This is a list of interesting questions and topics one could think and write about. I kept a similar list on my old website under the Article Index, and I realized that it's quite valuable to me to keep such a list since it's a somewhat raw source of child-like curiosity that I don't want to loose.
- What makes a good puzzle/mystery in a video game?
- When is a challenge in a video game fun or frustrating?
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When should one be sad? Is there a reason to keep the feeling of sadness around? -
The soft expiry date of everything How things get old to us and we always need something different to get to that same high. Is there a point where one can have experienced everything and nothing's engaging anymore? -
The Base of Balance “How most, if not all in life, needs a balance between two extremes” -
The Feeling of Time How different timeframes feel different, like how 10 minutes to me feel shorter while 30 minutes feel longer than they actually seem to be -
How should I handle specific fears about stuff that rarely happens - Dog bites
- Someone breaking into my home while I'm still in here
- How much should one be afraid and prep themselves for it?
- General prep of reserve money and ability to take a break without one's life falling apart
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Supressing emotions - What exactly does that mean?
- Is it something viable?
- The contradiction of mom telling me that I should be allowed to cry, but also sometimes telling me to just bite the bullet and do something I don't want to do.
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Dealing with emotions you don't want to have - Envy (I fear reacting snappy out of instinct/emotion)
- Unwanted attraction towards people
- Annoyance and Anger
- How should I handle feelings & emotions?
- How do I memorize things? How can I improve my memory?
- Hopelessness and suicidality
- How should I handle the horribleness of the world? Is the world doomed?
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What is love? - How can people stay in relationships for a long time? Wouldn't there be no more topics to talk about after a while?
- Is love not just the feeling of love? Do the feelings come and go in waves, and the challenge is sticking through it when it's tough?
- Or does love need a solid baseline of an always good feeling when being around one another?
- Loosing the fear of death
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Morbid impulses Why do I have them? How to best ignore them? -
What are the things that will ruin your life if you don't do them regularly? Brushing teeth, good eating, good moving, sleep -
Posture What's the right way to sit, stand? -
Sports When should I stop exerting myself? Should sports hurt? How much so? Do I need running shoes? -
Multitasking in dancing How do dancers learn how to perform multiple unintuitive actions at the same time? I can only focus on one movement at a time and fail when I try adding some movement on top. This inability to multitask is the same with some drumming patterns. -
Speedruns What makes them so alluring? Certain mindsets (like not resetting a run despite failing a bit) . The one YouTube comment about how life back then was a no hit run similar to speedruns, where a few fails could mean the end. It's like a quest to turn into a machine that can perform frame-perfect inputs. -
Basics for taking in advice A list of steps that would be good to do before listening to someone else's view in life. How to adapt advice for yourself. - How should I deal with bad automatic / intrusive thoughts (or bad habits)?
From the scrapped section in misc
- The Tug of War
- How to interpret emotions
- Hopelessness and suicidality
- Religion and devotion
- Retaining information, reminding
- Pressure
- Politics
- How should one see it?
- How emotions don’t really listen to words (from my experience)
- Intuition vs. Procedure
- Intuitively knowing how to speak
- The gap between the goal (the ungraspable way of how we can talk) and how we get there with simplified stuff, like teaching grammar.
- Lost Places
- Memes and Jokes
- Mysteries
- Not wanting to face the next day
- Notifications
- Fluctuating motivation
- Emotions consume you.
- Emotes, and how they convey tone
- Feeling empty, or the feeling of “the Void”
- Dealing with emotions you don’t want to have
- Envy (I fear reacting snappy out of instinct/emotion)
- Overly attracted to girls
- Annoyance and Anger
- Do mosquitoes have a right to exist?
- Lying as a way to control others
- Composure, confidence and keeping it all cool and under control
- Breaks, and how they often don’t work for me
- At the end of a successful break, I’ve thought about a way to continue and feel good enough to implement it. This is not the case most of the time.
- My concepts
- The (constant) Conflict of Choice
- An everpresent conflict starting with what your goals in life are and that invades everything you do permanently
- Being able to focus
- How do you do that? What is focus?
- My problem with continued thinking about something. Mind always wandering
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just sitting and ignoring thoughts might help?
- Addiction
(Food, porn) - Habits
- Repeatedly choosing to do something at a certain interval
- There are things that repeatedly prevent/motivate you to do something at a specific decision point
- I constantly don’t want to shower when being at that decision point (pretty much constantly)
- I often eat when I feel bad. I always have the option of eating unhealthy, but it only comes to mind then