BIG THANKS to Xin Yee and Leonard for joining me for a random conversion and indulging my podcast addiction lol - it was mainly a catch-up session with one of the very first people I've met in university.
I'd previously met them at the National University of Singapore Business School and we were group mates for a university module back then - this podcast serves as an informal reflection over our university days as well as what lies ahead for us in the future :)
Xin Yee currently works at P&G while Leonard is at Mondelez - all very reputable FMCG companies; it's funny how I'd chosen a very different path from what they're doing right now!
If there is one thing I learned in this podcast, is that human beings are naturally creative people - and we all exhibit our creativity in different ways - whether that being baking, cooking, drawing, rock-climbing or podcasting, there is always this innate desire for us to create things and I find that fascinating as I've always been addicted to the power of creating things and making stuff happen - it's interesting to see how a variety of interests light us up on 'fire' for different people in different ways. If you're ever bored with life, create stuff, creating things, try new hobbies - you never know how helpful they would be in the future ahead! :)
0:00 Introduction 1:47 Pushing Back Starting Work Before Graduation 3:25 Being Plant Parents 10:22 Pursuing Hobbies outside Work: Drawing + Rock Climbing and Lessons Learned 17:02 3 Key Areas How Passion For Drawing Helps Leonard at Work 20:21 How Random Hobbies Complement Every Other Thing In Life 20:53 Brief Introduction of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann 22:17 Why Rock-Climbing? 22:36 Lessons from Rock-Climbing 37:55 Pairing up seemingly unrelated things together and how it has benefitted our lives :) 42:35 Importance of manifesting our interests outside professional work 43:27 Importance of Practicing the correct things to perfect correct things 45:09 Best Advice
