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Your hard work may turn into nothing of value when it is coming from someone else's mouth. The endless behind-the-scenes efforts in getting something to fruition may be judged by others as something that can be easily done by anyone given enough time and resources. After all, things are always easier said than done. Truth be told, these people, or anyone for that matter, may actually be able to succeed. Only that they lack the necessary actions required for actual execution; only that they lack the undying determination to see it through to the end; only that they lack the fiery passion in them to fuel their ambitions; only that they lack the undaunted courage to continue despite the many struggles; and only that they lack the sincerity to convince others to believe their visions. Credit: Romain Guy (Flickr) Never let those people who can only talk stop you in your tracks. The person that is advancing through your own actions is you and absolutely ...

All of us wish to be perfect but the truth is, none of us really are. In reality, there are some people in your life who see the same vision as you, and some of them obviously don't. It is the blind spots that is the origin of all the inadequacies  in our lives. Deep inside each of us lives a gloomy   shadow . This dark unconscious personality that we do not acknowledge often becomes part of this shadow and manifests itself into our stance towards the people around us.  It would seem that whatever behaviour we may find irritating, or unacceptable on the outside is nothing more than a reflection of a dark part of ourselves. It verges close to impossible for people who are living in today's society to acknowledge the existence of this shadow  since it naturally reflects a less attractive part of ourselves. This further gives us motivation to balk at some of the traits that we do not like about ourselves. We are taught at a young age that we h...

The controversial 21 Grams Theory by Dr. Douglas MacDougall claimed that everyone of us has a soul that weighs 21 grams. Dr. MacDougall tried to prove his theory by conducting the experiment on several patients facing imminent death from tuberculosis in 1901. The experiment was not attempted ever since . This theory has since over the years appeared in many films and novels, including the likes of the 2003 movie  21 grams , and Dan Brown's  The Lost Symbol . Although still very much unproven today, the popularity of it should be undisputed and ought to really pique our interest as to the missing link between life and death.  Credit: Simply Being Spiritual Albert Einstein once stated in physics under the Law of the Conservation of Energy that "Energy cann ot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed into one form or another". So when we die, all of the energy in our body should theoretically be transformed into other forms of energy.  Einstein ...

31st December typically marks the last day of every single year. Traditions would have us believe that on this day, we should come together to celebrate the start of a brand new year. However, the truth is that this day, on 31st December 2015, much like any other day before, has simply transitioned from Thursday to Friday without too much of an impact made to our lives. What is the significance of celebrating on this day then? The countdown of this new day usually prompts us to put aside our day - to - day work and toast our glasses to celebrate. This ubiquitous ritual observed by mankind all around the world must contain some profound relationship on how we behave. Even going back to the early days of Homo sapiens , celebrations such as the triumphant encounter with the wildly beasts have brought together communities, bestowing upon us a sense of fulfilment. Credit: Traveljee As for New Year's Day, it  is about celebrating the completion of another milestone in our...

In today's information driven society, there exists an illness regarding our existence. We have this fear that our existence are being eliminated by the constant flooding of information coming at us from all direction. We are also afraid of not being able to catch up with the times as technology advances at rapid speed. Those are the reasons why most of us tend to take photographs of our meals, tag ourselves wherever we go, just so that, through social medias, everyone would hopefully remember that we even exist in this world. Human existence in entirety seems to have evolved into a spiritual crisis in modern society. Credit: Zen Gardner Now, imagine your boss asks you to complete a project assignment. You devote to it wholeheartedly but nobody has ever bothered to ask anything about it for 40 odd years, how would you feel? What kind of human existence would you consider it to be if you have put in decades of your life into contributing to an important project assignmen...

We are all addicted to something. Whether it is for good or bad, we should accept that we almost always do it in order to experience pleasure as an after-effect. If we get what we want, we feel pleased and the pleasure we get as a result reinforces the idea of wanting ever more. That mental representation of some desired state will linger in our minds and cause us to direct our energy to realise it. Life certainly has a funny way of dealing with our addiction in obtaining pleasure. Just when we thought we are smart enough to escape the evil claws of our addictions , we soon realise the resulting pleasure does not last long despite the major events that take place in our lives. We, as humans, have the tendency to focus very much on making changes and it is this ability to adapt that limits our opportunities for very lasting pleasures. We find ourselves quickly conforming to these incoming pleasures that we were once convinced they will bring, only to repeatedly finding ourselv...

In the famous Marshmallow experiment conducted by psychologist  Walter Mischel in the 1960s, he attempted to find out the correlation between a person's ability to wait out their temptations for a bigger rewards and their eventual life outcomes. The children were given a marshmallow in front of them and were told to wait for the researchers to come back before they can eat it. If they were able to resist eating the marshmallow after the researchers came back after a period of time, they would received another marshmallow as a reward. As expected, some children were able to wait and some could not. Over the course of this whole experimentation, Walter Mischel and his team realised that children who were able to resist the temptation of eating the marshmallow in front of them tend to perform better in life when they are older. This is widely termed as "Delayed Gratification", which simply means the ability to reject instant reward in exchange for a larger reward in the...