Journey to my second brain

Join me in my attempt to revive creativity

Disclaimer: This Medium post is unlike my other ones. Instead of a technical drive-through, this is more like an emotional self-reflection. Brace yourself for a potentially dull, surely messy, and hopefully echoing read.

Preface

It has been a while since I write on Medium.

Sometimes I spend time procrastinating about why did I stop writing Medium and excuses like work, duties, and fatigue seem to be very easy scapegoats.

But the longer I have delayed writing again on Medium, the stronger the friction the get back into reading, learning, absorbing and most importantly sharing.

This all changed last night, when I stared at my bookshelf, picked up the Atomic Habits which I bought a couple of years ago, and started reading under the heatwave of 35 degrees Celcius…

Two chapters into the book, I felt the spark and a chill down my spine:

You don’t rise to the level of your goals. But you will fall to the level of your system.

Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to…