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+ | In addition to correcting my lifestyle balance, this hypothesis would also improve my coherence, as I would reduce my dependency on industries and practices I disagree with because of their environment and social impact. | ||
I entered this Transiency with the idea to implement this hypothesis, or at least test it. It is not exactly what happened. | I entered this Transiency with the idea to implement this hypothesis, or at least test it. It is not exactly what happened. | ||
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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. | ||
+ | ====(Un)Conclusion - Lessons Learned==== | ||
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+ | My work will now to test the second hypothesis highlighted in the section above. | ||
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+ | Again, I think that the lifestyle balance will be quite good. | ||
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+ | In terms of coherence, I changed a little bit my mind. My " | ||
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+ | After discussing about it with may different persons, I decided to move towards a more experimental approach, which leaves the issue of coherence a little bit aside, and let space for potentially imperfect though impactful actions. | ||
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+ | The question of coherence remains open, and I plan to spend some of my free time reading, discussing and experimenting about it. | ||
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+ | In a way, I am back to the starting point, which is testing a new lifestyle hypothesis, strengthened with the experience, work and tools learned this year. | ||
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+ | This 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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+ | I had to wrap this year up, I would say that I mostly started learned how to experiment at lifestyle scale. Below 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 & 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. |