In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

One of the things meditation gives you is creativity because creativity really comes from the subconscious brain - intuition, imagination - so it's not like you can go there and say, I'm going to go be creative now. Maybe you can, but the real way you get creativity is, you know, you're taking a hot shower and great ideas come to you from the subconscious. Essentially, meditation opens a pipeline between the conscious and the subconscious.

Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.