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On Personal Growth
How to Lose Friends & Ignore People
⚠️ Caution: this post contains triggering content on trauma that might be upsetting. Who would ever willingly alienate themselves from others, you wonder? Well, you’re right. No one. Yet you’ve probably met at least one person in your life (or it might be you)…
An Open Letter to Your Ego
Dearest ego, I’m writing to remind you, ever so gently, in case no one ever told you, something you need to hear but no one will dare to say; the biggest elephant in the room: that none of what that happened in your early…
Goodbye Perfect, Hello Brave
There are rarely books I read that I feel I want to reflect or write about. But there is one book in particular I recently read that me feel triggered and quite simply, furious. Let me tell you why… I had stumbled upon this…
What 28 Chapters of Life Taught Me
Oscar Wilde once said, “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” I sure hope that’s not the case here. Because over the years, I’d like to think that something deep inside me was unfolding below the chaos of everyday life on this…
A Manifesto for Women in the Arena
We all live with an inner voice that feeds on our fears and insecurities, seeking to protect our egos from every risk, threat or danger. For whatever reason, this inner critic stops a lot more women than men from being in the arena of…
On Being in the In-between
On definitions, labels and the in-between… In this world of extremes, I always find myself in the in-between.I am too sophisticated for the simple-minded and too simple-minded for the sophisticated.I am too liberal for the conservative and too conservative for the liberal.I am too…
On Living What You’ve Learned
Imagine your mind is a room and everything you know is scattered on the floor. Tens of books lying here and there, all open. You start wandering about, glimpsing sentences as you pass them by. It’s amusing at first, you reminisce on the first…
On Holistic Living
On Psychology
On Productivity
Salam! I‘m Yasmine,
a creative generalist from Cairo. 🇪🇬
I design things for a living by day, & reflect on the hypermodern human condition by night. I love to explore ideas on personal growth, holistic living, psychology & productivity.
Yasmine Amin 