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Below is an attempt to summarize this year, and maybe give you a hint of how this feels, or even give you the will to go through the same intense and rewarding process. | Below is an attempt to summarize this year, and maybe give you a hint of how this feels, or even give you the will to go through the same intense and rewarding process. | ||
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- | I had met the FoAM team in 2012, as I was an intern at Greenloop. I was in the last year of my engineering studies, and except writing my thesis | + | I had met the FoAM team in 2012, as I was an intern at Greenloop. I was in the last year of my engineering studies, and except writing my thesis, I did not really knew what my future was made of. I was quite disappointed by the world of science and technology I was coming from, and trying to find a way to integrate other dimensions to make (bio)technologies more relevant to society. It was the right moment to enter the temple of Generalism. |
- | I came for an apero, and found everything | + | However, |
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+ | The other job was as a Biomimicry Promoter in a governmental agency fostering innovation, Paris Region Entreprises. I met wonderful entrepreneurs, | ||
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+ | After these two passionating working experiences, | ||
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+ | ===The Self-Sufficiency Hypothesis=== | ||
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+ | During one year working full time in Paris, I observed several phenomenon. | ||
+ | * Even though the work I was involved with was very interesting, | ||
+ | * Living at the core of a 10-million megapole made me even more conscious of the unsustainability of our (urban) lifestyles. At my individual scale, I found quite counter-productive to spend so much time & energy at work, to earn money, to buy stuff I could actually do myself instead of buying it from obscure | ||
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+ | Based on these observations, | ||
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+ | I entered this Transiency with the idea to implement | ||
====Winter - Decelerating==== | ====Winter - Decelerating==== | ||
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The current hypothesis I will try from January on is the following: | The current hypothesis I will try from January on is the following: | ||
- | * Most of my income may come from my work at a small start-up, based in Lausanne, and dealing with artificial closed ecosystem. It is going to be a very interesting job, in an entrepreneurial contexte, in which we will develop useful technologies for depollution, | + | * Most of my income may come from my work at a small start-up, based in Lausanne, and dealing with artificial closed ecosystem. It is going to be a very interesting job, in an entrepreneurial contexte, in which we will develop useful technologies for depollution, |
* During these periods, I will partly be traveling around to meet & visit interesting people working in " | * During these periods, I will partly be traveling around to meet & visit interesting people working in " | ||
* I will also spend some time in Brussels, meeting the local communities here I did not take the time to visit yet, and keeping some days available to start new projects at FoAM. I want also to keep some time to read, and explore Belgium more seriously than I did so far. | * I will also spend some time in Brussels, meeting the local communities here I did not take the time to visit yet, and keeping some days available to start new projects at FoAM. I want also to keep some time to read, and explore Belgium more seriously than I did so far. | ||
* I will keep spending some time with people I like, both in Brussels and elsewhere, and some time wandering around, to let space for things to happen. | * I will keep spending some time with people I like, both in Brussels and elsewhere, and some time wandering around, to let space for things to happen. | ||
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+ | ====(Un)Conclusion - Lessons Learned==== | ||
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+ | My work will now to test the second hypothesis highlighted in the section above. In a way, I am back to the starting point, which makes me think that the Transiency will, in my case, continue a little bit as a continuous process for a while. | ||
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+ | This year, I mostly started learned how to experiment at lifestyle scale. Here are a few lessons I learned during this year. May they be useful to you, if you feel like starting a similar process: | ||
+ | * **External constraints are not the hardest.** Once I had 100% free time to do whatever I would feel so, I started to feel lost. Things that appeared to be very desirable before looked suddenly pointless and boring. More importantly, | ||
+ | * **The deepest personal work is the more transformative.** Learning how to do my own laundry soap was great. However, coaching and mindfulness allowed me to understand better who I am, and unlocked some of my internal barrieres to action. | ||
+ | * **Free experimentation space and time is more relevant than a five-year detailed plan.** I think that the most important ingredient for a life transition is the freedom of action, movement and thought. Leaving room for experimentation and trying stuff was an important condition to learning about myself, and my five year plans quickly became obsolete after small short-term experimentations. Fail soon, fail often, as they say. |