Universe Explorer

I do not present these activities as professional competencies, achievements, or unfinished attempts at specialization. My path was not about the narrow accumulation of skill in a single domain, but about an exploratory movement through different environments, experiences, and cognitive states. A person can use activities not as a career vector, but as a way to test their own reactions to different types of physical, social, and mental load; to understand how other people live, train, think, and find motivation; to gain sensory, social, and cognitive experience; to expand their model of the world; and to search not for efficiency, but for diversity of states, perspectives, and contexts.

The goal was not necessarily to become a boxer, musician, sailor, dancer, rider, diver, artist, or specialist in any strict sense. It was to live through different forms of human activity, to feel them from the inside, to observe how perception changes when the context changes, and to explore the boundaries of my own personality, body, interests, and reactions. This is closer to the model of a generalist or explorer than to that of a specialist.

In this sense, the phrase "I was exploring the universe through human activities" describes the idea precisely. I used different practices as interfaces to different layers of reality and human experience: body, technique, discipline, coordination, fear, risk, pleasure, creativity, attention, culture, and social roles. The fact that I did not turn most of these activities into serious long-term specializations does not make the experience meaningless. It means that the result was not a single professional identity, but a broad interdisciplinary map, a capacity to enter new systems quickly, an ability to notice connections between domains, and a strong exploratory drive rather than an exploitative fixation.

In cognitive terms, this corresponds to the distinction between exploration and exploitation. Exploitation means going deeper into one already chosen direction; exploration means searching through new spaces of possibility, experience, and models of the world. Both strategies are valid. They simply produce different kinds of outcomes. For me, the common thread was not specialization, but exploration: using human activities as temporary gateways into different ways of being, perceiving, learning, and understanding the world from the inside.

#Activities

Combat & martial arts — boxing, BJJ, army hand-to-hand combat.

Shooting — clay, target.

On the water — scuba diving, freediving, swimming lessons, yacht regatta, sailing yacht skipper license, Laser dinghy lessons.

Riding — motorcycle, horseback, scooter.

Racquet sports — tennis, table tennis.

Dance — salsa, bachata.

Voice & music — vocal lessons, piano lessons.

Visual art — acrylic painting, pencil drawing, iconography.

Stage & craft — theatre group, pottery class.