Month: August 2022

Fail At Something Every Day

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It took me a while to write this blog post because until now I actually didn’t understand how important it is to fail at doing something. I have always been really bad at dealing with things that I am bad at. I always felt embarrassed or awkward if I didn’t know or I couldn’t do something. And that is the worst way to tackle a challenge. If you are not comfortable with being bad at something you are going to avoid learning and you are not going to progress. For example I used to get frustrated when I played golf that I am inconsistent and I stopped playing for a while. I realised that I just wasn’t putting the time and wasn’t eager to continue the lessons because I simply didn’t like not being good at it. Which is really silly. How else should I become better? After I got over myself I went back into playing golf and I am still not great but I am much more consistent. Failing used to have a …

How To Increase Your Ability To Focus

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Everybody seems to be writing lately about how the online world have shortened our attention span. The amount of information that we process daily is forcing us to switch context rapidly. You have probably experienced plenty of that yourself. I have recently read in an article that one of the new expressions in the Swedish language (I am studying Swedish) is “popcorn brain”. You would say that someone has a popcorn brain if they switch focus way too often. The type of person that watches tv with the phone in their hand, switching their attention between the two and keeping track of various pop up notifications as well. I found that hilarious that Swedish felt the need to describe a person in this way but I actually agree with this. This expression is super useful. Sometimes I have popcorn brain myself. A few years back I really struggled to focus for long periods of time. Focusing even for 30 minutes at a time seemed like a challenge. At the time I worked as a technical …