Future Man

2026

The man that I am and the man I want to be. Now that it’s the new year it’s worth thinking about my shortcomings in my character and how I can improve them. I want to start meditating consistently, write more consistently, let me pause and think about my goal this year, you can think about my life in different parts that all have to be in harmony with others, so what are the parts of my life, friends & family, career, creative endeavors.

I think life is the most fun when you have a little bit of everything, to expand I don’t think I’ll ever stop learning as working on projects because it’s just so much fun when you are knee deep in your project it gets exhausting and you begin to detest the thing you loved so much, I see this with Math during finals, as with anything for a long time, as in just one single thing, you can make a lot of progress but it’s so exhausting. There’s no breaks ever it’s just so go-go-go. That as was me last year, I did take breaks but everything had a productive ulterior motive.We went to toronto for a concert but I brought a suit and went to a networking event. I don’t think that was bad, but I didn’t chill. I never stopped thinking about work and career which is good, but I do want to not worry so much that I cannot live right now in the moment. I think that’s the biggest takeaway, this year for me personally this year was + wayyyy more fun than last year, career wise I want to post on LinkedIn and pump out lots of startup content, write weekly on the blog.

I still have no idea how this year we’ll be making money with the start-up. I don’t even know if it’s the right choice but in order for this move to work properly, I’ll need social media exposure, I’ll need the people’s support. I’ll need to learn a lot of new skills primarily product development, the electro-mechanical side, ordering from vendors, inventory, shipping.

Virtue

Benjamin Franklin wrote about how he focused on one virtue a week. For example he would focus on cultivating the virtue of patience one week, and write about the flaws in that sphere. I want to do something similar in my life, I believe that character is as important as career, even if I’m the most successful person career wise, I wouldn’t be very happy if I had to sacrifice my integrity for it.

I want to be more humble. This has been a focus for some time now, my grade 12 teacher pointed that out. I rejected it at first, but I now I can see how my character was clouded by arrogance, and not confidence. I’m still working on being humble. I can catch it, right before/after I say something not modest, but the true virtue I believe is not having that thought at all. One day, through practice I will not even have the temptation.

Here is Franklin’s system : https://fs.blog/the-thirteen-virtues/

Origin of species

I’m so tired of reading this book. Darwin’s great, but I feel like he’s saying the same thing over and over again. Species vary over the course of time, dependent on nature,i.e competition, predators, habitat, and the ones that vary away from success eventually die off, and the ones that adapted right will live on.

Some things also don’t make sense to me, like when he talks about grass, and how its species vary in a certain way.

This probably is the cause of not reading regularly. Every time I come back to the book, it’s like I started reading from the middle of the book. I’ll read better next : )