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Learning from people, books


How some of us become strong

We had a great time talk­ing, exchang­ing ideas and thoughts. My friend and I agreed that we grow because we were given the oppor­tu­nity to grow. Our choice was to either keep being mis­er­able about the past sit­u­a­tion we lived through, or accept the past, learn, and move on

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16 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
Mastering business skills

Nat­ural ten­dency of lik­ing peo­ple and want­ing to com­mu­ni­cate is prob­a­bly what makes a good inter­preter. It is what prob­a­bly makes a good painter of peo­ple. But I was not inter­ested in pur­su­ing the art of inter­pret­ing or painting

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15 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
Things that interest you

Lst week, I told my friend who was not sure what to write about on his blog that he needs to write about things that really inter­est him. Oth­er­wise, writ­ing will not continue

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29 Jan, 2004 | 2 comments
From Feynman’s Rainbow

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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13 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet


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