Category: Life
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On Relationships: Trust, Authenticity, and Communication
What makes or breaks a relationship? This is what I have learnt and come to believe.
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Someday you will miss today… (SNOTM)
Stuff No-one Told Me features comics that you might enjoy if you’re striving to make sense of life like their author Alex Noriega. Here’s my favourite one:
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The Virtues of Boredom: An Interview (The Atlantic)
A reflective interview with Mary Mann about the virtues of boredom
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What Is Trust?
In my university admissions examination in 2009, I was asked whether I thought trust was the foundation of human society. My answer was yes, and my reasoning was that it is a necessary – though not sufficient – condition for relationships and economic transactions. Looking back, I realise that my answer was fundamentally flawed. I…
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Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist (TED)
A beautifully told story and an inspiring testament to the power of human empathy: She looked at me with the weary eyes of someone who had experienced enough dogmatism to last a lifetime, and said, “I’m tired of hating people.”
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Say ‘Yes’
… to new experiences. You never know what you’re going to learn. About yourself, about the world around you. Get out of your comfort zone. Put yourself out there. You never know what you will find. Be open to new experiences. So you can make new mistakes, meet new friends, learn new lessons. Your life…
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)
… it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.
Val Saksornchai 