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Chiara Cokieng

📍 Berlin, Germany

Review: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

A stoic man’s reminders to himself. It’s amazing how someone, an emperor, who lived in 2nd century AD would have the same neuroses and issues as us. Read to both change your mindset and develop habits of thinking that will transform your life. Laziness / procrastination / akrasia, ambition, peace

Review: The The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Ryan Holiday sums it well: “Goddamn, TR was a good man [http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2014/02/25-recommendations-for-life-changing-biographies-for-voracious-readers/] .” Roosevelt was a man of intelligence and action. He became known as a man who was willing to do unpopular things. He livedin

Serendipity and other overrated things

New York City 1. Serendipity 2. Independent travel 3. Walking off the beaten path For almost 2 hours, I walked 2 miles from East Village to Wall Street in New York City. These are the times when you’re supposed to have epiphanies, discover the city’s secrets, and find

You suck at meeting new people, and it's not your fault

Designing your life so you’re spending it with high quality people (i.e. networking) is one of the most high-impact things you could be doing… But at no point in life did anybody teach us to network and seek people out intentionally. Instead, we’ve been trained to

10 fears disguising as plain, old bad habits

I used to think bad habits such as procrastination and not eating healthy are the consequences of a lack of will or discipline. But ever since I stopped accepting them at face value and started looking for the fear, I found them. Here’s 10 of the ‘bad habits’ I

Don't forget the human on the other side of the screen

My biggest breakthrough in copywriting and marketing. Here it is: Regardless of how many people I am writing to, there’s only one person on the receiving end. And… * She isn’t aware of how many people you are writing to. * She doesn’t like being a mere line item

Today, I am happy with myself

Which is very rare. Sebastian suggested I track my time [http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-evolution-of-my-timehabitlife-tracking?_] so I can find out and optimize where it’s going. Here’s the theory: I’m guessing I’m spending 2 hours working on something, but the reality is I

Things that scared me today

Sending out an email and cc-ing Sebastian and Kai so they can help me improve my email outreach. Realizing I wasn’t doing as much work as I thought I was, and admitting it. Getting on a call with a friend’s friend, someone who generously offered to host

Recognize the fear keeping you stuck

I’ve always seen myself as brave. I used to be scared of the dark so I challenged myself to tiptoe our second floor every midnight until it no longer scared me. I knew quitting my comfortable corporate job was scary, so I said fuck it and quit it. I

The "little things" that cause most relationships to fail

When a couple says there’s no specific reason why they broke up, they think they’re unique. That commonly, there’s a reason why. But from what I’ve seen and heard, the reason is usually “just little things that build up.” And I think this is what “the