guides
Think big, drive small
When it comes to money, the holy grail of all questions is always “how to make more money”. I believe this is only part of the equation of making money. We also have to know how to spend the money so that we will end up having more money to make more money. I believe [...]
Drawing small circles
The smaller the circle, the smaller the mind. 圈子小，人生圈子也小。
When doing Tai Ji, or when pushing hands, it reflects the way you see life itself. When we are afraid of making mistakes, when we are not confident in ourselves, these feelings will show in your Tai Chi, even to the untrained eye. For instance, the hands [...]
When you push, just push
A common habit when practising, is to make the adjustments while carrying out an action. In the context of Tai Chi, you might have seen people bobbing up and down, or pushing forward with various hand gestures, looking very awkward as though their clothes just don’t fit them. Then one day, my teacher said,
“When you [...]
1 and 1 makes 3
According to my current Tai Ji teacher, if you practise the form continuously one set after another, the effect is compounded. For example, if you practise the form twice in succession, you would have effectively practised 3 times. 3 in succession equals 6 times, 4 in succession equals 10 times, and so on.
To think that [...]
Swimming in a blue ocean strategy
I recently lent my copy of the Blue Ocean Strategy to an entrepreneur, who created a blue ocean strategy himself without realising it! I’m envious of the action he took for the theory that I only found out through books, my main hideout. I don’t want to be a two-legged bookshelf. Fortunately, I’m also practising [...]
Learn from all
My teacher encourages us to learn from all, teachers and students alike. Teachers are just formalised labels by institutions such as colleges, universities, and martial art schools. Students are those that these teachers serve because without the students, there is no one to teach.
It’s good to say all these. But sometimes, that’s all that happens [...]
Bookmarks
Bookmark your books, your websites, your life!
Can self-help really help?
What do you think self-help is for? What have you learnt from it? Do you think self-help materials help? Did it help you?
Where are the good teachers?
Finding good teachers is difficult everywhere. I’ve posted this question to Jarek Szymanski who started the website China From Inside and he too relates to the difficulty of finding a teacher who can teach the basics, even in China! So where are all the good teachers then? Should we wait for the teacher to appear [...]
The good food guide
After writing how to find good teachers in my Tai Ji article, I thought i can extend the same logic in looking for good food. So here goes… signs of good food:
A. lots of people eating it
Power of numbers. Lots of people eating it must be good right? Or the chef’s marketing technique must be [...]
