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Being in the final semester of my undergraduate degree, I have never felt the intensity and duration of exhaustion as I have felt of all my university life. Each semester, the competition becomes stiffer and stiffer as the cohort becomes more intelligent and hardworking as the university fails more and more people in every subject you take. Expectations become higher, where you have no other option but to carry on. During high school, I held the belief that with hard work and a laser dedication towards work ethic, I could do anything. Now I realise that though this statement may be true, but at what cost? Costs such as friendships, sanity, physical, and mental health. In speculation of these costs, is it really worth it?

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Thinking on your feet is one of the most essential life skills we could ever acquire. Whether it is high-stress situations such as a job interview or talking in front of a group – to more mellow settings such as a dinner conversation – thinking on our feet is certainly a trait that we should constantly nurture and improve upon. This life skill is encompassed in skills that are known as transferrable skills – being skills that will certainly pay dividends many years into the future if we invest the time and effort to improve day by day. Developing such a broad skill as thinking on your feet will take time, but the rewards will certainly be bountiful.  

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Imagine your family buys a new car. It is pristinely new and scintillating in the bright light of day. Equipped with many new bells and whistles in which technology has improved drastically, it is much the upgrade. Because it is new, you don’t want to get it dirty. You drive it carefully. This works for a few days, but how about a few weeks, or even a few months? You’ve gotten used to it, where you are more or less at the same level of happiness before getting the new car.

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As humans, we tend to be self-centered creatures. If this statement does not seem valid to us at first glance, an important question to ask is what proportion of our thoughts involve us compared to others? I would argue that it would be the vast majority of them.

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“Where you are is partially defined by where you are not. When you’re somewhere, you’re not somewhere else. But when you use your phone, you’re everywhere. You keep in touch with friends. You hear what’s going on at home. You see the screen exactly as you do anywhere else.” – Derek Sivers, “Travel without a phone”

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Having spent a good year listening to audiobooks, I thought it may be a good time to observe its utility for me over the past year, especially if there is a clear cut option that suits me? Note that this is purely an anecdotal standpoint, and what works for me would not work for you as everyone will have their own style and habits of reading. So here we go.

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What is the point of life if it goes so fast and you don’t have enough time to reflect and learn the lessons from it? If you have so many things going on and everything is a blur, a deep-seated irony is that it feels like nothing has happened at all.

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Having gone on a Christian Union camp last week, I had come to this profound realisation that camps are pretty awesome.

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