The Need to Create

Tag: self

  • To law or not to law: End Note

    When I started this series, Dean told to me right away that I am not the lawyer type. He is right. But at that time, I said, even eventually I decided not to do law, at least I want to know why I am not going to do it. This is a big decision, and…

  • To Law or Not to Law: The moment of Choice

    No passion, no enthusiasm, too practical, too little space for creativity. Simply put, law is not my thing.

  • To Law or Not to Law: The Pursuit of Happiness

    …I don’t know if Momma was right or if, if it’s Lieutenant Dan. I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. — Forrest Gump, in Forrest Gump 1994…

  • Tinnitus

    The doctor said it is an infect inside the middle ear, and he gave me antibiotics. One choice: take the antibiotics. It is going to affect my stomach and my normal life. Second choice: take more rests and let the body immune system takes over. I am going to take the second one. My experiment…

  • To Law or Not to Law: Values

    They are the hardest things to figure out, and yet require the least amount of thinking. Steve Jobs’s resounding statement “you know it when you find it” makes it sound so simple, but it does require quite certain amount of inner struggles, as Jobs himself exemplifies. Knowing whether or not I love what I am…

  • To Law or Not to Law: Personality

    Accountants: 64% ST; 23% SF; 4% NF; 9% NT; Bank employees: 47% ST; 24% SF; 11% NF; 18% NT; Sales, customer relations: 11% ST; 81% SF; 8% NF; 0% NT; Creative writers: 12% ST; 0% SF; 65% NF; 23% NT; Research Scientists: 0% ST; 0% SF; 23% NF; 77% NT; Law students: 31% ST; 10%…

  • To Law or Not to Law

    On May 21st, I will have my PhD oral exam, which means I will graduate in one year. Once again, I am put on a crossroad. There are several options. Two stand out. First, do a postdoc and pursue an academic position. Second, do a Law degree and find a legal related job. It is…

  • Missing a flight, again

    Missing a flight, again

    I was 10 minutes late for my flight to San Fransisco this morning. The flight was on 9:30am. I know that I have absolutely no excuse to miss a flight not so early. But…. So for the second time in my life, I missed a flight. It seems to be the kind of mistakes that…

  • Critical Self-assessment — Spiritual

    When I tell my parents that I have advanced to another belt in TKD, my father likes to remind me that the purpose of martial arts is not to get a belt or even to know how to fight. Instead, it is a way to keep fit and to discipline the body; it is to…

  • Critical Self-assessment — Professional

    Having the first paper accepted, published, and printed, naturally I felt a sense of relief. When I started out, I was told that if one didn’t get a paper out after the second year, the pressure would mount quickly. It surely did. Now after the first project, I am more or less free to do…