Don’t give in to irrational guilt. It’s not “either-or”. It’s “yes, and”. — I was responding to a Twitter comment about how success was rarely achieved solely through either hard work or luck. It’s usually a combination of both. …

So they don’t settle for misery — My poor mother was raised with a lacking mindset. She now suffers from BPD. Not that these two things have a direct causation relationship, but the correlation is strong. If I need to give a personal example of Maslow’s pyramid, this story would be it. Mother married Dad, mostly driven…

DO NOT BEAT YOURSELVES UP. Then gently pick up ONE simple good habit. — You have been feeling stressed. You can barely think straight when it comes to personal matters for about two weeks now. Therapy sessions become more like band-aids on your leaking sanity than actually making any progress on healing. You don’t even know what to answer when asked by your most…

“I am the type of person who holds on to my resentment really tight. I would be like ‘I am so right!’.” The memory of Anna Runkle tightening up her fists as she talked about what her Daily Practice was for — wiping off leaves on our mind’s windshield —…

I think i gradually figure out WHY I haven't encountered situations in which content-first approach was not used by me. In my field of trade, visual communication is the primary aspect of our products (mobile games). The visual hierarchy on a screen, where players' attention is drawn to and thus…

The ways you treat things you love manifest the ways you treat everything important in your life — Recently I fell in love with organizing my bookshelf and applying adhesive book covers on some of my favorites. I started to “un-dogear” many of them — I used to use dog-ears as bookmarks for quick access to pages that had content I resonated with. Ironically, I rarely re-read books…

How visualizing the emotions during “emotional flashbacks” helped enlighten the root cause in my subconscious — I managed to reply to this guy friend when I saw his message. I had a physical reaction when I saw the snippet of his message on my phone: repulsion. No, it had nothing to do with him as a person. …

Feel the warmth that you miss but is always there to support you — Loneliness, this overbearing, powerful human emotion used to dominate my waking hours during some of the late nights. I felt utterly isolated, even though I just chatted with my loved ones a few minutes ago. …

A soul’s journey of trying to find meaning in its existence before dissolving — I remember the time when I binge-watched Netflix for 6 hours straight to run away from the reality I was in. I kept hitting the “next episode” button partially because the series was exquisitely made (The Umbrella Academy, anyone?), …