For the past ten years, whenever I hit a beautiful coastline, I’ve kept a habit that most people call insane: I swim out. Way out. I swim until the noisy crowds on the sand shrink into tiny, irrelevant dots. I swim until the roar of the waves hitting the shore…
For a long time, I was hemorrhaging my life’s most valuable assets without even noticing. I was trapped in the “80/20 trap” of mediocrity: Even right before bed, 80% of my mental bandwidth was wasted on mindless scrolling or useless overthinking. I only allowed myself to surrender to the void…
I once traveled to the mystical highlands of Tibet and stayed with a local family. It was a world completely detached from everything I thought I knew. But what shook me the most wasn’t the landscape—it was their perspective on death. Up there, you won’t find pharmacies or medical clinics…
I was driving back to Saigon from the countryside with a friend. Halfway through, the exhaustion kicked in, so I handed him the wheel. It was a Sunday afternoon—prime time for chaos. He checked the GPS, saw the deep red lines of a massive traffic jam ahead, and calmly said:…
Five years ago, a spark hit me: I needed to write a book about my journey. It was an unexpected realization, born from the debris of both my wins and my wrecks. It was the moment I truly understood that in this vast, swirling universe, I am just a tiny…