Hi! I currently work in consulting, but beyond that, I’m a designer, writer, and artist. I find the most joy in learning about interesting concepts that allow me to have a more fulfilling experience of existence. I love contemplating fate, eternity, love, and loss.
book recommendations
- To learn how to love myself
- The Courage to Be Disliked: helped me undo some of my stubborn beliefs and view life as a series of moments with no pressure of an end goal
- To learn how to love another with my whole being
- Letters to a Young Poet: poetic
- All About Love: easy to digest
- In Praise of Love & The Agony of Eros: philosophical
- To learn stillness
- The Dao De Jing 道德經: the art of acting without expectations
- What the Buddha Taught: you don’t have to be Buddhist to benefit from these teachings if you approach the religious terms as metaphors used to describe the indescribable experience of being
- To see the beauty in the mundane
- The Count of Monte Cristo: what a journey!
- Letters to a Young Poet: there is beauty in everything, says Rilke
- Border State: dense but beautiful prose, an amazing experience if you like visual and visceral imagery
- Too Loud a Solitude
- To understand the pain of others
- To make sense of life
- To become a more proactive person