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We change to seek something new, to learn new skills, to see new worlds.

We change to feel alive, to breathe, and to feel that energy flowing through every single vein.

We change because we didn’t have an option because it was our last restort, because we didn’t want to think.

We change for many, many reasons. Good or bad, useful or not so useful, change is a powerful force. Even if you fear it, change can transform your life, letting you explore new paths.

I’ve been writing for a long time. Not as a writer per se, but either through my daily work or my passion for writing short stories.

One thing I recently realized while interacting with Siri is that writing, at least to me, doesn’t happen in the same way as talking.
I engage different circuits in my brain that lead to different thinking, different words, different choices.

Writing is not the same as talking, it is a different way of thinking and, consequently, of conveying information to others.

From time to time in life you might want to explore something new. Start a new hobby or maybe visit a new city.
Or, even better, explore a new part of a city you already know.

Such detours are common, but there are other types of detours, like when you start noticing things around you. Imagine you’re walking in the same city you live in, but this time you choose to pay attention to what’s happening around you, to people watching from the windows, to the small interactions in the shops you pass by.

What will you see? How will your perception of the city change?
This same approach can be applied to anything, noticing things is a skill. A skill you need to write, a skill you need to learn, a skill you need to live.
The more you notice, the more rich the world becomes.

I recently discovered the concept of 0-sum days: days in which you don’t do anything of what you planned.
Think of it of days where you don’t workout properly, you don’t follow your diet, etc etc.

The idea, though, is not to have a perfect day with a perfect workout, but to avoid doing nothing.
If you do a smaller workout, then you’re not having a 0-sum day, but a productive one.

To be honest, this way of approaching the small foundational aspects in life (diet, workout, reading, whatever good habit you have), is interesting because it allows you to keep the habit alive without feeling overwhelmed.

Also, if you can choose a smaller dose of your habit that’s still effective then you can also skip that feeling that the day was unproductive.

Being grateful for the little things, in life and work, can have a much bigger impact than you think.

Why? Well, it all starts with noticing the little things. We take all of them for granted, but throughout our day many people might try to help us, do something that looks small but that, without it, we would feel lost, or use much more time to do our same work.

Noticing them helps us realize how much they are worth.