(This post is meant to be satire. I have a day job running formcrafts.com). More people are online than ever before. More people are desperate than ever before. Learn how to use that 👇 Is this the right course for me? Good question. My courses are NOT for everyone. You need to be a good [ ]
The Wealth You Accumulate Let s rule out the obvious contender. My younger self s answer to what I want to be when I grow up was, the richest man in the world. Money helps provide basic necessities but does little beyond that. Verdict: Bad measure. The Places You Travel I want my life to be [ ]
Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in Star Trek, the goal being to rescue a civilian vessel in a simulated battle with the Klingons. In the 2009 movie Kirk beats the test. Spock accuses Kirk of cheating, and then reveals that the test is meant to be a no-win scenario. Kobayashi Maru wasn t a test [ ]
To Kill a Mockingbird The grim Alabama of Harper Lee s book was an alien world for the 16-year-old me, but the sheet beauty of her words made it feel like learning about new colors. To Kill a Mockingbird remains the most moving book I have ever read. It taught me something I have come to [ ]
1. Caffeine and Phone I used to drink 2 3 cups of coffee a day, spread out between 10 am and 6pm. I decided to give up caffeine. It worked for 5 days. I was soon back at drinking coffee but I now restrict myself to one cup (or less) and always before 2pm. [ ]
1. Travel is a way to grow. It is not the Answer to life. Travel puts you out of your comfort zone. The world become a dark, mysterious place like it was in your childhood. You meet a lot of doe-eyed people who left their cushy jobs and cut off ties to follow an oversaturated [ ]
I always thought that life is a sum of happiness. Our task, simply, is to try and be as happy as possible. Here is an excerpt from Brave New World, an amazing book I read recently: But I don t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I [ ]
Do you remember the summer you first fell in love? That sweet, painful agony of confused feelings that threatened to storm your 14-year old self? She made you a Byron. She made you a Bowie. She left you an arrow-struck fawn in a cold dark forest. You were different after that. David Copperfield was the [ ]
It happens all too often: we find something that makes us happy, and then we get used to it, and the happiness we derive from it wanes over time. What if happiness isn’t a state of being (holding the object that makes us happy), but rather a transition from one state to another (acquisition of [ ]
It’s often hard to describe what cities are like when you don’t go to tourist attractions. The more I travel, the more I find myself comparing cities to people. Paris is a well-groomed middle-aged gentleman you would see at a black-tie event. He tells you about his artistic talents and business prowess, and wants you [ ]