If you think I’m brave writing so honestly…
read this: I Would Like You to Know My Name
23 Apr 11
Life lessons discovered today
- Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy (yea he kills elephants but whatever he says here makes good sense): "Robert, they can't eat you!" My rules for success in business and life in general.
- Tina Su: 31 Life Lessons in 31 Years (am amused that this came out shortly after I wrote my turning 30 post. The wonders of synchronicity.)
5 Apr 11
Demystifying Depression
Great writeup on depression – a detailed explanation of the illness. It is not "all in the mind" as perceived.
25 Mar 11
Links on happiness
Both published synchronistically on the same day:
20 Dec 10
6 Oct 10
In Praise of Quitting Your Job
Ben Pieratt writes a comforting email to a friend who was depressed about work. Having been a serial quitter myself before I was self-employed, I can totally empathise with this.
29 Sep 10
Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Galser
"This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realised that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection. I am talking about a client and you sharing some common ground. That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with the client, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle."
25 Sep 10
The price of Singapore’s success
While I really feel like writing my own thoughts on Singapore's economic success – the success that is paid for at a hefty price – I have loads to pack before my moving next week, thus am gonna link these two articles as food for thought:
21 Jul 10
On having absolute faith in the universe’s integrity
While facing life-changing decisions these couple of years, I came to the conclusion that I will just learn to trust the Universe, that if I intend all my actions for the good to the best of my capacity, the Universe will cater for me in its own way. It is interesting to stumble across this blog post that describes the beliefs/worldview of Buckminster Fuller, who went through a suicidal/depressive/penniless period (sounds familiar) before realising the quoted below, and then "wrote more than thirty books, created numerous design and architectural inventions, was awarded more than twenty five patents, held over forty eight honorary doctorates, and traveled the world lecturing and teaching."
If one attends to the problems of humanity and commits oneself to solving them, the universe will care for that person the same way it cares for a flower or a bird. So he committed himself to working on the bigger tasks of the world on the absolute faith that the universe’s integrity will pay him back. His philosophy was that changing the world does not occur through preaching or social reforms, but through artifacts that solve the existing challenges of humanity.
From: Every man dies, but not every man lives
6 Jul 10
We are What We Choose
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, delivers this inspiring speech to Princeton University's class of 2010.
My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, "Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."
