When your perceived situation is much better than your friend’s, it is easy to be generous. You can give him abundant support because doing so does not threaten your sense of security. You may even willingly lower yourself to lift your friend from below. So it is no surprise when a married woman is eager to set up her single friends, or when a successful entrepreneur is enthusiastic about training his protégé.
Posted in Step Up | Tagged charisma, friendship, interpersonal | 1 Comment »
Hey all,
I just wanted to let everyone know that I have updated my mission statement, which is now called “My Journey.” You can access it through the navigation menu, or if you are in a lazy mood, you can just click here.
I spent a lot of time writing it and a ton of time thinking about it. I hope you enjoy reading it. I think if you’ve had a similar experience, you’ll definitely find it worth your while.
Love
A. T. Bui
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Many of my best thoughts have come from my intuition, but in at least one case (I’m sure there are many others), I was embarrassingly wrong. What I’m talking about is how one should approach perseverance.
When your eyes grow weary from reading a long book or your legs grow weak from a long jog, I had originally thought that you should become shortsighted if you needed to find the will to continue. That is, only focus on the next immediate milestone in front of you, whether that be the end of the chapter or the end of the street block. Even though you will be able to push yourself a little further this way, it’s not likely you will be breaking any personal records.
Posted in Master Your Mind | Tagged journey, perseverance, philosophy, process | 3 Comments »
One of my favorite scenes in the movie “Fight Club” is when Tyler Durden drags a convenience store clerk out into the back parking lot and holds him at gunpoint. When the store clerk divulges his abandoned passion to become a veterinarian, Tyler decides to let him go on the condition that he fulfill his dream, or else face certain death. What is so great about this scene is that anyone who can imagine himself in the store clerk’s shoes will know that he will succeed at becoming a veterinarian come hell or high water.
Posted in Master Your Mind | Tagged motivation, procrastination | 5 Comments »
Hi everyone. My name is A. T. Bui and I am an infoholic. I would like to share my story for the benefit of other infoholics here today.
For 4 years, I imbibed useless information into my mind for hours each day. I chugged the daily news and took shots of random trivia. I guzzled detailed analyses of the stock market when I had not the money to invest. I drank hearsay of subversive conspiracies when I had neither sufficient ability nor sufficient desire to halt them even if proven to be true. I tossed back tutorials on a hundred new hobbies when I had not even enough time for the few hobbies I already had.
Posted in Master Your Mind | Tagged focus, information | 4 Comments »
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