Julian JP Lee

from the week of 10 November 2025

Cover photo credits: Man Wei (SayurStory)

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.  

—Aristotle

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钟灵毓秀

zhōng líng yù xiù

A place filled with the beautiful spirits of nature will endow and nurture men and women with talent and grace.

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We love imperfection, the right kind of imperfection; we pay up for original art and typo-laden first editions.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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(On fidelity) If you have to ask if it’s cheating, it’s probably cheating.

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Be your antifragile self.

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(On problem-solving) Ask yourself “what would make achieving this goal harder?”Then turn around and run as fast and furiously as you can in the opposite direction.

In other words, direct all your energy to drastically reducing the difficulty for your goal to be achieved. Sooner or later, achieving your goal will be effortless… like walking through an open door.

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This is my goal: to be deeply joyful so that I can help the world be more whole.