This letter aims to remind you that if you are reading this in 10, 20, 30 years… you are still alive. Not all of the people that I know will have the same luck. Maybe you have gone through tough challenges that I today would not be able to imagine…

It is easy to fixate on a struggle that makes your life hard while thinking that your experience would be so much better if it resolved itself. Most rational people can discern different degrees of human struggles. Indeed some people live more challenging lives than others…

Since I watched the new Netflix series Queen’s Gambit, I was inspired to learn how to play chess. The excitement of figuring out the geometry and patterns behind such a rich game comes with ease. Paradoxically, the feeling of being crushed comes as frequently every time I lose due to my foolish mistakes.

Type- A personalities have a goal-pursuit mindset as default hardwiring. This is excellent for executing and producing achievement. Nonetheless, it also creates anxiety. You’re always focused on the future because nothing you do is enough. This mindset taken to the extreme comes with an internal narrative that follows along the lines of “only if X happens, I can then allow myself to be happy, to be satisfied, to feel good about myself, to feel successful, etc.”…

To understand what makes a couple change their dynamic in a long term relationship, it is necessary first to divide pre-conquest from the post-conquest. The first stage is where you find the desire to have another person. With this comes novelty, adventure, risk, mystery, danger, and surprise…

To disrupt the “status quo” (which includes accepted norms, behaviors, products, and services), it is of incredible importance to engage in more in-depth observation, questioning, association, networking, and experimenting. All of these are essential habits most innovators utilize, following the research of Clayton Christensen, professor of business at Harvard…

Creativity is a skill you develop, not a trait you are born with. Many people who avoid doing creative work tend to feel frustrated after realizing they cannot produce a masterpiece in their first attempts. Nonetheless, I perceive that frustration is a result not of the lack of talent but rather from the high expectation…

It’s easy to compare your current level of skill or ability with the one of someone else. Social media now allows viewers access to see human potential. However, if you think about it, it is not like there are more geniuses out there than before…

The cultural dogma that to thrive in this competitive world, you have to ultra specialize is, in my perspective, overrated. If you want to succeed in a single domain, most likely, you would need to be within the top 1%…

Have you ever wondered how you can measure how well you manage the periods of stress and recovery? I am not talking subjectively based on a tiny sample of what you can remember but with biofeedback tools…