The experience of being exiled … to one’s birth country
#16 The Exile Experience
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Life
#15 The Curve
People that come to someplace to stay to live, work, or both have the same thing happen, but they don’t leave. And this is where the CURVE shows itself. Because after the initial enthusiasm of the “The Peak”, comes the valley.
#14 Embedded Vs. Nomad
I was speaking with one of my close friends, and we started talking about being embedded in a location versus being a nomad. I feel it is germane to being a TCK, a minimalist, and/or, a digital nomad.
#13 Being Multi-Local
I am a local. I am multi-local: I am or have been a local of London, Lahore, Dacca, New Delhi, Kuwait City, Dhahran, Manila, Bangkok, Pattaya, Tokyo, Salt Lake City, Evanston (Wyoming), Istanbul, Saigon, Hong Kong, Toronto, Freetown, Addis Ababa, Singapore. It seems like a lot but it’s kind of a blur.
#12 Magic Time
However probably the one that I have enjoyed the most is the concept of ‘magic time’. I have consciously changed my schedule so that I now wake up generally between 4 – 430 a.m. every day.
#11 TCK Blind Spot
… It really hit me. I have a serious blind spot as a TCK. And I think I’ve had it my whole life, and it has unwittingly gotten me into trouble many times.
#7 Losing Touch – The story of a serial ex-pat
As part of my minimalism kick, over the last year or so I have been going through what few mementos I still had. Most of my keepsakes burned up in a storage unit fire in the year 1999 – lost everything from my childhood and the military and family (very liberating in a way). But I still had stuff that I carried with me.
#4 No silver bullet?
It comes from the fact, in western (European) cultures and mythology primarily, that a silver bullet is the one thing needed to kill supernatural creatures, mainly werewolves. From that it grew into a way of speaking about a simple solution to difficult or intractable problems. E.g. “I may have a silver bullet for this problem.”
#2 Finding your tribe
Although I understand and really identify with the idea of a tribe … I remember from a podcast somebody, I believe Seth Godin, talking about finding the smallest number of people that you can have a positive impact on. I have yet to find that tribe, although I have a good idea of where to start looking.