The 12 Pillars of Life🔆

JUKY CHEN
3 min readDec 19, 2021

Story📔

Recently, I had been struggling a lot with soldering my BCI headset with all those intricate points on the NeuroSky chip. I believe I did everything that I could to progress: I asked my friend Apoorva for help, hunted YouTube videos, consulted with my father, an engineer; however, I still could not finish the task. With all the headaches of the world, I decided to rely on my ultimate solution: Go to a hardware store and ask someone to solder the headset for me.

Surprisingly, the two closest hardware stores do not offer that kind of service. I was deeply disappointed by that news but at the same time, I felt a daytime nightmare. I will have to solder it by myself!? For a moment, I was deep down inside and depressed in a way that cannot see my future.

On the way home walking through the dreadful tunnel of life, a honk? woke me up while crossing the street unaware of the surrounding. An epiphany came up to mind: “I am not going to let this little obstacle define me. I worked so hard to come to the US, to join TKS then velocity, to research the HOWs of my project. I will challenge the status quo for the better.”

Immediately, I went back to the hardware stores to consult about soldering. Interestingly enough, my passion and ambition while describing my project to the store attendant led to vivid occurrences. As I showcased my project, the customer beside me got curious and offered me to buy whatever is needed for my project. I felt intrinsically enlightened. Now I have one more reason to keep going. I am so grateful for that gentleman’s support and generosity.

Epiphany💡

  1. When are more willing to help you, if you are working on something higher than just yourself. If you are on a mission of contributing to something by showing its potential, people will help you even though you did not ask.
  2. Show your work, effort, and problem. The world will automatically offer help
  3. Success is not just about money and fame. For me, success in life is more than your own physical and reputation. There are 12 realms of life according to Joh and missy butcher

Questions⁉

  1. How to accept help from the universe? Notice that users accept and do not get. Help is all around you. What is needed is to identify them and absorb that energy. It all comes down to awareness.

Mindset🧠 & Intention🛣 of the DAY

Mindset Merge= Done better than perfect + Bias Toward Action + FIO (Figure it Out)

⚓Challenge

Comment on one of the questions above and start a conversation with your friends by sharing this article. Remember: We learn the most by sharing and teaching. Keep up with that mindset🧠!

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JUKY CHEN

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