Brainfoodinator

Reflections on learning to say no and set boundary. Off to sofia tomorrow for a wedding!

My HS Chinese Teacher's retired life is pretty ideal - she's busy learning a lot of things and traveling across the country! Love her spirit!

Do your best and live life with no regret! Work hard now~

There is so much benefit in seeing masters' art work up close! Loved seeing the evolution of artists as well~ True mastery in art requires daily practice!

I typically recommend learning in quiet spaces, but Smartly app allowed me to study accounting while hanging out at a party. It was an interesting experiment! The game-like design makes it possible to concentrate :)

Had an interesting conversation with a newly turned full-time artist. All careers are hard, might as well do what you love!

Elizabeth Gilbert’s book on how to lead a creative life has been truly heart warming! To unburden ourselves from the anxiety of creating art, remember that we are not geniuses, but we could have geniuses, sometimes.

Getting weaker prescription to allow room for eyesight improvement! It was awesome watching Hamilton up close front and centre!

On overworking, time allocation and more~

Smart.ly is an innovative, remote and free MBA program. My Smartly cohort started today, and we had our London meetup earlier - only 14 people based in London this time!

Life as an entrepreneur is not easy, even Elon Musk had a small breakdown.

Musashi is a self-directed learner, famous Japanese samurai from the 16th century. He’s also known for being a Buddhist, philosopher, artist and writer. He believes in the “way of strategy”, and practices many arts with no teacher!

Kimura Takuya started off as a pop star, mere entertainer. Now he’s viewed as a living Samurai, even a God for some, because of his hardworking attitude and excellence in all things he does.

AKB48 has about 150 girl members. According to its producer Yasushi Akimoto, the group’s concept is about gathering ordinary girls without much talent or personality and showcase their growth in an intimate accessible way with their fans through nightly performances. Akimoto san also doesn’t believe there are great talents in Japan...

My 10-Day Silent Meditation retreat experience - the highlights! And my excuse for having missed 4 days of audio journal - but back on track again!! p.s. dhamma.org has information on the vipassana meditation retreat :)

Werner Herzog is a soldier of cinema, completely self-taught and does things his way! Aaron Sorkin the writer for “The West Wing” also approaches screenwriting very differently from the most~ great masterclasses!

Frank Gehry is the amazing architect who created the “Bilbao Effect”. Reflecting on how he’s still passionately working even though he’s almost 90! Perhaps the most fortunate position to be in~

Malcolm shares a great tip - “ It’s a good writer’s job to lower the bar.” Absolutely love it! How to avoid the sense of failure and writer’s block!

Met Nas Daily in person! Was at his London meetup~ lots of tips! But Malcolm Gladwell’s masterclass on writing non-fiction still made my day more :D

Outlines + research + up to 10 rewrites = James Patterson’s Writing Secrets