Category: Personal Development
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A Short Pause in Oman
This trip was a reminder that you don’t need grand plans or Instagram-worthy itineraries to have a good time. Sometimes it’s enough to walk slowly, eat well, cancel things without guilt, and read a quiet book that mirrors the trip itself.
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Eat, Pray, Work in Bali
Three weeks of yoga, meditation, work, and spontaneous adventures. Unlike Malaysia, where solitude defined my days, Bali was all about movement, connection, and rediscovering what felt good. It wasn’t about escaping, it was about finding a new rhythm.
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A Solitary Birthday in Malaysia
This wasn’t my first solo trip, not even close. I’ve spent years traveling alone, eating at restaurants by myself, exploring new cities without needing company. But there’s something about spending your birthday alone in a foreign city that feels different. Not necessarily bad, just… noticeable.
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Reflections from the Annapurna Base Camp Trek
After hours of walking through lush forests, across suspension bridges, and along winding mountain paths, I found myself completely immersed in the natural world of the Himalayas.
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Nairobi Through My Lens
What sets Nairobi apart isn’t one singular feature but the confluence of many. The city itself may not dazzle you with standout attractions, but it captures the essence of Africa beautifully. It’s the mix of modern food, affable locals, ease of transport, distinct culture, and abundant nature that makes Nairobi an ideal place to be.
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the past week. Mihaly is a Hungarian-American psychologist known for his work in positive psychology, happiness, creativity, and flow theory. I’ve been reading about being in Flow for a while, which is defined as a state of mind in…
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Why Is Self-Education So Hard?
When we talk about self-education, we can’t miss the impressive genius, Leonardo Da Vinci. A master artist, anatomist, engineer, scientist, biologist, and experimenter. He never received formal education beyond basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, but continued to learn much more himself. Imagine self-education in the late 1400s. No on-demand courses. No Google. No access to…
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Feeding Your Curiosities
After meditating this morning, my phone beeped with a Google Photos throwback of my weekend trip to the Brahma Kumaris Centre for Spiritual Learning 3 years ago in the Blue Mountains region, an hour away from Sydney. Sitting cross-legged and wrapped in my comfy blanket, I reminisced on the gorgeous views of the valley, the…
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Taking Control Of Your Learning
Let’s be honest: our education system sucks. It works on a cookie-cutter approach; the same style is used without due consideration to individual differences. One, we are taught things that we might never use in real life and the things that might come handy are rarely taught; and two we are not taught to learn…
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Reading 100 pages a day
While listening to the Tim Ferris Show with Brandon Stanton (founder of Humans of New York), Brandon talks about his life before pursuing photography; purposeless, and not happy with what he was doing. In the quest to find meaning, he committed to reading 100 pages per day, mostly biographies. He believes biographies are the “best…