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On Losing the Battle against Resistance

miaijita · November 13, 2018November 13, 2018

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit ― Steven Pressfield I was just reading the first few pages of the War of Art on my way home from work. I had a plan to go to a German Toastmaster meeting afterward, and i could feel the resistance was crawling in. Good thing that i was reading …

On Money

miaijita · July 19, 2018November 10, 2018

I noticed that the most successful people that i admire share one thing in common: they do the things they do, never for money, always for love. That’s a foreign concept to me. Being raised in a third world country, i was always taught the importance of money. My mom grew up very poor and …

On Giving

miaijita · July 18, 2018November 10, 2018

Took me a while for this to finally sinked in: What you give to the world is what the world gives to you All of these times i operated with the formula: “Give, Get, Give, Get, Get” and it did not work so well. I suffered because after i gave, i expected to get. And …

On Helping Others

miaijita · July 17, 2018July 17, 2018

There was a job vacancy in my office and i knew someone who was also looking for one. I, however, doubted her abilities in doing the job as i never work with her before. Therefore i felt reluctant to even recommend her for the position. I was chatting with a friend about this topic. I …

On Tiny Habits

miaijita · July 15, 2018July 15, 2018

I have been trying to build good habits lately and somehow i failed most of the times. It always started strong the first few days, and just went downhill afterward. Sucks. I bumped into this Ted talk by BJ Fogg yesterday and a lightbulb went off in my head. I remember saying to myself “Aha, this …

Hello Berlin!

miaijita · March 1, 2018January 4, 2021

Or should i say, Hallo Berlin! May 3rd 2016: I boarded my Qatar Airlines flight to Berlin. I’d just quit my job in Singapore and decided to have a break from 9 – 5 grind. My initial plan was to stay in Berlin for a couple of months, to pick up a German language course, …