refactoring

.obsidian/core-plugins-migration.json

@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@
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   "sync": false,
   "canvas": true,
-  "bookmarks": true,
-  "properties": false
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+  "bookmarks": true
+}

.obsidian/graph.json

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+  "search": "",
+  "showTags": false,
+  "showAttachments": false,
+  "hideUnresolved": false,
+  "showOrphans": true,
+  "collapse-color-groups": true,
+  "colorGroups": [],
+  "collapse-display": true,
+  "showArrow": false,
+  "textFadeMultiplier": 0,
+  "nodeSizeMultiplier": 1,
+  "lineSizeMultiplier": 1,
+  "collapse-forces": true,
+  "centerStrength": 0.518713248970312,
+  "repelStrength": 10,
+  "linkStrength": 1,
+  "linkDistance": 250,
+  "scale": 1,
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+}

.obsidian/workspace.json

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+    "why-new-year-resolution.md",
+    "recurring-regret.md",
     "angered-by-questions.md",
     "abstraction.md",
     "about-me.md.md",

recurring-regret.md

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+My New Year’s resolution was to write on various topics. A topic a week seemed like a reasonable target. Turns out it is easier to generate ideas, but harder to execute. Since it’s a commitment that one deeply cares about, one can’t help but constantly think about doing it perfectly. I think, gradually, the perfectionism becomes the target, and the actual resolution takes the back seat. At least that’s what happens to me, losing the focus, which should have been becoming better, and not perfect. And yet again, while writing this article, I sidetracked into a philosophical argument about how perfection is an enemy of progress.
+
+Coming back, I actually wanted to explore the idea of regret minimization, something I read about in the Jeff Bezos’s biography.
+
+	“I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that, I thought, was going to be a really big deal.” – [Jeff Bezos’s interview on youtube](https://youtu.be/jwG_qR6XmDQ?si=WVvk3p94wpQR-llq)
+
+It goes like this – think about the time when you will be older, looking back, what would be your biggest regret?
+
+It’s a powerful idea that I always wanted to adopt. But, I, for one, have always struggled a bit to project myself too far into the future, and think back like this. 
+
+And then while writing the article about - “Why you should have a new year's resolution?”, I finally had a breakthrough. I don’t really need to project that far into the future, I simply need to look back from now, and think about - recurring regret - what is something that I, time and again felt like, could have done differently?
+
+There’s another angle to the concept, whatever is recurring, but isn’t actually a regret, is either a behaviour flaw, or just tells you that you aren’t interested in the opportunity as much as you initially thought to be. If it’s not a regret, just scratch that item off the list, stop feeling guilty about not making the time for the activity.
+
+Recurring regret has to be thought of as a miracle that you want to happen, which, according to you, would make your life a 10x better.
+
+If you, like me, are unable to pinpoint exactly the things that you should be focusing on, try this idea. Killing any distractions, including the perfectionism, helps build the momentum. Building momentum in the right direction gets you to your goals. Reaching your goals helps you understand yourself. “Know Thyself”, is what makes you stand out from the crowd. Recurring regret – question that helps you pick the right direction.
+
+
+			Choose direction. Build momentum.
+
+### “Although for many years I lived hand to mouth—sometimes in semi-poverty—I have lived like a rich man ever since I started making films. Throughout my life I have been able to do what I truly love, which is more valuable than any cash you could throw at me. At a time when friends were establishing themselves by getting university degrees, going into business, building careers and buying houses, I was making films, investing everything back into my work.”
+
+- Werner Herzog

why-new-year-resolution.md

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+Everyone would already be aware of the jokes that go around with NYRs (new-year’s resolutions). Reading those one-liners, and having delivered a couple of them myself, I gave up on the NYRs, a few years back. Maybe you did as well.
+
+But, this year, I got a different perspective on the NYRs. It’s not what you resolve, rather what made you think about those specific agendas? No one can change their past, or the mistakes already committed. But, everyone can take away some lessons, lessons that no one else could have taught, no classes, no teachers, friends or the parents. And, it’s those lessons that would, eventually, take you to your maximum potential.
+
+NYRs are not simple promises, rather, are a form of self-reflection. They highlight the behaviours, actions/inactions, that you feel could have been better, done better, they sharpen your focus. They are your answer to
+
+- What matters to me?
+- What’s holding me back?
+- Where am I heading, What next for me?
+- Am I working on things that matter to me?
+
+They are also your answer to
+- What are my likes and dislikes?
+- How I see myself?
+- My intrinsic motivation?
+
+No one, I believe, wants to remain static. Every one, I believe, wants to grow. That’s the nature. The reason why some people grow, while others can’t is simply a matter of – what? What should I grow into? How and why come later. Stronger the what, the easier would it be to find “how”, and simpler it becomes to answer “why”.
+
+The best of the potential is lost because we did not spend enough time thinking about ourselves, about our “whats”, “hows” and “whys”.
+
+I, for one, am taking upon myself to resolve to improve this year. Resolve to reach my potential. Resolve to get a clarity on what I want to become.
+
+And, I encourage you to take the leap as well. I leave you with this quote, maybe it would help you build up your courage to face your innermost critic – 
+
+>"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt