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Sinking and Rising: How Mindfulness Changes Our Relationship with Failure

We all have bad days, weeks, months—or even a whole year. (Cue the Friends theme song: “I’ll be there for you…” 🙂 ) And yes, when we fail, we often feel the same: broken, miserable, lost, and upset. But there’s a strange paradox in failure—it can make you feel like you’re sinking, yet somehow, it’s …

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Chinese lessons: don’t try to understand, but try to embrace it with your heart

Hello, my name is Kanat, and I have experience studying at the UCAS China Doctorate, which I would like to share. After searching for various options for doctoral studies, in 2016 I was enrolled in the CSC program at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). The Xinjiang Institute of Environmental Geography in …

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