What I work on and what I care about.

In 2021, I studied Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MasterClass on mindfulness and meditation. At the time, I did not think of it as career development. Looking back, it became something more foundational: a way of learning how to protect my inner worth, pay attention to my inner well-being, and gradually build the mental strength I would rely on later in life.

What stayed with me was not simply meditation as a practice. It was the idea that strength also comes from awareness — from being able to observe what is happening inside us without immediately being carried away by it.

MasterClass also gave me an unusual form of education. I listened to people such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dan Brown, James Cameron and other remarkable thinkers and creators talk about how they see, create and make sense of the world.

That experience still fills me with gratitude. From Vietnam, far from many of the places where these people lived and worked, I could sit quietly and learn directly from some of the greatest minds in the world. Listening to them did not give me a conventional qualification. It gave me something more personal: connection, perspective, curiosity and room for my own inner growth.