Until you do, you are probably wasting a lot of your time — When Patrick Bet-David, main host of the Valuetainment Youtube channel (4.06M subscriber), decided a while back to spin off a podcast off of the channel, I was ecstatic. Ever since then—and I kid you not, I’ve listened to practically every single episodes of the podcasts. That is, every single episodes…

From Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield — Writing is probably one of the most difficult things one can do. …

On reaching Mastery, based on Robert Greene’s Mastery book. — As I’m reading through the book Mastery by Robert Greene, I came across a passage that spurred my curiosity to one of the most intense it’s ever been. The massage said the following: This unseen element that constitutes the animal’s entire experience … can be called various things. To the…

Sharing out the best meta-thinking tools I’ve learned this past year. — If you’re anything like me, you think A LOT. Maybe too much. I overanalyze everything, and what comes with overanalyzing everything is being slow and frozen a lot of the time. …

Top 2 out of 11 books, and 4 honorable mentions. — This past year I read a total of 11 books. While it’s not many, I only read books that I actually wanted to read, and I chose books that would help me learn something new and useful in my life. So, I asked myself, amongst those books if I could…

Lessons from The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt — Over the past few days, I’ve been reading The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. Chapter 7 titled “The Uses ofAdversity” was mind blowing. We Need (Some) Adversity A few years ago, my friend Denny and I were arguing about whether suffering is important. I remember using the following logical argument: Death is the greatest…

It’s the most natural thing, so why be afraid to do it? — On one my early birthdays, perhaps when I turned 11 or 12, I asked my dad for money so I could get myself a gift. Upon receiving the money, I asked him for more. “It’s my birthday after all!”, I thought. To that, my dad replied, “You are not modest”. …

A reminder for myself… — I wrote my first blog on medium, Designing A Calculator with FSM Logic, on April 3, 2018. That feels like an eternity! Back then, I was in my sophomore spring of college and definitely wasn’t who I am today. …

You should too. — The following is an excerpt from The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Appendix 1 How to Do CBT Sometimes people who wish to practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) find therapists who train them in techniques for diagnosing and then altering their distorted thought patterns. In other cases, they simply read…