About Me & This Blog
About me
I was born in a small city in northern China and moved to Milan, Italy, at the age of 22 to pursue a master's degree in product design. I have always pondered the meaning of life and sought to understand it through the study of psychology and philosophy. By continuously applying and testing these interpretations in practice, I strive to validate their reasoning while remaining open to new perspectives.
Along this journey, I naturally gravitated towards yoga and meditation, eventually completing several courses to become a mindfulness facilitator. After a few years of working post-graduation, I gained a deeper understanding of myself and realized that my job did not fully align with my values. This realization led me to pursue training as a life coach.
My aspiration is to help people become who they truly want to be, enabling them to thrive and find happiness. At the same time, through working with others, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of the world and of life itself.
Purpose of the website
I hope to use this website as a space to document and share my insights, reflections, and experiences from my journey of learning, thinking, and practice. The topics I may explore include philosophy, psychology, culture, coaching, mindfulness. I also hope to connect with like-minded individuals for meaningful discussions.
I have many visions for this blog—for example, reminding readers of the sustainability of the mind, the value of attention, and how to achieve true personal freedom. To me, this means gaining mastery over oneself—over one’s body, emotions, and thoughts—rather than being trapped by the illusions of the external world.
That said, visions are just possibilities. I embrace the unknown and remain open to all future surprises, choosing not to let careful planning shut the door to unexpected discoveries.
Domain name of the website
Mind sustainability, is one of my ideas. With the development of modern science and technology, many advanced electronic devices and programs have been produced to help people for the convenience and efficiency of all aspects of people's lives. The emergence of these new things not only solves problems and makes people's lives more convenient, but also greatly changes people's daily life and work patterns, which has brought about a series of new phenomena, such as the popularity of portable electronic devices (mobile phones, laptops, tablets, smart watches...), and the emergence of various apps. While social networking and news software allow users to obtain news and consultations in a timely manner, they can also make these messages bombard users' brains all the time. The online transformation of work software and the convenience of communication allow remote work to save people's commuting time and flex working hours, but it also confuses the boundaries between work and life, making many people have to maintain a mental state at work even during off hours. Commercial marketing methods such as various coupon- receiving make people wonder whether they are saving money or wasting money. Every message and pop-up window in app, every advertisement, every article title, every promotional picture, and even the use of app colors are trying to attract more attention from users, defraud more stay time, and strive to make every user into a number to be included in the traffic brigade. With the trend of portable electronic devices spreading from head to toe, these massive amounts of information are also getting all the opportunities get into our brain, overloading our mind.
Fragmented life is dominating our rhythm of life, making us unable to keep our attention on one thing for a long time, and this state has caused us many physical and mental problems. Frequent task switching damages attention resources and memory ability. "Information addiction" means that we are always afraid of missing some information, which distracts our energy and causes inexplicable anxiety. We are eager for quick success and instant benefit; If things go on like this for a long time, there will also be procrastination, decreased creativity and speculative ability, and the possibility of depression. These exhausting things in the mind make us have no time to take care of the present, always have some thoughts or ideas in the mind, either recalling the past, or planning the future, and gradually lose the ability to feel the present, the ability to feel oneself and one’s awareness, and the ability to perceive the surrounding environment, so that one becomes confused, loses the ability to think deeply, tends to follow the crowd, and is more susceptible to the influence of others.
The resources of our mind are not unlimited and cannot be squandered. On the contrary, just like natural resources, we need to use them according to the principle of sustainability in order to ensure long-term and healthy development.
Design Principles
As a designer, I usually see too many cool designs, all kinds of sharp color schemes, newfangled typography layouts, dazzling motion effects, every design is trying to compete for a little bit more attention than other designs. But this website's design forgoes those chances of being cool, referencing design principles from Rohan Gunatillake's team's project Designing Mindfulness-A Mindfulness Everywhere Manifesto. I hope that readers can spend less attention to achieve their goals when browsing this website, can read and think more calmly, and find the functions they want to use and the content they want to read more intuitively and familiarly. Other irrelevant elements would not be wanted to interrupt the flow of reading.
I hope everyone can truly know and care for themselves, allowing their lives to flourish. May people come to realize the sustainability of the mind, cherish their attention, and gradually enhance their awareness and capacity for happiness. No matter how noisy the world around them may be, I wish for everyone to find refuge in the pure sanctuary of their own heart.
