PROMPT: Negative Feelings

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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

Sakshi Bhavan, the dispassionate witness, giving feelings one’s full attention without allowing rumination that compounds the effect.

Not technically a strategy, but I think it’s on point.

PROMPT: Lose Yourself

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What activities do you lose yourself in?

Reading, walking, writing, swimming, thinking, and epic rap battles. You’ve only got one shot…

PROMPT: Movies or TV Series

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What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Hustle, and The Matrix. Together, they contain the sum of all wisdom.

PROMPT: Superstitious

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Are you superstitious?

Nah. I’d say I’m normal-stitious, possibly even substitious.

PROMPT: Animal

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Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?

The Platypus. A motley assortment of elements with unexpectedly poor flight characteristics that yet can thrive in multiple environments.

PROMPT: 100-year-old

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Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Dear Dust,

Congratulations. You will now have made it to more countries than I did in life. I’m jealous.

Yours truly,

You (but Hydrated & Animated)

PROMPT: Spree

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Where would you go on a shopping spree?

I’m not a fan of the “spree.” I don’t like a shopping spree and I don’t like a murder spree and I really don’t like a shopping mall shopping / murder spree.

PROMPT: Middle Name

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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

el matador. No significance whatsoever.

PROMPT: Last Thing

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What is the last thing you learned?

To think of lifting weights as a means of injury prevention, rather than just a means to build strength or power. I picked up this perspective reading Santino DeFranco’s “Fight Ready” (https://wp.me/p1jv7k-fiK.) I haven’t been a fan of weights for many years now and have long preferred yoga, calisthenics, and other (more minimalist) practices, but I can see the scalability advantage of weights as a means to build a robust body.

Although, I hope this prompt uses “last” in the sense of “most recent,” because I very much hope that I am far from — and couldn’t possibly predict — the last (as in “final”) thing I will have learned.

PROMPT: One Question

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What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

Would you mind performing coronary revascularization surgery?

Yes, I mind. I’m not a doctor. I have no training whatsoever.