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movies
i love movies i think there’s a certain mystery behind every movie who wrote the script? how did they get the idea? how did the actors/actresses interpret the script? how did the director convey the message? editor? music? stage crew? everyone plays a part in making a movie it’s a team effort, using skills from Continue reading
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Genuine Happiness
I think I can genuinely say I am at the happiest point in my life right now And not because I am exorbitantly happy–no, I fully expect myself to experience higher points of happiness. I am happy because I see myself going up. Up this rollercoaster called life, and up towards something I don’t even Continue reading
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Asking the wrong questions
I’ve recently pondered the potential of being a philosopher But my economic and business brain nevertheless reared its head and started questioning this decision: how can I make a living (particularly a wealthy living) while calling myself a philosopher? I was pleasantly slapped with the realization that a true philosopher is not so much worried about creating Continue reading
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excited
Past two weeks I’ve been quite stressed out about life about education vocation career but now I think I can turn that stress into excitement excitement for the future to do things to use my failures as motivation to create meaningful work there’s always an opportunity to turn negative energy into positive action and I Continue reading
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We have a soul
How do we know we have souls? There are many theories and ways to arriving to an answer But I think the most compelling response to why we have souls? We love the dead. We love past the physical body. It’s not something we see The soul is a feeling P.S. I published another Continue reading
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Relegate
Don’t relegate your teachers to only people who look like teachers Don’t relegate creativity to things you believe are traditionally creative Don’t relegate beauty to aesthetics And don’t relegate life to externalities Continue reading
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Stop being negative
Jeff Bezos donated $2 billion to charity last year. And somehow the keyboard warriors of the internet love to point out the bad. “It’s for tax purposes…” Even if it were for tax purposes, does it really matter? Either way he is parting away with money. Those same people saying that Bezos only donates money Continue reading
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Reflecting on my “loneliness”
This post is quite sappy and melodramatic (but let’s be honest, if you’ve read any of my writing, you know I do this a lot). It’s Valentines Day today and another reminder from society that I am single. Granted, every year, I’ve felt this feeling. Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve never been in Continue reading
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How do we know anything is real…? Descartes brings up the question of dreams and reality: how do we know what is truly real? Do we even know anything? What if what we perceive as “reality” is simply a dream–and when we supposedly “wake up” from our dreams, we simply wake up into another dream? Continue reading
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Treatments
This blog post uses information and experiments extracted from the latest book I’ve been listening to on Audible: “Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data” In economics, in sciences, in social sciences, in politics, we care about what works. But how effective are certain treatments? Placebos can be quite powerful. Sometimes they are just Continue reading
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