I’m back in Singapore– it’s good to be home
As I mentioned in my previous post, working with the high school students has been very rewarding, but it hasn’t always been easy.
The experience of the past two months has been a lot of good with some not-so-good thrown in. One of my teammates summed [...]

Over the past five weeks I’ve been part of a team of Duke students that’s been running a college-prep program for Navajo high school students.
As part of the program, we’ve been doing standardized test preparation, teaching college life skills, going on college visits and working on college applications.
The response from our students, however, hasn’t been [...]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
After reading this post by my brother on excellence, I thought of a common problem faced by people who get serious about goal-setting: others think they are “weird” or “lame” or “ridiculous” or “overly ambitious” for putting their goals [...]

Yesterday, I gave a presentation on goal-setting to our students. Goal-setting is something I started practicing three years ago, and it has helped me gain a lot of clarity in determining what is truly important to me and in knowing exactly what kind of person I want to be.
You’ll have to become a bigger person in [...]