A Few Things to Remember

Don't Strive for Certainty.

This is kind of meaningful to me. Living in Japan has made me realize how annoying uncertainty can be. Cultural differences and its consequences suck. But they make you grow and broaden perspectives. From now on I will try to embrace encertainy and instead of engaging in deep thinking, I'll just do whatever my instincts tell me to (unless they tell me to think - I think this will happen again...but I'll try at least to be aware in the moment).

Learn From Every Experience

I definetely need to try new things. To try and to fail more. I am planning some new things for the next few months. I also need to improve human relationships, my group of friends is pretty much perfect, but I want to go out more with them so I litererally need to work more.

Give Yourself Permission to Expand Your World

This is what I already do well. Books on different subjects. Different TV shows. Asking questions to friends from other cultures and to myself. I strive to break my own status quo. Not necessarily the patterns the society demands, but my own. I still need to reach new heights, with new experiences and new feelings, as I have mentioned above.

Living in a country with a culture completely different from my own is rather important and I think that what I'm learning here will make an impact in me for the rest of my life. 

From the book How Successful People Think, an easy to read and thought-provoking book. I like it.