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A slow but simple way to make a good living
If you have no money or no idea to start a business or to become the next Facebook, here’s how you can still make a lot of money: With only you and your computer, you can become a millionaire one day, if you want to. I’m not kidding. How: Provide a service people need. But […]
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Reputation or Money
A quote by Warren Buffet: If you lose money for the firm I will be understanding. If you lose reputation I will be ruthless. When you have no money you assume that money is more important. What would you need a good reputation for if you cannot even feed yourself? A good reputation is for […]
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Who are short-cuts made for?
“This desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men… When people learn – I doubt they will – that they can’t get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in great harmony.” – Joseph Weil (The […]
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Don’t ask children what they want to be when they grow up
When you are little, words you say have little consequence. You could say anything and get away with it. So I wrote down ‘teacher.’ I didn’t actually want to be a teacher but I didn’t know what else to write. I didn’t know how other jobs were like. I looked at my […]
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How broken are you?
We each took a seat at the table. In front of us, food for ten. But there would only be six people eating that night. It was 27th of January 2017, or what Chinese families called chu xi. The day before the first day of Chinese New Year. The dinner of chu xi […]
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to understand love
to understand love, you must first experience loss, not the kind that makes you feel a little unhappy, like losing a book you liked, or having something eaten something you reserved for yourself, no, not that kind. but that of losing something you felt you could not live without, like air, at once you were […]
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Have You Ever Asked Yourself ‘Why?’
‘Mom, I think I want to quit uni,’ I told my mother. At 21, I began to feel the dullness of uni. I was a third-year student in chemical engineering with an idea of doing something else with my life. I felt bored with the dry and impractical topics in class. While my classmates paid […]
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2016 Year in Review (and 50+ Rules to Live by in 2017)
Around the same time last year I wrote the review post for 2015. But if you even try to go back and find it, you won’t. I didn’t publish it. I couldn’t publish it. I meant to, but I couldn’t. It was full of my mistakes. Mistakes I felt you would unfriend me for. So […]
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How To Ruin Your Life Forever
I was 17 years old. Sat in my Biology class that Saturday afternoon when I received the worst news in my life. Along with 11 other classmates, I waited for the results of my second Biology test in my first year of A-levels. A few students were called first. Then my lecturer turned to me […]
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Rules I Try to Stick With Daily
Whenever I meet people I like, or people who have accomplished what I want to accomplish, I ask myself, ‘What are they doing everyday that I am not?’ I’ve been asking that question for more than a decade now and here is my list: