenticity

Lifestyle, Peace By Jun 13, 2024 No Comments

Every now and then, we find ourselves face-to-face with versions of ourselves that we do not like. There’s some sense of inadequacy that is not clearly articulated to us when it manifests. In a conversation I had with Oana, we explored how we find ourselves in such a scenario and some of the strategies that have helped us work through them and get to a more harmonised state.

Awakening the Artist Within for a Fuller Life

Lifestyle, Peace By May 14, 2024 No Comments

Have you ever felt trapped in your own life, unable to live on your own terms, yet having to follow guidelines prescribed to you? As we mature, we reach a place where we recognise that we have a particular nature of expression unique to ourselves. It’s like a resonance with the spirit of who we are, emerging from a sense of failure to fit anywhere. No matter what experiences we accumulate or skills we learn, we inevitably find that we have our own way of doing things—our signature style that marks everything we touch.

The Wisdom Project: Transjectivity on demand

Lifestyle, Peace By May 07, 2024 No Comments

Have you ever felt helpless, like a passenger in the driver’s seat of your own reactions, knowing the right course yet unable to steer away from the impending doom of your habitual responses? These blind spots, areas where our impulsive responses betray our deeper intentions, challenge even the most self-aware among us. Historically, the quest to master these impulses has been pursued by philosophers and spiritual leaders, offering deep wisdom that often seemed out of reach for those without the privilege of extensive study or reflection. Dr. Iris Stammberger’s Wisdom Project seeks to bridge these gaps, offering every individual the tools to reclaim control over their reactions and reshape their lives. In a recent conversation, we explored the essence of the Wisdom Project and how it democratises wisdom.

Mastering the Human Touch in an Age of AI

Lifestyle By Apr 23, 2024 No Comments

The journey starts with identifying those unique gifts through noticing and taking seriously one’s preferences for excellence. Many a time, we undermine our individual preferences with respect to fitting in and social belonging. However, this comes at the cost of suppressing our innate desires, which sometimes can be the spark of the gifts within us that are there to express our excellence. When we respond to that spark and take it seriously, it often comes with a clear vision of a potential reality that could manifest.

Cultivating Excellence in Everyday Life Through Mastery

Lifestyle By Apr 16, 2024 No Comments

In life, we all have a taste for excellence and mastery. It’s as though the most true things are embodied through practicing excellence and mastery. However, the journey to the place where one has elegantly embodied excellence and mastery is challenging. In a recent conversation I had with Stephen Musoke Senkomago (a.k.a SMS), we explored this theme and learned a few things.

The Transformative Power of Mentorship in Achieving Excellence

Lifestyle By Apr 09, 2024 No Comments

When cultivating excellence and refining our crafts, a good example always comes in in handy. It serves as an ideal we can aim for so that we can side-step mediocrity as we navigate the journey of our careers. In a recent conversation with Bashir, we explored his mentorship work and the value of setting a good example in a given domain of work.