The Covid-19 pandemic has shook the entire world, it changed everything. Suddenly we cannot be in crowds, even being in proximity with other people becomes dangerous. During this time I think all of us spent months or even the entire year at...
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If you are reading this, then you are among the lucky few blessed with this thing called life. It can be beautiful, scary, sad, funny and a million other things, but what it is most of the time, is overwhelming. Most of us spend every day busy...
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference
-Robert Frost-
Since I’ve taken an unorthodox approach to life since I was born, there’s been so many experiences that I’ve been through, I...
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Language defines how we perceive and interact with everything and everyone. The ability to form sentences that impart complex meanings is one of the reasons for our species’ success. When you want to travel or live abroad, language is one of the...
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“Talent is a pursued interest, anything you are willing to practice, you can do.” – Bob Ross
This is a good quote from the amazing Bob Ross, but I think there’s a difference between talent and skill. Talent is an innate gift that allows you to do...
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Recently, my household has a new addition to the family in the form of a puppy. My mom wanted us to have another dog to accompany our old dog and because puppies are cute. Like almost all dogs in my country, we’re not really sure of what the...
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I recently found this lecture by Alan Watts and I found it to be very inspiring.
What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?
I do this often in vocational guidance for students, they come to me and say...
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The coronavirus pandemic that’s been affecting us this past year and a half has changed a lot about our lives, almost every established system has been forced to adapt to this new normal. One of the most important system that underwent change was...
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One of the most important skills to have, whatever you may do in life, is discipline. And it’s definitely the number one thing I need to work on for myself. All my life I’ve relied on spur of the moment motivation to help me complete tasks and...
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It has been a while since I’ve written anything that I didn’t have to. Every so often my father would ask me to write again, since it used to be a good habit of mine back at school. But when you’ve stopped doing something for a long time, it’s...
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Nobody tells people who are beginners, is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.
But there’s a gap.
For the first couple of years what you’re making isn’t so good, it’s trying to be good, it has the...
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There is a famous metaphysical thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. Theseus himself is a figure in greek mythology, a hero who adventured throughout the world before he became the king of Athens. He did many great deeds, but we are here...
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What was the loudest sound ever heard in history? Well, most Indonesians are probably familiar with the volcano island of Krakatau, or Krakatoa as it's known in the rest of the world. But I don’t think many of us actually realize that the...
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“Language is the foundation of civilization, it is the glue that holds people together, it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”
Arrival is a science fiction movie released in 2016. I think I watched it in the theatre with some friends, but...
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“Reason is the slave of passion”
David Hume was an influential 18th century philosopher/historian who is famous for his works developing the early forms of skepticism, empiricism, and inductive reasoning. He was influenced by great thinkers...
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