Inspired to create better stories
Hi there, I’m Catt.
A brief history, locationally…
I started my journey in California, but spent most of my life growing up in Taipei. I came back to the US to study for university, and during that time, I spent a semester abroad studying in Milan, Italy, and ended up living there for a few years. In 2019, I moved to London, where I lived for three years, before moving to Massachusetts.
My life in general…
Despite thinking I’m totally the settling type, I’ve been cast as a free-spirit and travelled a lot, living in many different places, and meeting so many different people. I studied many languages and learned about different cultures. Most of all, I took the opportunities to understand different ideologies based on history, geography, language, and the current world hegemony. It’s been an incredibly interesting journey.
My life has been strongly influenced by the ideologies and beliefs that helped my family and I adapt in the world with integrity. I started this self-titled blog in 2014, as a way to document my personal development journey, but it became more of a dedication to writing for me. I believe that writing is the best way to sort out and formulate clear ideas ideas, and I always seek to devote more time to writing a lot of the ideas that are constantly in my mind. Through writing I seek to form those ideas into words with which to be contended and trialed, tested for strength and accuracy. It is my prayer that through the honest sharing of our journeys, we can cultivate the story of a stronger philosophy for humanity together.
With gratitude, love, and appreciation,
Catt xx
On my personal life and philosophies
Academically, I completed my undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics (PPE), and am primarily passionate about economics out of the three disciplines. I love how economics is a theoretical and applicable system that makes sense. Unfortunately, corruption in the world does not allow us to play out the principles of economics. Fortunately, each and every one of us have a hand in contributing to that, and thus, resolving it.
I have strong faith in the world we do not see, and an unrelenting urge to know the truth in a given case or situation. It is never easy to follow principles, but it is clear that it is much worse to not follow them. While I eagerly celebrate different expressions of being human, I am extremely unyielding when it comes to laws and principles, and higher order consequences. It is only through adherence to law that we can build a world that functions with higher levels of Power, Power with which we can continue to evolve into greater expressions and continue to expand creatively upon who we last were, and who we can now become.
I was raised in a Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist religious upbringing, and I have always had a strong affinity to the more traditional Christian religions – Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox – and enjoy studying scripture and examining faith in both the Catholic/Orthodox religions.
I spent a part of my professional career writing marketing stories for people, listening to their experiences and helping them articulate their intentions to create them into stories. I still have many untold stories to write, but it isn’t what I do for work.
Apart from copywriting and marketing, I also coached badminton for two years on the team I played for in high school.
At work now, I work in the software industry as an engineer. I really love this industry, and love how it keeps me on my feet and constantly studying and learning more.
I’ve studied a number of languages. I was born speaking English and Mandarin, and I studied Spanish since I was nine as a second language. My parents paid for my 7pm lessons at a small language school with a few other adults. I learned Italian while living in Italy, and I started studying Russian and Bulgarian when I was living in London.
It’s impossible to know where my life and my ideologies/philosophies will take me next. It always seems like just as I seem to know something, everything around it crashes, and I have to find another way to do things all over again.
That’s why we need principles, and that’s why I’m passionate about first, scouring out my own life to adhere to them as much as I can, second, holding others accountable to them, and third, spreading the word about them.
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