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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • Building habits and a new hairbrush

    Building habits and a new hairbrush

    With the year spent mostly within my room’s comfort, I don’t spend much time brushing my hair. Mainly because I have the regular comb you use in the shower, and it never inspires me to make hair brushing a habit. As much as I wanted to have detangled hair all day long, I never had the… Read more

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  • Bad attitudes and pointing fingers

    It’s easy to call out other people about their bad attitudes while having bad attitudes yourself. And you may even tell other people how horrible they are without seeing yourself as terrible at par. I had this encounter with a man one time who is openly proud of his brashness and lack of self-control. He… Read more

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  • Back on the farm

    Back on the farm

    Growing up in a small city, I always wondered how it’s like to live in a big one, with tall buildings everywhere you look at. But now that I am living in the metro with almost concrete everywhere, I can’t help but wish to be back home. To be away from the never-ending noise and… Read more

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  • 2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009

    History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment… Read more

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  • It’s not all about you

    When we were children, we look forward to life, thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. We believe we could be this or that. It’s all about what we could become. But now that I am in my early adulthood, I realized that life is not “all about you.” Maturity begins when you start to… Read more

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  • Arguments and labeling

    People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • Predicting the future and fraud

    Now let’s say you had experience in economics and business, as I do. In those domains, anyone telling you they can predict the future in ten years with their complicated multivariate models is automatically considered fraud. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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