Killing Time
Weekend morning. I was sitting with my coffee and the rare stillness of early hours when the phone went “ting ting”. A message from an old friend: “Got anything fun to kill time with? I’m so free, so bored, nothing to do.” I froze. Not at the message, but at…
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…
Just a Thought
Touching the dream
Next door to me in a normal countryside village lived a younger cousin of mine. From an early age, he carried a passion that was anything but normal. While his peers were absorbed in ordinary games and entertainment, he would bury himself in tattered, old car magazines. He created a…
The Empty Cup
A Monday morning on Phú Quý island. I was swimming in clear, cool water. My companion – a man living at ease, with a happy family and the grounded calm most people only dream of – looked up: “After all these years, look how much we’ve learned.” An offhand remark.…
How Much Return Is Enough?
In today’s investment world, most people who step in carry with them a dream of making money fast. They imagine that all it takes is putting capital into the market and the money will automatically “make more money.” That’s not entirely wrong, but it often leads to unrealistic expectations, leaving…
Life's Playbooks
Death: The Ultimate Beauty
A man carrying late-stage cancer tumors, with only a few short months left to live, walked up to the lecture podium at Carnegie Mellon University. He projected the CT scans of his own body onto the screen – the very tumors gnawing away at his life, day by day. Then…
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…