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At some point in life, I no longer think the knowledge we gain in school matters. What matters more is how we view and process life experiences, which I will call a “life algorithm.” Recently, I’ve realized that I feel stuck with my own life algorithm. I had been holding onto the belief that I…

As I reach my thirties, I feel that chances of climbing up the social ladders are very slim. I know luck still plays a role, but it feels too distant to feel tangible. I am also skeptical about the passion or grit, because the simple act of trying is no longer granted as freely as…

Social anxiety is like a fake nametag that you put on at a silly party. Instead of Peter, your name is now Pipi. People would get a big laugh or two, and the nametag is supposed to come off, but for some reason, no matter how much you scratch it after the party, only bits…

When I was a kid, I frequently exceled at many things despite the actual time put into them whether it was playing instruments, doing math problems, or playing games. I was never the top but I always performed better than expected. It almost felt like a magic power gifted to me from birth. However, as…

Times are hard. When things don’t go according to plan, we stumble. We can feel instinctively that if life extrapolates from the current graph, we only have downhill to walk about. Self images that we’ve built for so long are constantly being attacked by external world. We need to change. However, how do we change…

I think honesty is probably the best approach to treat someone in a long-term environment like workplace. I’ve encountered companies that follow words from best-selling books too closely: “Okay, I am going to put a small gift on my employee’s table everyday so they will become grateful and loyal to the company,” “I will forgive…

Lets imagine you come back from work, feeling extremely tired and sad, possibly from an unfair treatment by your supervisor at work. You sigh every minute, and upon entering your own dark room, you close the curtain and barely summon enough energy to turn on a tiny yellow light attached to your bed frame. You…

Being rich from not being rich seems to involve a lot of luck. I am excluding those who were exceptional since they were kids or live in a “rich” environment. If they are not rich yet, they will soon be because they already have gold mines that can be dug anytime. I am talking about…

I think, to achieve a big thing, I should be less distracted. I see people around me, and the ones that achieved something noble were less distracted overall. When I say distracted, I do not mean by merely playing games when supposed to be studying. I am talking about more subtle, but detrimental things. Social…