In the weeks leading to the mark of Own Your Story’s (OYS) first anniversary in August, I found myself lost… again. Instead of mesmerising the wonderment in our journey, I was troubled by the urge of monetizing it and turning it into a business, showered in many well-intentioned advices and couldn’t hear my own voice. During the…
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Why is a safe space so rare and so important?
I always feel that going through a minor depression and hitting the rock bottom was the best thing that ever happened to me. In the process of letting go of everything and restarting on a blank page, I discovered the most precious life lesson — I am in charge of my life! It was an important turning…
How can we build a community that ACTUALLY connects people?
In his global best-selling book ‘Sapiens’, the world’s renowned historian Yuvah Noah Harari said that we, the Homo Sapiens, are able to dominate the world because of 2 things that we do extremely well — storytelling and cooperation. These are the exact ingredients that enabled us to build trust and connection with one another so that we…
What risk would you take to change your world?
“You change the world when you create something that never exists before.” — Srinivas Rao When Frankie and I started Own Your Story community event, we were not inspired by such a noble reason. We both spent a lot of time figuring out ourselves, went through 10-days of silence in Vipassana meditation, felt that something is missing in our society…