A Singular Self

Suppose you know what you want to do with your days. Maybe you already did. Now think again. How might you be sure, that what you think or know is what you really want? What really satisfies you? You might be thinking, that since there is no strong counter evidence, it must be true. Maybe you have worked and thought long and hard about your purpose and are feeling confident, that effort equals probably truth. It may also very well be that you don't care at all about that question right now. Beliefs can be strong in my experience. For a time now I have been sure, that my purpose in life is to help people open up ideas, so that they may live a happier and more fulfilled life. I have used this belief as a tool to guide my actions and thoughts. At least I think I have. The strange thing is, that since I have created this tool for myself everything has been an opportunity to try this out. There exists a law of the instrument , that is suitable to remember: "Give a small boy...

The Enviable Working Life In so far as I envy my partner's working life, it's because she works part time and the attitude of her work seems rather laid back to me. What's even more important, she is creating long term value. The focus is not on making quickly more money, but on making more people educated and happy. At least that’s what I perceive. In my line of work we sometimes focus on that too, but we mainly focus on quick money - quick as in a few years not a few decades. I envy my partner's working life because she delves more in the oceans of humanities. Whereas I delve in the oceans of electronics. It could of course also be that I need to navigate uncharted waters. Everyone will eventually get tired floating the same seas over and over again, don’t they? So what can I do to incorporate more of the things I like about my partner's working life into mine? What can anybody do, who would like to do, have or be more of what someone else is doing, havin...

"The point of this question is to give some thought to the ways you help people with your talents, skills and passions that you might not be realizing (or giving yourself credit for). Another way to look at it is "What do you love helping people with," or "What would you be happy and excited to help others with even if you didn't get paid?" When other people talk too much about themselves, they may appear to some uptight or egocentric. Yet, we usually enjoy talking about ourselves a lot. Of course that doesn't mean, we get to. Maybe because we don't want to seem egocentric, because others always like to talk more than we or because people just seldom ask us anything real and mean it. I have always loved to listen and talk to other people and feel that you learn a lot about someone through asking the right questions. And people really continually thank me for the good time they had talking to me. When I get the chance to converse with someone,...