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Amélie and I had been together for a few months at the beginning of this Transiency. Thanks to this new period opening in my life, we now had breakfast together every morning. We also spent the Aikido-free (on my side) and teaching-free (on her side) nights together, often doing nothing else than having a tasty (vegetarian) lunch together, and chatting. | Amélie and I had been together for a few months at the beginning of this Transiency. Thanks to this new period opening in my life, we now had breakfast together every morning. We also spent the Aikido-free (on my side) and teaching-free (on her side) nights together, often doing nothing else than having a tasty (vegetarian) lunch together, and chatting. | ||
- | Compared to the lifestyle I had in Paris, | + | Compared to the lifestyle I had in Paris, |
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+ | ===Delaying=== | ||
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+ | In January, I was lucky enough to receive a job offer from my Master Thesis Supervisor. He was (and is) starting a small company on the topic of artificial closed-ecosystems, | ||
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+ | He proposed me to join in as the first employee of the structure, starting from March. | ||
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+ | Even though the Transiency work had not been easy so far, I could not think about stoppping so early. I had a lot of deep personal work to do, probably way more that what I envisioned in the first place, and I would definitely not even be started with most of it by March. I had to say now. | ||
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+ | I understood in this experience how hard it can be to say no to an offer when you do not know exactly how to phrase what you would do instead, and you can only intuitively feel it is very important. | ||
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+ | Hopefully, my Master Thesis Supervisor did not take it the wrong way, and offered me the job again last August. But more on that later. | ||
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+ | ===Cooking=== | ||
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+ | FoAM Brussels being a temple of cooking, I spent some time trying [[http:// | ||
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+ | In addition to reducing my reliance on industrial food, it also helped me decelerating & reconnecting body & mind. | ||
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+ | ===Teaching=== | ||
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+ | In September 2013, [[http:// | ||
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+ | I felt very honored to be proposed to co-teach in such an environment, | ||
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+ | I was confronted their with highly creative students, and a complete new way of teaching. This way of teaching is way more personal, intricated with the personality & life trajectories of these students. | ||
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+ | I wish I could bring part of this way of teaching to my engineering school, as I think it would help have engineers concerned with society, conscious of their personal issues, and more able to question the myths and taboos of the society they live in. | ||
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+ | ===Gardening=== | ||
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+ | One of the initial objectives of this year was also to learn practical know-hows to include more DIY in my daily life. | ||
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+ | FoAM Brussels gave me a "carte blanche" | ||
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+ | This experiment in itself gave me an idea of how hard it is to rely on my own food production, and how devoted and sedentary I had to be. Which made me re-think completely the self-sufficient hypothesis. | ||
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+ | ====Spring - Seeding==== | ||
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+ | After decelerating, | ||
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+ | ===Reading=== | ||
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+ | I needed to feel inspired, and learn from others' | ||
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+ | The Moneyless Man is about the experiment Mark Boyle performed over one year. He tried to live without earning, spending or using any money during one year. It is great book, easy to read, and full of tips on how to reduce your reliance on a destructive monetary economy. However, I could not find any answers to the two most pressing questions I had with moneyless lifestyle: | ||
+ | * How to get healed in case of a big incident ? Mark Boyle relied on the rights he precently acquired to the British Security system. However, the book gives hints on how to self-heal yourself with plants, and how mutual aid provides you help when you deeply need it. | ||
+ | * What happens to your social life with less coherent people ? Mark Boyle says that it was one of the most difficult aspect of his experiment. He could not spend time with friends in money-based social activities, which is OK for one year, but for more ? Does it make sense to transform your social network for the sake of coherence ? | ||
+ | I think it is important for me to be able to meet people which opinions are far away from mines, to understand better their viewpoints and what builds the difference between me and them. I have the feeling that if I live such a life, I will cut myself out of such opportunities. | ||
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+ | The Four Hour Workweek is a book about entrepreneurship. This world has always interested me, as I like the strength and perseverance of people getting involved in the creation of a company. However, I always felt distant from them in the sense that I am not attracted by the idea of devoting all my time to one single project, thereby risking to lose everything in case of failure. | ||
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+ | This book gave me a quite uncommon answer. What if your company was designed to bring you money back to do whatever you want to do ? Even though I do not agree with all the strategies proposed in this book, I like the idea of designing your income source so that you can maximize your freedom of lifestyle - and not necessarily try to merge both. It was a very pleasant, inspiring and thought-provoking read. | ||
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+ | The full reading list of this year is available [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===Traveling=== | ||
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+ | One of the things I disliked with my studying & working lifestyles was the forced sedentarity induced by the fact of having to follow courses / having to work in a give place. However, my initial hypothesis was to become self-sufficient, | ||
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+ | It was one of the conclusions of this Transiency: I prefer to travel than to garden. As I discovered this in April, I traveled a lot ever since. | ||
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+ | The very first important trip of this year was to Slovenia, a place where Amélie lived for a couple of years. After visiting Ljubljana and some very nice friends there, we moved to the countryside to spend some time at [[http:// | ||
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+ | Rolling Hedgehog is a self-sufficiency experiment, led by Amélie' | ||
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+ | It was a wonderful stay, however I understood that I would not transform it into a lifstyle. I would love to introduce slices of several weeks of this lifestyle, but I would also like to be able to escape it, and see other people, other places, other parts of the world. | ||
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+ | The self-sufficiency hypothesis was dead. | ||
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+ | ===Being Coached=== | ||
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+ | Besides being actively followed by the FoAM Brussels' | ||
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+ | During six sessions, we tackled deeply rooted brakes which left me doubtful and/or discouraged. Through very precisely phrased and chirurgically-targeted questions, Vali helped me unravel deep nodes in order to constructively & effectively move forward. | ||
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+ | For instance, after six sessions, I was able to precisely phrase what I felt was my mission in life. I also learned practical ways to be more efficient in my work, especially with unpleasant tasks, and how to deal with emotionnally perturbing events. | ||
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+ | I think that this process was one of the two most effective ones in the whole Transiency. I feel like I am work - and do stuff in general - more effectively, | ||
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+ | And yes, I will talk about the second process later. | ||
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+ | ===Forecasting=== | ||
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