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A former shopaholic handling the sales season — I wasn’t aware of sales growing up. It wasn’t part of the marketing strategy in China back then (by the way, it’s everywhere now.) So when I came to the U.S. to study, I bought everything at full price. It all changed when my mother-in-law introduced me to the concept…

sunk costs and escalation of commitment

My new sentence collecting journey — Do you like sentences? If so, most likely, you will enjoy writing, similar to that many painters like the smell of paint, as Annie Dillard recalled in her book The Writing Life. Sentence is the smallest unit of most writing. Practice crafting better sentences can be a great exercise for…

A short discussion of ontology and epistemology — Another way that we deceive ourselves is by assuming that our view represents the truth when it is really just an interpretation, a lens through which we choose to view the world. — — The power of full engagement What is the difference between truth and story? …

Curiosity over judgment — When people grow apart it’s not because they have a difference of opinion necessarily, because some couples have major differences in opinion but they continue to remain deeply connected, curious about each other, respectful of who they are, and they’re not threatened by the difference of the other. …

What does joy mean to you? — To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow ourselves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self felt like a thankful death itself, a disappearance, a giving away, overheard in the…

Testing possible selves — …we must reframe the questions, abandoning the conventional career-advice queries — “Who am I?” — in favor of more open-ended alternatives — “Among the many possible selves that I might become, which is most intriguing to me now? — Herminia Ibarra There are two routes for people looking for career…

And animal spirits — Now spending has come roaring back, as governments have stimulated the economy and consumers let rip. The above sentence painted a vivid picture of the demand-driven economy rebound. The increase in government expenditure and consumption shifts the aggregate demand to the right. Oh my, how on earth was I able…