It might sound ridiculous, but it’s a mindset and a lifestyle. — “When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.” ― James Clear, Atomic Habit If you haven’t done a lot of content creation, I might sound…

When you push yourself to grow, finding comfortable limits is harder than you might expect. — Personal growth means something a little different to every person. We’re all pursuing unique goals and no two people are exactly alike. Personal development journies run on different timelines and look quite different for everyone. …

While you can learn a lot from research, making experiences teaches lessons of its own. — It seems impossible, but I’m in the home stretch of working on my thesis, The Wildwood of Thought. I always struggle with walking away from a project and calling it done. No matter how many hours I’ve poured into something, I can usually see something else that I could improve…

In the most recent talk on humor, writing, and art I attended, a few interesting things came up. — In my quest to harness more humor in my writing, I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Michael Rees through my Humor Makes Us Better Storytellers course this semester. Rees is an award-winning artist, a Yale graduate with an impressive teaching career, and many museum exhibitions. …

It takes a lot of vulnerability to put your story out there. — The initial choice to tell my personal story was a difficult one. Even though the objective of my thesis project, The Wildwood of Thought is to encourage self-introspection on goals and priorities. But for me, explaining the reasons for the career decisions I made in my life requires touching on…

Being funny actually takes a lot of practice and revision. — Recently, my Humor Makes Us Better Storytellers course was visited by writer and comedian Valerie Nies. Her workshop was a mix of challenging my classmates and me to brainstorm potential content for jokes and humorous stories as well as work on analyzing and revising solid examples of humor. …

In experimenting with mixed media, I made a 2D-style comic in 3D. — Recently, I became aware of how much I operate like an ideal office-ready professional and how seldom I act like an artist. While these are all just labels that never encompass an entire person, I wanted to venture out and be a little unorthodox with how I created this project. Horror stories from my IT days came to mind when I read the prompt “misdirection.”

If I accumulate enough tips, maybe I’ll actually learn how to crack a joke… — I had the pleasure of attending an almost performative lecture by Nathan Phillips, co-founder of Technology, Humans and Taste, and Joe Schiappa, comedy writer and content creator for Sierra Mist, MTV, IFC, Sony, and Clear Channel. Watching two comedians give a talk was a delight. One thing I loved about…

For the past week, I’ve been focusing on making this novella more digestible for my prospective readers. — Working on an extremely text-heavy thesis project does cause me to have crises of faith at times. But what thesis project doesn’t? …