Learning Nerd’s Diary #03 🤸
Hi folks!
Welcome back to the the Learning Nerd’s Diary.
I guess the best way to describe this week would be a pendulum. Where one side is ‘vacation hangover’ and the other side is the excitement of being back at work. The jury is still out on which extreme I ended the week with but this cartoon sums it up pretty well
Habits - necessary or evil?
My great grand father - a staunch academician who lived to be 102, was known for keeping his routine to the T. His household was so accustomed to it that when his daughter came to visit him for a day, she got ushered out of his room after lunch with a curt “Now its time for him to sleep”.
This incident among many more on Pitaji’s (as we used to call him) routine and rituals are a part of our family dinners. I’ve shown up here consistently for the last 3 weeks now - sorry but can’t help feeling a bit proud about it.
Coolest Things I Learnt This Week
Sharing craft, love & learning: Interestingly (and quite serendipitously) I spend some time last week sharing my love for food and tablet weaving with my friends. I did my weekly food-prep with a friend and her husband over the weekend. It was a fun couple of hours of chopping and chatting. And a friend who was over for dinner was intrigued by tablet weaving, which ended with us spending the rest of the evening weaving together. Now I know that sounds like we’re a bunch of old ladies weaving - but it was an evening well spent.
Both these interactions were super fun! And even though I was the one ‘teaching’, I felt I learnt so much in the process. You do learn best by teaching after all.
A lesson in persistence: This week I did my first handstand! Took me 6+ months to get here. Just a humble reminder that discipline and perseverance can beat pretty much everything - including gravity.
Fun-fact on how I managed to document this small achievement - I have been shooting my handstand attempts to get feedback on my technique so that I can course correct. So the surprise and sighs below are real!
You can know a lot about a person by looking at their… calendar: Last week I tweeted a picture of my calendar as a joke and it led to some interesting reactions & conversations.
A friend once called me a productivity junkie and because I pretty much live on my calendar it’s designed for productive maxx (also OCD maxx). For example, it looks the way it does because I colour code each block - yellow is async work, blue are meetings, orange is personal work. This helps me quickly assess my day and make changes if necessary. There is a lot more - maybe time to capture this somewhere!
That's it for this week folks, see you around!
Watch me fan girling one of my favourite Bands -Parekh & Sehgal, oh sorry Parekh & Singh (A girl can hope!)