As university students, one of the most useful habits is listening to each life story that others share with you. Instinctively, you want to listen only to the ‘successful’ people: the artists with multi-million followers, the scholars who shift paradigms, or the millionaire entrepreneurs who started from nothing. After all, we can only learn success […]
Navigating Faith in Your 20s: Becoming a Less Bad Muslim
Being less bad Muslims does not sound inspiring. It is, however, a fair starting point for many, especially if you are in your late teens and early twenties. The reason is, you are at that mercurial stage of figuring out who you want to become. And wanting to become good Muslims can be emotionally expensive. […]
People You Don’t Like Make You Better
The more you interact with others, the more you will find people you don’t like. Two things might happen: One, you would follow your default impulse, which is to mentally attack them, creating a wall between the egos — I versus you, us versus them. Or two, you can use that encounter to deepen your […]
A Learner’s Guide to Mastering Forgiveness (When It is Bloody Hard)
Embodying forgiveness is difficult at times; our mind knows that resentment is a cancerous aspect of the ego, but our heart refuses to let it go. When I am struggling with it, I guide myself with these ideas. Of course, these ideas are not apps that we can click and make us forgive immediately. As […]
Adverts, Gruen Transfer and Being a Better Thinker
People think adverts don’t make us buy things; they just inform us about products. When we regret that purchase, all the blame is on us. That is not true. Adverts don’t just tell us about products. They are consciously designed to compel us to buy them. Corporations spend over $1.07 trillion to make this happen.1See […]