Mirror…Mirror… on the wall
Maya Santoso was twenty-six, gainfully employed as a junior graphic designer in Surabaya, and the undisputed world champion of finding things wrong with her own face. Every morning began the same way. She’d walk into the bathroom, flick on the lights, and lean toward the mirror like a detective examining a crime scene. Okay. Let’s […]
The Man Who Was Afraid of Everything (Except His Cat)
The Man Who Was Afraid of Everything (Except His Cat) Hendra Wijaya was, by all external metrics, a perfectly fine forty-three-year-old Chinese Indonesian man. He had a decent condo in Pantai Indah Kapuk, a car that started on the first try, and a small collection of houseplants that were mostly still green. But inside Hendra’s […]
The Architecture of Freedom: Why Discipline is the Ultimate Key
We often encounter a common mental block: the idea that discipline is a cage. We see the rigid schedules, the early morning exercises, and the endless hours of study as a form of self-imposed imprisonment. We crave the “flow,” but we mistake laziness for freedom. This is the story of Adrian, a young man who […]
Finding Peace in Reality: A Journey from Disillusionment to Clarity
As far as I know, everyone I met during my lifetime, hate people who gave reasonable and realistic world view. They were being viewed as pessimistic, motivation destroyers and vision less. Do they really have passionless attitude toward life, or is it just a misunderstanding? I was born with positive attitude toward world, I saw […]
The Ancient Wisdom That Changed My Life: When Stoicism Met Mindfulness
I still remember the moment I bought Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations from amazon kindle book store for free. I had no idea that this 2,000-year-old journal written by a Roman Emperor would fundamentally shift how I navigate life’s challenges. What astounded me even more was discovering that the Stoic philosophy within its pages echoed principles I’d […]
The Three-Layer Shield: How Ancient Wisdom Solves Modern Leadership Crisis
There’s a moment every leader dreads—when everything falls apart at once. The project fails. The team fractures. The market turns against you. In that moment, you face a choice: become either a cold machine or a helpless bystander. But what if there was a third way? After years of exploring both Stoic philosophy and Vajrayana […]
Dig deeper
There are stories floating in youtube shorts about two guys, both are digging in the hope of find gold, the first one digging for many days without any result, then the other guy who are digging with the same amount of time already found a small chunk of gold and get rich. The first guy […]
Why people seem struggling, nowadays?
When i read history books, there were a lot of stories of how families struggling for food and daily necessities. There were not enough technologies and knowledge to overcome pandemies, famines and droughts. The political system were still in feudal state. It means nobles and high level societies think the lower class as slaves. Only […]
Life or money
Last week, a friend of mine, which i haven’t seen him for a year long come to visit, and we have a lot of conversation, even a serious debate about what is the most important thing in life. What to be prioritize first ? and why or why shouldn’t we rely on anything in this […]
Cold/influenza treatment
As Indonesia still in rainy season during February, i find that a lot of people get cough and running nose. They say that this year rain are heavier than before, not mention the strong wind which usually accompany the rain, makes your body chill. The sad thing is, between rainy day, there are also clear […]