I am often asked by my students how can they expand their vocabulary to sound more confident in English. My answer never changes— I say “You should find what works for you”, — cuz as much I wish I told you otherwise, there’s just no universal recipe for nifty writing…

Is this Life Worth Living by Giving? — As long as I remember I was always a self-centered individual. It’s not like I designed myself to be like that but it’s just happened to be this way. In school, I was a “quiet” kid who had a predisposition for sports more than any social interaction with his peers. Filled with insecurities about my looks, I was gradually shying away…

Part 1. — You know, one of the most common questions I get in life is “How do you get certain people to talk to you?” By “certain people”, they mean people of high business/social standing that are uneasy to get to. And yet, even though the odds are usually stacked against me…

It’s 4 AM in the morning, April the 7th and I can't sleep. I need to let something out. This intro, in a very strange but realistic manner brings me closer to one of my idols, the Iconic Kobe Bryant who too, once he had torn his Achilles back in…

My Lessons & Goals for 2023. — We are all occasionally lost. Lost for the absence of understanding. Lost for the absence of guidance. Lost for the absence of support. But most of all, we are lost for the absence of meaning. Each of us makes meaning in his/her own way: it can be big such as…

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” — a phrase I had lived by for almost a decade. After hearing this Oscar Wilde’s quote in my early 20th, I had never had a single doubt: life is worth living when you enjoy it…

Should you do what you love or should you fall in love with what you do already? — This is one of those debatable questions I have been digging into for the last 10 years. And up until now, however, the answer keeps slipping away. To preface this piece of contemplation I must say that the word “work”, for me personally, has always carried a negative connotation —…

Что это для вас? Падение в кроличью нору в опасении худшего? Или попадание в страну чудес ожидая сюрпризов? Осмелюсь заявить, и это будет тезисом №1 в этой статье, что для моих героических сограждан, принятие феномена неизвестности возможно является главным осознанием как для необходимой внутренней трансформации, так и перестройки внешней жизни. …

Self — presentation matters. No matter what you’ve been told — sooner or later in life you’ll have to present yourself either to a prospective employer, clients, investors, or a date. It was not long ago as I was trying to elude this necessity by all means possible — as…