I wrote all this an hour after I find out that my Grandma had passed away a few months ago. While I’ve added a few words here or there, I decided to keep it formatted as is, with repetition and some things that don’t make perfect sense. It is my belief that each of us were put on this earth …
You’re Wrong: Why It’s OK and Even GOOD at Times
“I know one thing: that I know nothing.” – Socrates Do you always think that you’re always right? When someone gives you a suggestion do you say, “Pft, I know way better than you.” Do you get hurt when someone challenges you? I’ve been there. I used to think I knew everything and the perfect way to do everything – …
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living – Set Your Life Constraints
Constraints aren’t always a bad thing. When solving problems in engineering and mathematics, sometimes there are too many unknowns to come up with a solution. I used to work on artificial heart valves and if you wanted to analyze how blood flowed through one of the vessels you stuck the heart valve in, you would have to know many variables: …
Things You Take For Granted – You’ll Never Be Grateful For What You Have Until It’s All Taken From You
There’s a lot of writing in self-improvement about how we take things for granted and are caught on the never ending hamster wheel of wanting more. You have the common advice of being grateful for what you have – Please take stock of the fact that you can read, have the use of your eyes, have enough money to afford …
What It’s Like To Drop Everything And Travel The World, Part 3
Sean Ogle talked about how many people who do a continual 9-5 grind for years become stuck in habits that they are not even aware of: watching TV for hours at night. Never trying anything new. Not working on personal dreams… I would extend this to say that anyone, including entrepreneurs, the unemployed, aliens, etc. could fall victim to this …
What It’s Like To Drop Everything And Travel The World, Part 2
Cover image: The Bitexco financial tower and street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. So upon entering Vietnam as a digital nomad and trying to glimpse out of the plane window to catch my first glimpse of the country I started to feel it… The humidity. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of drinking water left, so I was sparingly …