This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day. The issue for this year is environment.
If you read your RSS reader today, you may read a lot of posts about the environment. That’s because there are 15,000+ blogs participating in Blog Action Day which cover the theme of environment.
Since there will [...]

Reading classic books can boost your learning experience. There are some reasons why classic books can do that: they have stood the test of time, they give you different “lenses” to look through, and they will most likely be relevant even to the far future. Reading the classics is an excellent intellectual exercise which will [...]

I love quotes since they are among the kinds of information which have the highest density of wisdom. Reading and pondering quotes can give you very high return on your time investment.
One important topic – I believe – is friendship. Friendship makes our life colorful and wonderful (see also 5 Reasons Why Relationships Should be Your Top Priority). [...]

A few days ago I wrote about 23 practical things you can do to make your life more fulfilling. There I wrote that the more your needs at the higher levels are met, the more fulfilling your life will be. Now I want to revisit the idea from a different angle, and that is from [...]

Sometimes we may feel stressed or even depressed in life. Things can go wrong and not go as expected. While there may be other causes for such situations, I believe one important cause is unrealistic expectations.
Either they come from ourselves or from other people, unrealistic expectations cause us to ride mental roller-coaster. When [...]

Have you ever experienced having no idea come to your mind when you need them? Such moments can be frustrating, especially if you have spent quite a lot of time to think and still get nothing. In such situations, getting external inputs to stimulate your mind is a good solution. They can break down your [...]