It has been an aimless week for me. Just felt that I had not done much to further my development of my next steps for the last 7 days. Though there were 2 evenings of excellent get-togethers with old and new friends, I think I spent most of my time unproductively.
Had a great dinner catch up with some good friends on Tues and also to celebrate a birthday. It’s been a while since the 6 of us last caught up together.
Then on Thurs, we had our Skillsfuture graduation dinner (The Science and Business of Wine). This was the first one that I had completed with another 3 good friends and the experience was memorable. We will probably be talking about this for many years to come.
The trainer suggested that each of us bring a bottle of our favourite vino to share with the group. The 18 of us had wines from all over the world, from USA to French, Italian and Australian ones. I brought along a Stag’s Leap Cab Sauv 2012 which I found in Cold Storage supermarket. Because of the 1976 Judgement of Paris event that was introduced to us during the course, I was very intrigued and did more research into this, including watching the enactment in a movie (Bottle Shock : 2008). The French wines had suffered a humiliating defeat against Californian upstarts. We decided to do the competition amongst us and my Californian red won again!
On the cryptocurrency front, I decided to use the balance of my USD funds (to date : just only 1.5k), to purchase the rest of the top 5 which I do not already have. More research needs to be done as I explore this new phenomenon and gauge its potential in the new world. The more I read, the more questions I have. Not sure what the end game will be, but I certainly want to join in for the crazy ride, having missed the recent surge in price by a few months.
Rediscovered another website I came across a few years ago. Social trading and eToro in particular. The market is always right, I am told. So why don’t I follow the market then? eToro allows an individual to participate with the best traders and join the herd. I am chewing over this and will likely fund my account next week to give this a try.
Having finished my first skillsfuture course, I will begin another 2 in a few weeks time. Starting a small business (1 month, 8 lessons) and a 6 months Specialist Diploma in Business Analytics (5 lessons / month). Very soon, 3 of my evenings per week will be occupied with night lessons.
As I have discussed with some friends, the new generation now treats failure as a learning experience and welcome it. The emergence of disruptive technology and startup culture re-enforces that mentality as a way of survival.
My generation was taught that failure is never an option and hence we are reluctant to take on risk and try. Age also works against us and brings us into a prolonged phase of inaction.
I have to break out of this mindset and learn to embrace failure, to remove my fear of trying new experiences. I need to constantly create my own learning opportunities, explore new horizons that will hopefully bring me to a new personal renaissance of self-discovery and growth.
Off to my next quarterly half marathon run this evening now…
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