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More About Me

I'm passionate about

I love talking and learning about how to master our mind effectively. I have strong interests in learning the art of influencing other people, both on mass and individual level.

Talk to me about

How you are living your dreams.
How you learn and cultivate your skills.
How you change your and other people's lives.
What you learned from the successes and failures of you and others.

People don't know that I'm good at

Visualization. Mentoring for personal growth. Goal setting and realization. Seeing events in the world in a systemic view. Seeing big pictures.

My TED Story

I love TED since I came here for the first time in November 2007. Over and over again, I'm amazed by the great ideas we have here. These ideas gave me insights and inspirations that helped my personal growth.

Right now, I am seeking creative ways to act on these ideas in my personal life and business.

Comments

• TEDCred score: +24.00 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• +4

  A comment on Talk: Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of time

  Jun 23 2009: " Life is divided in to three periods - that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present time is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain...
  
  For the past is the one over which Fortune has lost control, is the one which cannot be brought back under any man's power. But men who are engrossed lose this; for they have no time to look back upon the past, and even if they should have, it is not pleasant to recall something they must view with regret."
  
  --- Seneca
• +3

  A reply on Talk: Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of time

  Jun 23 2009: Could it be that there are different "Optimal Time Profiles" for different types tasks?
• +2

  A comment on Talk: Felix Dennis: Odes to vice and consequences

  Jun 5 2009: Enjoyable poem. Felix Dennis is such an interesting (and somehow eccentric) figure. Even his book How to Get Rich is dramatically different from other books on the same topic.
• +1

  A comment on Talk: Kaki King rocks out to "Pink Noise"

  May 30 2009: She redefined "guitar virtuosity". Absolutely beautiful performance.

• A comment on Talk: Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything

  Apr 16 2009: Interesting video! It clarified some points that were unclear to me after reading Tim's book and blog.
  
  I've been deeply influenced by Timothy Ferriss and Josh Waitzkin, two practitioners of accelerated learning skills. In Tim's own terms: the explicit learning approaches they use are seemingly different, but the implicit similarities between their approaches are interesting.
• +1

  A comment on Talk: Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human

  Apr 16 2009: Gregory Stock showed very clear understanding of both biotechnology advancement and human nature. He believes in the beauty within our desire and behavior, as well as the flaws in them. Even more, he has an unusual long-term perspective towards the advance of human evolution and technology advance in the future.
  
  He is wise - so much that he was brave and honest enough to raise questions to all of us, asking us to face a probable future of wider applications of biotech. It's just too bad that honesty is rarely appreciated nowadays.

• A comment on Talk: Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars

  Apr 13 2009: Brilliant. Persuasive. Visionary.
  
  I'm not hoping it will work. I'm actually convinced that it will work.
• +6

  A comment on Talk: Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing

  Apr 10 2009: Interesting talk. At the end, letters and journals tell stories of our lives to our beloved ones after we pass away. They are, indeed, our conversations with the future.
  
  That's why I also love letters and have actually written a lot of letters to my future self.

• A comment on Talk: Emily Levine's theory of everything

  Apr 10 2009: I'm a trickster by nature. Sometimes it is not easy to hold up to being different and outside the system - the majority always want tricksters to comply. But as Emily Levine, I feel at home in TED.
  
  BTW, excellent storytelling.
• +1

  A comment on Talk: Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"

  Apr 8 2009: Amazing talk. This finding has the potential to reshape the whole medical world as we know it.