Identity document – Thang Nguyen 555

11/10/2012

Becoming yourself

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize Winner, told a story (in the Black Book) about a writer whose wife left him for no reason at all. Restless and sleepless (and perhaps facing writer’s block) he imagined living out his former single self ( the status he now found himself in ). After a while, the mind played trick…

Reaping rewards

Image of an old guy spread out on his Harley w/ a cigar in his mouth stuck with me. To him, that was it. The end game. Reaping the windfall. In Seven Habits of Effective People, Steven Covey urges his readers to “begin with the end in mind”. I guess, in this case, I better…

the art of showing

In Impressive First Impressions, author Vu Pham introduces the concept of “reset”. By that he means, we constantly need to reset our first impressions according to each context and situation: at work, at play, at home. The same guy. When he was at the top of his game, generated a different impression than when he…