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            <title><![CDATA[Hedonic Treadmill]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It&apos;s not unusual to feel empty and dissatisfied after achieving your most audacious set of goals. We ultimately derive meaning and fulfilment in hitting milestones, celebrating wins to feel something. Happiness. Oscillating between the highs and lows until you find your baseline of happiness. It&apos;s the perpetual hula hoop of emotions after you received the bonus from work, finished the key-lime pie and exited that startup. Happiness remains short-lived. So how does one escape the hed...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&apos;s not unusual to feel empty and dissatisfied after achieving your most audacious set of goals. We ultimately derive meaning and fulfilment in hitting milestones, celebrating wins to feel something. Happiness. Oscillating between the highs and lows until you find your baseline of happiness. It&apos;s the perpetual hula hoop of emotions after you received the bonus from work, finished the key-lime pie and exited that startup. Happiness remains short-lived. So how does one escape the hedonic treadmill?</p><ol><li><p>Focus on the Process Prioritise the journey. Focus on process-orientation rather than the destination. It&apos;s the joy of writing, building and failing that makes the path worth travelling. One&apos;s baseline of happiness can improve with the &quot;continual effort and engagement in some intentional process&quot; as proposed by Sheldon &amp; Lyubomirsky. The intention and the confirmation one is on the path increases one&apos;s baseline happiness. Do this rather than simply chasing outcomes and sunsets.</p></li><li><p>Celebrate Small Wins Learn to celebrate small wins- Brewed your morning coffee. Check. Made your Bed. Check. Practicing gratitude for the smallest of tasks can be the positive feedback loop you build for yourself. Learning positivity and affirming your actions can uplift your baseline level of happiness ever so slightly. At the end of the day, appreciate serendipity and the lightness of being. Grow to appreciate these moments.</p></li><li><p>Learn Earnestly The journey of learning and self-development never ends. Finding a new perspective, uncovering the stories of others through their life&apos;s work, novels and art can kickstart the journey of self-discovery. Channel those learnings and find meaning in beginning a new project.</p></li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Curation is Creation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:12:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Curation is the new creation. Here&apos;s why: 1. Connections are drawn. Underlying thematics over one-punch headlines and one-hit wonder stories fuels curiosity and creates shared engagement and interest. People need context and continued discussion to keep consuming what they consume. 2. Increased discoverability and variety. Information is everywhere. Librarians of the social web are needed to discover, source and organise new reads in one place. Authoring new content, can be energy-deplet...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Curation is the new creation. Here&apos;s why:</p><p>1. Connections are drawn.</p><p>Underlying thematics over one-punch headlines and one-hit wonder stories fuels curiosity and creates shared engagement and interest. People need context and continued discussion to keep consuming what they consume.</p><p>2. Increased discoverability and variety.</p><p>Information is everywhere. Librarians of the social web are needed to discover, source and organise new reads in one place. Authoring new content, can be energy-depleting as it is a fruitful struggle. The people want general and specialised content but finding where to begin, who to follow, where to start is the real roadkill.</p><p>3. Journalism is now made social.</p><p>Check out the platform of twitter and the function of retweeting, the line separating creator and platform continues to thin. Democratised access to new information, it&apos;s all power to the people. Anyone can write. Anyone can create. Anyone can be given the right to create. And own it. Curators are empowering creators by building communities and refashioning the old into the new. The pace of news becoming obsolete is accelerating faster than ever. So drawing connections from past, present and future is the space that curators ultimately fill.</p><p>How can you start curating: guide to come 👉</p>]]></content:encoded>
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