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I try to read a lot, and I try to take notes along the way, though sometimes it doesn't work out that well 🙈. 


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My Relationship with Self-Help Books

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Secrets of Successful Teens  by Adam Khoo My first "self-help" book was Secrets of Successful Teens by Adam Khoo. It was about how to take charge of your life, make many friends and get along with parents. I loved the book because Adam shared a lot about his rocky teenage years, where he was failing all the subjects in school and had a bad relationship with his dad. I first read it when I was 13, and the book really spoke to me. It was then when I learnt about setting goals, time management and how to study well. When I had finished the book, I reread some of the chapters whenever I needed guidelines. It was my handbook to survive and thrive in my teenage years.  Secrets of Successful Teens was the book that made me believe that self-help books could really change my life. Today, I would say I was not quite right, but not entirely wrong either.  I have had my fair share of self help books:  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, How to Win Friends and Influence P...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?

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Reading a few science-y books got me thinking about the question of Origin: where did everything come from? What was there before the Big Bang?  I went digging around the Internet, hoping to find some interesting theories. But to my disappointment, it seems as if physicists were quite conservative in coming up with theories to answer this question. (Perhaps I should turn to Sci-fi or mythologies to satisfy my thirst for mind-blowing conspiracies.)  I have summarised some of the main theories below: Cyclic Model (the Big Bounce) The ancient Hindu cosmology  says that the universe is eternal, consisting of infinite series of cycles. In modern cosmology, physicists have come up with similar models as well. One of the famous bounce cosmologist, Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University, wrote a paper in 2002 on " A Cyclic Model of the Universe " with Neil Turok of Perimeter Institue in Waterloo. We propose a cosmological model in which the universe undergoes an endless seq...
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