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The Comprehensive List Of The Worst Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” -Francis Bacon My Hottest Take It is my hottest take: the hardest part about unsolicited advice isn’t
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A Lonely Introvert’s Secret To Making Friendship An Energy Source
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.” -John Lennon I had no friends. I used to think I didn’t have the energy for socializing. Or rather, friendship was the thing I must sacrifice to get ahead. Having lots of friends was for extroverts who
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Sending Myself Emails Is The Embarrassing Life Hack I Didn’t Know Would 10x My Confidence.
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” — Paul Tournier Growing up never ends. There is nothing like the disgusting and raw feeling of emotional and spiritual growing pains to reshape the way confidence looks for you. For my younger self, confidence used to mean looking and behaving with power.
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The Controversial Secrets Of Productive Women
“Leaders bleed, period.” ― Silvia Young, My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories The Productivity Fraternity. There are certain arbitrary signifiers that long ago, some random Kappa Kappa Productivity Fraternity decided to put on an equally arbitrary checklist against which all productive people are measured. They decided “hard-working”, “productive” people wake up at the crack of dawn
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I’m Glad I Failed More Than Ever Before In 2025
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill The Duality Of Failure & Success. Isn’t it interesting to think about how many things we have failed at versus where we have succeeded? Maybe it’s a cliché that the list of where we failed is almost always longer than
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Climbing Mount Fuji Was Uncomfortable—and That’s Where the Growth Happened
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir Add me to the group chat! I wasn’t thinking about resilience, or how to grow from discomfort when I got on my catch-up call with my buddy Noku in July. What I had on my mind was more along the lines of how I