{"id":4411,"date":"2012-02-15T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:36:53","slug":"how-would-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/15\/how-would-you-live\/","title":{"rendered":"How would you live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a great question to ask is- what sort of life would you (or do you!) envision for yourself if money weren&#8217;t an issue? What kind of life would you design for yourself?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually see myself living in incredible luxury with cars and a huge mansion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I see myself writing a lot.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself playing music.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself leading a significant tribe of people that matter to me, and together, we matter to the world.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself helping people think for themselves, helping them become self-sufficient.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself travelling a lot- not as a tourist, but as a pilgrim.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself building powerful social systems that transcend bullshit.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself happy, laughing, surrounded by friends and loved ones, respected and admired by adversaries for my elegance and my ceaseless offer of kinship.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself humbled by minds greater than my own, by processes greater than myself.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself shaping Singaporean culture- and global culture- for the better, boosting the signals that better our species.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself empowering others at multiple levels, across multiple scales.<\/li>\n<li>I see myself building a life that is greater than myself, that goes on beautifully without me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trick question, really, because money was never the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a great question to ask is- what sort of life would you (or do you!) envision for yourself if money weren&#8217;t an issue? What kind of life would you design for yourself? I don&#8217;t actually see myself living in incredible luxury with cars and a huge mansion. I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,748],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-intentions","tag-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-199","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10084,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}