Author: Sofia
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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…
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12 Life Hacks I Learned From Some Of The Coolest People I Know
“We don’t have to waste our time learning how to make pastry when we can use grandma’s recipes.”― Orson De Witt, Earth Won’t Miss You Some Of The People I’m Grateful For This Year When we seek life hacks and thrifted wisdom, we often turn to the lofty role models we see on the glossy…
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Angela Duckworth’s Approach To Discover Your Passions & Developing Grit
“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” -Steve Jobs Passion vs. Grit The typical narrative places grit and passion on opposite ends of the spectrum. We imagine “following your passion” as taking a low-paying career in something we enjoy as a hobby. Then, alternatively, there is…
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What Disney Songs Helped Me Learn (The Easy Way)
“Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.” -Diego Luna Go watch a Disney movie. There are basically two ways to learn life lessons in my book: 1) the hard way, by getting your heart broken and your dreams crushed, or 2), the easy way- by watching a Disney movie. I know you have…
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Why It Would Be Silly Not To Read More Fiction
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid You know the feeling? One of my favorite ways to spend a quiet evening is to read on my Kindle. You know the feeling? You unwrap a cool facemask from a little plastic bag, breathe in…
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7 Reasons It’s Stupid Not To Dream Bigger
“The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.” -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni It made me kind of jealous… I started learning how to dream big about a year ago, when I started university. I was nineteen, a freshman moving into a San Francisco residence hall that was conveniently…