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Your Career Isn’t Enough

Finally admitting I don’t have a career plan has made me uneasy. But it’s also been liberating. While talking to a clerk at the gym I go to, we eventually got to the topic of my college major. After telling her I was studying computer science, she inquired what I…

Careers

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Your Career Isn’t Enough
Your Career Isn’t Enough
Careers

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This Is It

While it’s been months since I last posted on my week-daily ideas, I miss it. I’m grateful for the work I have put into it in the past, and I want to return with an idea that I am working hard to internalize. Namely, that this is it. I heard…

Philosophy

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This Is It
This Is It
Philosophy

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6 hours ago

How to Start

There is no period in a human’s life that they waste more time than when they are planning to start. In writing this piece, procrastination seems like the wrong word for it. It denotes that you want to start, know you should start, maybe even know how to start, but…

Goals

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How to Start
How to Start
Goals

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2 days ago

Creating Faith in Myself

It would really hurt. But I’d be ok. Time and time again in life, we are struck with hardship. You or a family member gets sick, you lose your job, you experience an emergency outside of your control. This happens. …

Self Improvement

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Creating Faith in Myself
Creating Faith in Myself
Self Improvement

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4 days ago

Stoicism isn’t a Cure-All (But It Can Help)

When I was younger, I was deeply involved with the Stoics. The words of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus provided me with both a destination and a map for living my best life. …

Philosophy

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Stoicism isn’t a Cure-All
Stoicism isn’t a Cure-All
Philosophy

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Sep 14

How to Get the Career You Want

“I want to be an astronaut!” As kids, we threw around these claims about who we want to be and when we want to be it. Without regards to our why or our how, we would change our ideas for the future every couple of weeks, never seeing the inconsistency…

Careers

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How to Get the Career You Want
How to Get the Career You Want
Careers

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Sep 11

How We Make Friends

I created a model for friend-making in the first few weeks of college. It was a cycle — to be began and ended when it felt right. At first, you’re divergent. You meet as many new people as possible. You keep an open mind. You reserve most judgement. You simply…

Friendship

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How We Make Friends
How We Make Friends
Friendship

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Sep 6

A Time to Act

I’ve had an accountability problem. In my mid-teens, I was highly conscientious. When I set a goal, I’d stick to it, never taking time to deviate. …

Goals

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A Time to Act
A Time to Act
Goals

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Sep 4

You’ll Never Find Meaning (Create it)

In a non-masochistic way, suffering is the best thing to happen to me. Viktor Frankl’s Man Search for Meaning reversed the way I viewed pain. Whereas it was once something to be avoided, it was now something to accept and glean meaning from. …

Purpose

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You’ll Never Find Meaning (Create it)
You’ll Never Find Meaning (Create it)
Purpose

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Sep 2

How to Overcome Career Anxiety

Career anxiety often leaves me standing still. I don’t know what I want to do with my career. And I feel lazy for experimenting. This summer, I left the US. For 90 days, I said farewell to the culture I’ve known for almost two decades and dove headfirst into a…

Careers

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How to Overcome Career Anxiety
How to Overcome Career Anxiety
Careers

4 min read

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