A Perfect Universe
Slow down into stillness and watch the world closely, and you’ll notice how often we see life through the narrow lens of daily joys and sorrows. When a contract falls through, when someone we love turns away, when a project we poured our heart into collapses, we tend to cry…
STOICISM and the Journey of Tranquility
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Topic: Personal Development, Applied Philosophy If you are holding a book on Stoicism in your hand and hesitating over whether words written thousands of years ago by ancient Roman philosophers can help with a modern life flooded with deadlines, financial stress, and complex relationships,…
Beyond Happiness
One late weekend afternoon in Saigon, as the harsh sun softened into a cool breeze, I dropped by an older friend’s home to talk through some plans for the future. What began as a conversation about dry numbers and market strategy quietly turned into a kind of awakening – about…
Loneliness or Stillness
I. The Thin Line Between Two Worlds We live in a strange age: an age of limitless connection that somehow brims with lost souls. The churn of modern life has turned “being alone” into a collective fear. People dread the empty spaces. They dread the moment the phone dies, the…
Just a Thought
Worry – A Play Written by the Mind
Worry, in truth, is an imaginary play the mind writes, directs, and performs all on its own. We sit in the audience of our own making, staging the worst-case scripts – and suffering through them, even though most will never happen. Seneca said it best: we suffer more often in…
872 Hours to Look Back at Myself
872 hours were never really about running. They were 872 hours to watch myself. No phone. No meetings. No noise. Just me, my breath, and one question that kept circling back: am I living a life worth living? And every time the answer was still “not yet,” the next kilometer…
How to Run 7,777 Kilometers
7,777 kilometers – the distance from Vietnam to Europe. It sounds extraordinary. But it didn’t come from exceptional talent or rare bursts of brilliance. It came from habit. 6 years, 3 months, 5 days. Not every day was perfect – but every day was a chance to begin. No complicated…
Life's Playbooks
Murphy’s Law: When the Whole Universe Is Against Me Alone
Have you ever wondered why the universe seems to be aiming at you and you alone? Years ago, that question spun in my head every single day. Stuck in traffic, I would slip into the next lane because the cars over there were inching forward faster. But the moment my…
Death: An Inside Story
The deepest lessons I have drawn from a book – and how they changed the way I live. The first time I heard Sadhguru say “Death is the most beautiful thing about life,” I stopped cold. The words sounded like a contradiction. But they stayed with me – and I…
How to Win Friends and Influence People – 15 Years of Practice
I’ve never been the type to gravitate toward “life advice” books. In a world of KPIs, quarterly targets, and the relentless pressure of running a multinational operation, I tend to favor what’s practical and measurable. But one book shattered that bias entirely – and has kept it shattered for 15…
Understanding the Heart: Know Yourself, Know the Universe
When I was eight or nine, I spent an entire afternoon on the porch of our house, carefully knotting together scraps of thread I had collected from the seamstresses in our village – blue pieces, red pieces, white pieces – into one patchwork kite string. When the kite finally caught…