I leapt out of bed at 7am this morning, wondering what had just happened. My body, surprisingly, is fine. Blistered, marathoned feet, aching trapezius muscles aside, my mutant healing powers must have took care of the rest. My mind, on the other hand, was suspicious. For the past 10 days I’ve survived on 4 to [...]
How many promises have you made in your lifetime? Promises to yourself. Promises to your boss. Your mother. Your friends. What if you have kept them all? How would your world be today? How many promises do we make, both knowingly, and unknowingly. Because when you think about it… you’re not the one making promises… [...]
How much time do you need to finish this? How much attention do you need to finish this? How much sleep do you need to feel fresh? How much rest do you need to feel fresh? Just like how time is so different from attention, I feel rest and sleep have a related, important distinction, [...]
From an award winning ad campaign in India… the ad copy is quite relevant to Malaysia’s political scene too.
I was alone one night, in deep thought… I was wondering what I would learn by going through a selection of 213 quotes on “action”. The one thing I personally took away? The need for consistency and continuous effort. Not revolutionary, I know. But it hints at me quite accurately, as I’ve spent the most [...]
What are the top 3 activities you enjoy? I realize I have been spending most of my life chasing the activities I enjoy. And this really paved the path I have followed thus far. If only I enjoyed different activities, I would be a completely different person today. So here’s my hypothesis: If you want [...]
The author of my favorite online comic, Wondermark!, shares some reflections on his life’s focus… Nearly a year on, I’m finding myself turning down work-for-hire gigs more and more often so I can have time to focus on the comic and other personal projects. Like Tuesday’s comic expressed (in a fashion), I don’t want to [...]
Don’t let this be you.
In day-to-day contexts, I notice negotiation, persuasion, and strategy has so much more to do with emotions, and not as much to do with logic and reason. And I thought humans were “rational”. I had to learn this the hard way, losing badly in board games like Risk, Imperial, Monopoly, and mafia In the future, [...]
Lately, a few write-ups and incidents have left me feeling somewhat ahead of myself. Pretentious. I’m not suggesting that the recent publicity/ newspaper write-ups etc have been misleading. Not at all… You see, I am a small fry gunning for big dreams. Not some big shot. However, due to the unconventional fashion of “my work”, [...]