Doing anythi
ng a hundred times will give a deeper understanding than the first attempt. After writing 100 blogs, I have learned or “relearned” a few things.
Writing improves communication. Writing pushes us to discover the lost words — if the right word does not come in conversation, we skip over them, but not when we want to write well. The pause in writing hits me often and I face this supersize room of improvement to better articulate what is in this world and what is inside our head. Putting the words down brings clarity of thought (well sometimes). It is the processing as we write something down, that helps to reflect and brings a level of clarity. It is a revealing experience.
It needs extra effort to generate followers. The readers and the writers all have their story and their lives. Those, who have tons of followers, are never a pure luck. I am 
not there, nor do I want to be there. They may just make it look easy.
Appreciation comes with understanding. Writing daily to make a living is a different game from writing at leisure. There are just days that the inspiration is on vacation and the output becomes gibberish. I admire those successful and productive writers, not an easy profession, even more challenging under timeline or financial pressure. If you ever find it hard to respect a profession, try to take that up for some time. If there ever are more people putting themselves in others’ shoes, the world will be different.
A relaxed min
dset brings more inspiration. Three years have gone by between the 1st and the 100th. There are changes every day, let alone three years – mindset, parents, children, friends, career, workload and health. When we are relaxed and happy, the same thing looks more interesting and the world looks wonderful; no wonder the tennis players p
erform better when they are happy outside of the courts. When our mind is occupied with unwanted difficulties, our tank of inspiration gets empty quick. The publishing frequency reflects the state of minds between blogs.
When there is a choice, we only do activities that interest us. To find that out, check out those time demands that you choose to meet, or keep coming back to. If there is nothing coming up, that will be a sad discovery and it is time to start a (re) discovery journey.
he summer reading list of President Obama, it raises enough curiosity to pick up this book on a foreign topic – the history of species evolution and extinction.
cks a species that is emblematic – the American mastodian, the great auk, an ammonite talks about extinct species; the increasingly fragmented Amazon rainforest, the ocean acidification and the endangered corals at Great Barrier Reef talk about the present landscape; plus many more around mammals and human. If any of these is new to you, the author will carry you to these new territories.
n theory of mega fauna extinction, it is mind boggling on how human arrival may correlate the closest the species extinction when human predators unintentionally disrupts their long reproductive cycle; and the species reduction triggers forest overgrowth, then climate change. And how modern human species drive to extinction o
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