Happy New Year 2025

December 28, 2015

When an 18 years old youth asked the famous writer Herman Hesse (Siddharta) what he would recommend as the most important life advice, Hesse responded with a quote from Confucius: loyalty to one's self and charity to one's neighbours

I will not wish you good luck for this or any upcoming New Year's Eve. I don’t believe luck to be a necessary ingredient for success. Instead, I wish you the wisdom to make good decisions. Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you.