# Hello World! Congrats! You have landed safely! **11th September 2025:** [My Book list](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/book-inventory) **8th December 2024:** [Got invited to Alumni Homecoming. Apart from nostalgia, Here's what I have to say.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/university-life) **8th December 2024:** [Value of Conflict](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/conflict) **6th December 2024:** [Beliefs matter. How?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/belief-checklists) **1st December 2024:** [How'd you draw the emotional imagery of your days?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/ayam) **27th November 2024:** [The year is about to end. What did we achieve? Retrospects and Prospects?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/dreamer-or-accountant) **22nd November 2024:** [A stress relief protocol as envisioned by Robert Sapolsky](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/a-simple-hack-for-stress-relief). **16th November 2024:** [Task prioritization & Stress](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/eisenhower-matrix-a-therapeutic-tool) **12th November 2024:** [Can there be "pragmatist" values? ](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/why-pragmatist-values) **3rd November 2024:** [How counter-intuiting Beginning can be?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/beginning) **27th October 2024:** [ Trichotomy of Change.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/inner-work) **24th October 2024:** [We learn from our leaders. One pattern to unlearn.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/who-to-blame-and-why-me) **19th October 2024:** [Two incredible interventions for adaptability.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/healthy-interventions) **15th October 2024:** [Stress is unstoppable, where does my coping lie?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/healthy-coping) **11th October 2024:** [\[Contd.\] GTD as a planner.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/gtd-under-review) **10th October 2024:** [David Allen's GTD and stress.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/prioritizing-under-pressure) **7th October 2024:** [A process for critical thinking.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/confronting-thoughts) **4th October 2024:** [How to mitigate chronic stress?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/micro-relief) **23rd September 2024:** [What motivates you?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/contrast) Feedback, or Validation? **15th September 2024:** [How to process stressors?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/stressing-the-right-way) **13th September 2024:** [Are negative emotions any good?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/negative-emotions) **3rd September 2024:** A poem dedicated to all the creatives out there. [A big part of our work is inter-personal.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/dance) **25th August 2024:** [Knowledge with agency.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/knowledge-with-agency) **23rd July 2024:** If one's thoughts are distorted, [can one clear them](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/transforms)? **4th July 2024:** Given you earned some money, would you like the reward of savings vs reward of expenditure? [Follow](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/budget). **1st July 2024:** My character is fixed genetically. My propensities and proclivities are to a large extent determined. [Can I overcome such limits?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/diversity) **9th June 2024:** I am large, [I *contain multitudes*.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/becoming) Walt Whitman **7th June 2024:** Woven into the very fabric of our lives [the Push/Pull](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/push-pull) becomes a dialogue between us and society or Nature at large. **17th May 2024:** [Can we customize social scripts?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/as-per-word...) **4th May 2024:** I am reading "The Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Greene. It's in interest of every professional who goes through social situations as part of their job. [Should we put up with pretenses, others or ours?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/to-act-or-not-to-act) **16th April 2024:** The conceptual framework of Dukkha as provided gives deep insight into human condition and suffering. If meditation is not your chosen savior, what can come to our aid as [a healthy coping strategy](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/dukkha-and-tetris)? **23rd March 2024:** It's often said that our true vocation lies at the intersection of societal demands and our individual gifts. [Here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/all-things-creative), I account for numerous factors when societal preferences affect creative preferences. The good news is that we have an over-abundance of creativity. **4th March 2024:** [Why truth matters in relationships?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/extension)\ \ **26th January 2024:** [Truth?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/truth) Does it require a process? **2nd September 2023:** [Once what was unwelcome, is welcome and then dissipates.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/life-in-spirals) **1st September 2023:** Some notes on [undertakings](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/preparation). **7th April 2023:** Do we exist to serve? [Individualism vs Collectivism](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/puzzle) **25th March 2023:** [Be water, my friend. -- Bruce Lee](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/be-water-my-friend) **19th December 2022:** I just couldn't wait for New Year's Eve for my New Year's essay. [Here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/endings-and-beginnings) are my thoughts on the occasion (*Spoiler alert! No big resolutions*). **20th October 2022:** I wrote a [primer](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/feelings-damn-feelings) on the Theory of Constructed Emotions after watching the following YouTube videos: [Video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gks6ceq4eQ) and [Video 2. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAEh3T5a80.) **17th September 2022:** Do we really need balance in our lives? [How to live?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/knowledge-or-wisdom) **8th April 2022:** Our days become weeks, our weeks become months, and our months become years. [Do we live?](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/values-needs-and-goals) **30th December 2021:** Two life philosophies Hedonism and Eudaemonism have been at the center of the question, *How to lead a good life?* [Here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/two-lives) are my thoughts on both. **4th September 2021:** An address with nuggets of condensed wisdom. [Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/pure-wisdom) **15th May 2021:** I share a very honest tool for discovering what one loves to do [here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/a-golden-heuristic). After all, among many things, our life work provides substance to our lives. **8th May 2021:** Is it possible to have the best of both worlds? Be both socially integrated and have a strong sense of self... I share my thoughts [here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/socially-us). **1st May 2021:** Of lately I schemed to compete with standard social media networks, and [here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/news-feed) is my first attempt @ it. LOL! Hope you enjoy it! **25th April 2021**: Admittingly Motivation is a complex subject. I came across a very simple, but very effective, empirical [model of Motivation](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/3c-model-of-motivation). Please find relevant YT videos [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9a-xrPjFqQ) & [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBJcqIaalQ). **18th April 2021:** I am back with another piece of writing on [Change](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/change). I wrote this after viewing a YT video on ["Neuroscience of Behavior Change"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mogig6WztT8). **17th April 2021:** I have published my first piece of writing [here](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/procrastination). This place will feature my writings on general topics/subjects pertaining to life/work. **2nd April 2021:** Please be patient as I devise content for my abode on the Web. \-- Azfar Hussain