Hi everybody, New Year is just around the corner. As communicated previously, I will publish each month’s reading list beforehand. Reading List: January 2018 The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli Genre: Psychology Swiss writer, Rolf Dobelli, discusses the common mistakes that Homo Sapiens do every single day and their implications to our lives….
Dear ALL, I would like to sincerely thank everyone who contributed to gather my reading list for 2018. I have selected 38 books out of many recommendations and I will add 14 more during the year of 2018. I will publish the reading list of the each month and I will publish a book review…
To be highly successful and go through the rough times with resilience, you must have an ultimate goal. One that keeps you going, no matter what the obstacles are and what kind of pain you are going through. You will get through all these difficulties if you have a strong ultimate goal. Then I am…
I would like to thank the many of you that suggested your book recommendations to establish my reading list for 2018. I am compiling all the emails right now and I will choose my 52 books from among them and publish the list in my blog during the next couple of weeks. Recently, I have…
I am pledging to read 52 books in 2018 – in other words, one book per week. I read, roughly speaking, books with an average of 350 pages, so I should read about 50 pages a day to accomplish this challenge. I think it is quite doable, but I need your help. Currently, I am…
How free are you really? I have been thinking this question and its possible answers for quite some time now. Even though many of us are walking around and thinking that we could potentially do whatever we like, we are not really as free as we like to think we are. In some cases, we…
I was at Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto speech in London at Chatham House last month. Despite being a good speaker and being able to construct lovely sentences with a proper British accent, it made me think of the implications of a hung parliament with Corbyn in the government in the UK. The election on June 8th…
I was thrilled to be in Myanmar a couple of weeks ago with my family. Since time was limited, we only spent three days in Yangon. Myanmar is the 57th country I have visited – and I should say I am quite amazed by it. After visiting Cambodia, I wondered if I was doing the…
I was honoured to co-lecture with Eric Sim, an investment banker and an adjacent professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology last week. Hong Kong Univesity of Science and Technology has a great campus located at Clear Water Bay Road which is half an hour drive from Central Hong Kong Island. It has…