August went by so fast, just like I was riding a roller coaster.

Today’s to-do:

  • Summary of August
  • Read books
  • Study HTML and CSS
  • Fill out attendance sheet

🙄 09:45 Used GPT to generate some ridiculous pictures

📝 10:30 Summarized my August and started today’s downtime

📖 Started reading The Attention Merchants Chapter 11

Notes:

Great tech oaks have always grown from little acorns.

Consent is not always a simple matter, legally or philosophically. And willpower always figures into the complications.

The successful philosophers were also advertisers who could sell their new models of the universe to large numbers of others, thus converting thought to action, mind to matter.

Desire’s most natural endpoint is consumption.

If you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them.

As a mode of production, capitalism is a perfect chameleon; it has no disabling convictions but profit and so can cater to any desire, even those inimical to it.

🏁 10:00 Made a training plan for my partner to help her finish her first 7k race run

🖱️ 14:00 Fixed the picture by changing the model’s clothes

🔍 14:30 Looked for CV templates for my partner

📖 15:20 Finished reading The Attention Merchants Chapter 12

😪 Felt sleepy

🖥️ 16:50 Finished learning HTML and wrote Stady Log #5

📖 Started to read So Good They Can’t Ignore You Chapter 1 & 2

Notes:

The conventional wisdom on career success—follow your passion—is seriously flawed.

You need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.

It’s good to enjoy what you do.

I feel like your problem is that you’re trying to judge all things in the abstract before you do them. That’s your tragic mistake.

Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.

Conclusion #1: Career Passions Are Rare

Conclusion #2: Passion Takes Time
A job, in Wrzesniewski’s formulation, is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path toward increasingly better work, and a calling is work that’s an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.

Conclusion #3: Passion Is a Side Effect of Mastery

SDT(Self-Determination Theory) tells us that motivation, in the workplace or elsewhere, requires that you fulfill three basic psychological needs—factors described as the “nutriments” required to feel intrinsically motivated for your work:

  1. Autonomy: the feeling that you have control over your day, and that your actions are important
  2. Competence: the feeling that you are good at what you do
  3. Relatedness: the feeling of connection to other people

Working right trumps finding the right work.

💭 I think this book will help me change my perspective on my career.

🤩 Found some interesting blogs and read some blog posts

Summary of my August:

  • Participated in TOMI Lab reunion
  • Visited OSAKA EXPO 2025
  • Received my TOEIC score sheet and got 765
  • Watched the Summer Koshien finals live on my computer with my partner
  • Went to a BLEACH event and was placed in the 5th Division

  • Finally accepted by CMX and almost update my real life every day

  • 19 workouts including running, keiko and suburi on my balcony
  • Wrote 27 blog posts
  • Completed 3 books
    • 金钱心理学
    • Between Us
    • The First 20 Hours
  • Finished watching 2 dramas and 1 anime
    • The Big Bang Theory seasons 1-3
    • The Crown Season 1
    • カラオケ行こ！

  • Played some Nintendo games with my partner

  • Started studying for IT passport certification

  • Started learning HTML and CSS with a book

  • Read books almost every day
  • Memorized English and Korean every day
  • Keep recording time
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