When you have been brought up most of your life learning how to game the system, the metric for success becomes defined as beating someone rather than curating the life you actually want.

Anyone telling you to follow your passion is already rich. No one grows up thinking: "I'm passionate about tax law", but the best tax lawyers fly private jets and have a much broader selection of mates than they deserve.

According to aero-propulsion engineering, most of a plane's fuel is burned when it is taxi-ing and taking off, not when cruising in mid air. Any new venture needs to overcome an initial resistance in order to achieve a breakthrough.

Education teaches us to be compliant, older people tend to bring up unheathy comparisons, and learning to stay humble.

The importance of being "pigs", the most common recipe of an average life, cutting the noise to get things done, wisdom from Pooh bear and Michael Caine.

“Sorry, no more executive roles after your fifties.”

When I arrived in Hong Kong in May 2021, I spent over two years of living out of a suitcase in a serviced hotel...

If you are not careful in protecting your dreams, someone else will show up and make you build their dreams for them.

Reflections on money and true wealth.

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - Eric Roth

If someone older with a mediocre income can learn English as a second language, what excuses do we have for not picking up a new skill?

Money can only go so far in compensating the inconvenience and logistics of relocating overseas, but how does one psychologically prepare for and cope for the change to a new environment?

Many of life’s lessons don’t need to be drawn from the advice and anecdotes of other people. It just comes from a position of inner peace and self-realisation.

At any point of time, nothing is ever so good or bad as it seems.

The faster you acclimatise to all aspects of your surroundings, the easier life becomes.

High performance individuals often struggle personally for many years once they are past their economic prime. Most of us have been taught to plan our careers upon graduation. But no one mentions about how we should plan the second good half of our professional lives.

No celebration, not a lot of booze, no chugging of beers, no fanciful dinners or gatherings.

Don’t beat yourself up if you didn't meet your KPIs. But also don't be too quick to give yourself more credit than you deserve for your achievements at the workplace.

It is often said that we can't let our jobs define us. But how we do our jobs, and behave with our colleagues and clients ultimately determines the kind of person we are.

Our lack of understanding in how different countries are being governed are rooted in bias, largely based on what we are familiar with and what we are not.