> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://practicum.azfar.xyz/master.md). # Hello World! Congrats! You have landed safely! **11th September 2025:** [My Book list](/book-inventory.md) **8th December 2024:** [Got invited to Alumni Homecoming. Apart from nostalgia, Here's what I have to say.](/university-life.md) **8th December 2024:** [Value of Conflict](/conflict.md) **6th December 2024:** [Beliefs matter. How?](/belief-checklists.md) **1st December 2024:** [How'd you draw the emotional imagery of your days?](/ayam.md) **27th November 2024:** [The year is about to end. What did we achieve? Retrospects and Prospects?](/dreamer-or-accountant.md) **22nd November 2024:** [A stress relief protocol as envisioned by Robert Sapolsky](/a-simple-hack-for-stress-relief.md). **16th November 2024:** [Task prioritization & Stress](/eisenhower-matrix-a-therapeutic-tool.md) **12th November 2024:** [Can there be "pragmatist" values? ](/why-pragmatist-values.md) **3rd November 2024:** [How counter-intuiting Beginning can be?](/beginning.md) **27th October 2024:** [ Trichotomy of Change.](/inner-work.md) **24th October 2024:** [We learn from our leaders. One pattern to unlearn.](/who-to-blame-and-why-me.md) **19th October 2024:** [Two incredible interventions for adaptability.](/healthy-interventions.md) **15th October 2024:** [Stress is unstoppable, where does my coping lie?](/healthy-coping.md) **11th October 2024:** [\[Contd.\] GTD as a planner.](/gtd-under-review.md) **10th October 2024:** [David Allen's GTD and stress.](/prioritizing-under-pressure.md) **7th October 2024:** [A process for critical thinking.](/confronting-thoughts.md) **4th October 2024:** [How to mitigate chronic stress?](/micro-relief.md) **23rd September 2024:** [What motivates you?](/contrast.md) Feedback, or Validation? **15th September 2024:** [How to process stressors?](/stressing-the-right-way.md) **13th September 2024:** [Are negative emotions any good?](/negative-emotions.md) **3rd September 2024:** A poem dedicated to all the creatives out there. [A big part of our work is inter-personal.](/dance.md) **25th August 2024:** [Knowledge with agency.](/knowledge-with-agency.md) **23rd July 2024:** If one's thoughts are distorted, [can one clear them](/transforms.md)? **4th July 2024:** Given you earned some money, would you like the reward of savings vs reward of expenditure? [Follow](/budget.md). **1st July 2024:** My character is fixed genetically. My propensities and proclivities are to a large extent determined. [Can I overcome such limits?](/diversity.md) **9th June 2024:** I am large, [I *contain multitudes*.](/becoming.md) Walt Whitman **7th June 2024:** Woven into the very fabric of our lives [the Push/Pull](/push-pull.md) becomes a dialogue between us and society or Nature at large. **17th May 2024:** [Can we customize social scripts?](/as-per-word....md) **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?](/to-act-or-not-to-act.md) **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](/dukkha-and-tetris.md)? **23rd March 2024:** It's often said that our true vocation lies at the intersection of societal demands and our individual gifts. [Here](/all-things-creative.md), 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?](/extension.md)\ \ **26th January 2024:** [Truth?](/truth.md) Does it require a process? **2nd September 2023:** [Once what was unwelcome, is welcome and then dissipates.](/life-in-spirals.md) **1st September 2023:** Some notes on [undertakings](/preparation.md). **7th April 2023:** Do we exist to serve? [Individualism vs Collectivism](/puzzle.md) **25th March 2023:** [Be water, my friend. -- Bruce Lee](/be-water-my-friend.md) **19th December 2022:** I just couldn't wait for New Year's Eve for my New Year's essay. [Here](/endings-and-beginnings.md) are my thoughts on the occasion (*Spoiler alert! No big resolutions*). **20th October 2022:** I wrote a [primer](/feelings-damn-feelings.md) 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?](/knowledge-or-wisdom.md) **8th April 2022:** Our days become weeks, our weeks become months, and our months become years. [Do we live?](/values-needs-and-goals.md) **30th December 2021:** Two life philosophies Hedonism and Eudaemonism have been at the center of the question, *How to lead a good life?* [Here](/two-lives.md) are my thoughts on both. **4th September 2021:** An address with nuggets of condensed wisdom. [Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.](/pure-wisdom.md) **15th May 2021:** I share a very honest tool for discovering what one loves to do [here](/a-golden-heuristic.md). 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](/socially-us.md). **1st May 2021:** Of lately I schemed to compete with standard social media networks, and [here](/news-feed.md) 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](/3c-model-of-motivation.md). 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](/change.md). 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](/procrastination.md). 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