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  1. What are your (other) interests? +
  2. +What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules + and had fun in the creative process?
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  3. what new skills have you learnt later in life (and/or not related +
  4. +Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt +from it. + +
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  5. +What other things are you doing to manage your mental health? Share +your tips with us! + +
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  6. +What’s [been] a previous moment of disappointment turned success? + +
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  7. What’s the best gift you have ever received from a leader? + +
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  8. What new skills have you learnt later in life (and/or not related to your work line)?
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    What are your (other) interests? - E.C. - + +

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    +What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules + and had fun in the creative process? - Joseph + +

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    +I once took an undergraduate-course on Composing Music in the Classical +Style (for example, in the style of Mozart). For an assignment in that +course, I wrote a musical work that appears to be thoroughly +twentieth-century, instead of looking eighteenth-century. My +course-instructor did not accept my work, but I still had fun. +(I’ve realised the importance of surrounding myself with people who +value creativity and innovation - which is not everyone, and I +certainly don’t really appreciate flattery and/or smooth talk, either). +

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    - Approximately 4th April, 2020 +

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    +Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt +from it. - M.P. +

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    • Learning Indonesian language -
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    • Reading books (let me know if you want to know which books in particular) -
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    • Learning the programming language Python, as a means for me to get a computer to help me with some stuff -
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    • make-up (as in painting faces) -
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    • Landscape gardening (possibly in the Zen style) -
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    - - 24th June, 2020 +An “oops-boo-hoo” of mine, as you call it? I run a blog where I post +photos from my trips to art-galleries in Sg. Art-hunting, if you will. +But I got a little lost; something didn’t feel right (about such +blogging) anymore. I asked the person known, on LinkedIn, as Alin +Sneha Abraham, for her perspective on the matter; I said I wasn’t sure +if my blogging was adding value to the world. Alin said something to +the effect that it is more important that I enjoy myself; that way, at +least one person benefits. So my oops-boo-hoo was to overlook my own +enjoyment of the activity in question. I concluded that I liked +visiting galleries, but posting photos on social media? Not so much.

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    - Approximately 4th April, 2020 +

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    +What other things are you doing to manage your mental health? Share +your tips with us! - M.P. + +

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    +Oh, it's you again, M.P. (Hi again!) I try to have some fun with the ground that is +given me. Like, I try to appreciate the ground I have - yes, the +ground. Like, it’s so stable. And I can have access to it. Ms. Vaishali, + who seems to teach yoga, elaborates the idea, in the following + blog-post: + + https://thestillspace.org/2020/03/22/ode-to-the-ground/ + +

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    - Approximately 7th April, 2020. +

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    +What’s [been] a previous moment of disappointment turned success? + - Mark + +

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    +In my early twenties, I volunteered to facilitate a week-long camping +activity, during which I got very little sleep. I would evaluate my own +performance, during that camp, as poor - I just wasn’t getting enough +sleep. +

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    +Fast forward about a decade, now I value my sleeping hours. I avoid +taking on overnight jobs, because I know I won’t be at my best. I’ve +learnt to manage myself a little, I guess - and that counts as a +success to me! +

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    - Approximately 3rd May, 2020 +

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    What’s the best gift you have ever received from a leader? - C.C. + +

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    Difficult to say which has been the best for me, since there are a +few good ones I can identify (which I am thankful for, of course). I +would highlight, as my response to your post, opportunities that a +teacher gave me, when I was 10 years old (approximately). I had +interest in making flashy animation with the software Macromedia Flash +(which is now apparently obsolete). I guess that teacher liked what I +was doing with Flash, because the next thing I knew, I was given the +opportunity to produce animation, for showcase at a major school event +(the anniversary of my Primary School, or something like that). I +didn’t end up feeling proud of the animation that I would eventually +make, but even till today, I am still pleased and flattered that I got +“talent-spotted”, in a way. +

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    - Approximately 28th May, 2020 +

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    What new skills have you learnt later in life (and/or not related to your work line)? - Andy

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    - Approximately 2nd June, 2020

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