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Hyunjoo Je is a young teacher who taught me a perspective on work. In 2019, I read her book ‘The Working Mind’ and went to hear her lecture. Today, I went through my old notes and reread what I wrote down, and it still stuck with me, so I felt compelled to write it down.…

Knowing what you want to do is half the battle. Most people live their lives blindly desiring the desires of others. You want a Gucci or Prada bag not because you need it, but because everyone else does. That’s how most of us live. We’ve wanted to go where others want to go, we’ve wanted…

I had a funny thought when I remembered the movie Joe Black’s Love. The movie was released in 1998, but the subject matter is memorable. Joe Black (Brad Pitt) is a grim reaper. He takes on the body of a young man in a coma after a car accident and appears before Mr. Parrish (Anthony…

There are some lives that seem good. For me, it was the poet Liu Shihua. I envied his freedom, writing skills, and economic freedom to live just by writing. I also like the classical scholar Ko Mi-sook. Her desire to live a life of studying is challenged when she fails to get a professorship. She…

When you hesitate to do something, what are the reasons? First of all, Not sure it will success. We don’t want to start something that we don’t know if it’s going to work. We also hesitate when the price of success is too high. What if it doesn’t work out? You can’t be 100% sure…

Dukkha, a Sanskrit word translated as suffering in Buddhism. However, its original meaning refers to limitations that humans cannot control. A heavy rainfall that makes the sky look like a hole in the ground can also be considered Dukkha. What we do can be good or bad. If you open a large restaurant after retirement…