In order to challenge your thinking, you have to work with associations. Take a random word and think of everything you associate with. From there on, articulate what you think about these associations. Which feelings and memories arise from them?

This is the key element of this new section of my blog. After pondering quite a while over possible topics for articles, I will let myself be inspired by random words and the associations they spike.

To do this, I make use of the Dictionary.com “Word of the Day” RSS feed available here. Dictionary.com supplies the feed readers with new words every day – usually words that are outside of the lexicon of colloquial language. This leaves me with two advantages – I explore and widen my knowledge on a myriad of topics and memorize new and unusual words that may better my writing

So watch out for (near-)daily updates in this section. There occasionally will be breaks due to lack of internet access but normally, every day will bring a new splash of thoughts.

Comments are highly appreciated – as usual

In love for life
Simon

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