Tag: Personal Development
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I Have Regular Lunches with My Mum And I Don’t Regret It
I still remember the day when I got the call from my mum in 2014. “Son, your father just had a stroke”, her shaking voice reverberated throughout the first few seconds. “I don’t know what to do”. I was still in university in the United States, and it was the…
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I Wrote for 7 Consecutive Days and 12,000 Words Later, I Wish I Hadn’t
That’s about 2,000 words a day. I felt great the first 4 days, awful the next 2 days, and burned out on the last day. Then, I took a half day’s rest to try to recuperate. It didn’t work out that way. If you like this content, consider subscribing to…
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Why You NEED Insurance
Written by Stephanie Goh Many of us have probably gone through this experience or at least know someone who has. A friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time messages you out of the blue and invites you for a mamak session. You go thinking it will be nice…
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Man’s Struggle for Meaning, Tesla’s ESG, Chevron’s Purchase of Hess, OpenAI, and Earnings Watch for the Week
Why Men Are Struggling to Find Meaning “Boys are struggling to be men, as they lack father figures to guide them”. Find out here why men are struggling to find meaning in life. I Read 224 pages of Tesla’s ESG Repost SO that You Don’t Have To Are you wondering…
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Why Men are Struggling to Find Meaning
Here’s the link to this Harvard Professor “Boys are struggling to be men, as they lack father figures to guide them”. I think this is what stuck with me as I watched this video. I was lucky enough to grow up with both parents – both father and mother figure.…
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Ageing Society, Entitlement, Progressive Wages, Tesla 3Q Results, and China Singles Day
Hi all, here are the line-ups for this week’s content that I have published here. Subscribe to my Slice of P.I.E LinkedIn and Medium for more content like this! Why We Need to Embrace an Aging World — the Case of Singapore Singapore is rapidly aging but there are some trends that…
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He Didn’t Know How to Read Until He Was 30+, Now He Wrote a Book
This newsletter first appeared on my main LinkedIn channel. Subscribe now! This is Dean Tolson. He was a professional basketball player. The thing is he didn’t know how to read and write at all. He got into university with other people taking his exams, and finally into a basketball career.…
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Why We Take Things for Granted and Feel Entitled
This newsletter first appeared on my main LinkedIn channel. Subscribe now! “Why can’t you just tell me the answer if you know the answer?” A reply I got from one of my students. These replies aren’t new to me. I have encountered such situations in my previous tutor sessions and…
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Confide in your HR or Seek External Help?
This picture was taken in KLCC for their Mental Health event happening now until 15 October 2023, and my thoughts resonated heavily with it. Like many of the respondents, I put my sticker on the external help section, where the result wasn’t anything surprising. Overwhelmingly, most Malaysians prefer to seek…
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