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<h3>At a glance
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<h3>At a glance
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<li><a href="#ec">What are your (other) interests?
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What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules
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and had fun in the creative process?
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<li><a href="#andy">what new skills have you learnt later in life (and/or not related
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Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt
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<li><a href="#mp2">
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What other things are you doing to manage your mental health? Share
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your tips with us!
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What’s [been] a previous moment of disappointment turned success?
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<li><a href="#cc">What’s the best gift you have ever received from a leader?
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<li><a href="#andy">What new skills have you learnt later in life (and/or not related
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<p id="ec"><b>What are your (other) interests? - E.C.
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What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules
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and had fun in the creative process? - Joseph
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I once took an undergraduate-course on Composing Music in the Classical
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Style (for example, in the style of Mozart). For an assignment in that
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course, I wrote a musical work that appears to be thoroughly
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twentieth-century, instead of looking eighteenth-century. My
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course-instructor did not accept my work, but I still had fun.
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(I’ve realised the importance of surrounding myself with people who
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value creativity and innovation - which is not everyone, and I
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certainly don’t really appreciate flattery and/or smooth talk, either).
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<p>- Approximately 4th April, 2020
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Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt
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from it. - M.P.
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An “oops-boo-hoo” of mine, as you call it? I run a blog where I post
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photos from my trips to art-galleries in Sg. Art-hunting, if you will.
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But I got a little lost; something didn’t feel right (about such
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blogging) anymore. I asked the person known, on LinkedIn, as Alin
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Sneha Abraham, for her perspective on the matter; I said I wasn’t sure
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if my blogging was adding value to the world. Alin said something to
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the effect that it is more important that I enjoy myself; that way, at
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least one person benefits. So my oops-boo-hoo was to overlook my own
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enjoyment of the activity in question. I concluded that I liked
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visiting galleries, but posting photos on social media? Not so much.
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<p>- Approximately 4th April, 2020
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<p id="mp2"><b>
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What other things are you doing to manage your mental health? Share
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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
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given me. Like, I try to appreciate the ground I have - yes, the
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ground. Like, it’s so stable. And I can have access to it. Ms. Vaishali,
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who seems to teach yoga, elaborates the idea, in the following
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blog-post:
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<a href="https://thestillspace.org/2020/03/22/ode-to-the-ground/">
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https://thestillspace.org/2020/03/22/ode-to-the-ground/
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<p>- Approximately 7th April, 2020.
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<b>What’s [been] a previous moment of disappointment turned success?
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- Mark
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Well, I would categorise my interests into three:
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In my early twenties, I volunteered to facilitate a week-long camping
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activity, during which I got very little sleep. I would evaluate my own
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<li>Ones I am currently working on
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performance, during that camp, as poor - I just wasn’t getting enough
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sleep.
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<li>Ones I haven't developed much (yet)
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<li>Ones I've pursued to some extent, but which I've put on hold
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For number 1, I count these:
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<li> Learning Indonesian language
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<li> Reading books (let me know if you want to know which books in particular)
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<li> Learning the programming language Python, as a means for me to get a computer to help me with some stuff
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For number 2 - hobbies/interests I have yet to much develop:
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<li>make-up (as in painting faces)
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<li>Landscape gardening (possibly in the Zen style)
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<li> Photography
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<li> Learning Japanese language
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- 24th June, 2020
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Fast forward about a decade, now I value my sleeping hours. I avoid
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taking on overnight jobs, because I know I won’t be at my best. I’ve
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learnt to manage myself a little, I guess - and that counts as a
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success to me!
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<p>- Approximately 3rd May, 2020
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<p>Difficult to say which has been the best for me, since there are a
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few good ones I can identify (which I am thankful for, of course). I
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would highlight, as my response to your post, opportunities that a
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teacher gave me, when I was 10 years old (approximately). I had
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interest in making flashy animation with the software Macromedia Flash
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(which is now apparently obsolete). I guess that teacher liked what I
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was doing with Flash, because the next thing I knew, I was given the
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opportunity to produce animation, for showcase at a major school event
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(the anniversary of my Primary School, or something like that). I
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didn’t end up feeling proud of the animation that I would eventually
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make, but even till today, I am still pleased and flattered that I got
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“talent-spotted”, in a way.
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