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Co-founder & CEO @intellectHQ | Building Asia's largest mental healthcare company | YC, Tiger Global backed | 4M+ lives served | Forbes30u30
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Apr 8 21 tweets 6 min read
Red light therapy is the wellness world's secret weapon.

It reduces inflammation, heals damaged tissues, enhances brain function (& addresses problems pills often can't).

The best part? You can do it at home and results appear within 1-2 weeks.

Here's the complete beginner's guide: 🧵Image The discovery of red light therapy was actually an accident.

In 1967, Hungarian physician Endre Mester was trying to use lasers to treat tumors in rats. The lasers didn't affect the tumors, but he noticed something unexpected:

The treated areas showed accelerated hair growth and faster wound healing. This serendipitous finding changed everything...
Apr 3 21 tweets 7 min read
Your neck probably looks like this right now:

Forward-head-position is killing your body.

It makes you less intelligent...

And increases your risk of injury.

4 ways to fix your posture and reverse nerd neck: 🧵 Image I've spent years working on my posture.

But when I looked in the mirror last month, I saw it – the dreaded nerd neck.

That forward head posture everyone warns about.

After obsessively researching solutions, I discovered something shocking.

Nerd neck doesn't just affect how you look. Here's what no one tells you:
Mar 25 14 tweets 4 min read
This guy made an app that lets you build the next Uber in just 20 minutes:

Without writing a single line of code.

It's so powerful that it's making Google engineers obsolete.

Here's the story behind the fastest-growing startup of 2025: 🧵 Image Meet Anton Osika.

In 2023, he created GPT Engineer - a side project built over a single weekend.

Within days, it exploded to 52,000 stars on GitHub.

But that was just the beginning...
Mar 18 28 tweets 9 min read
He escaped Vietnam in a tiny boat with a 50% survival rate.

Spent 10 months in a refugee camp in Indonesia.

34 years later, he was personally hired by Uber's founder to become CTO.

Here are 7 leadership lessons from Thuan Pham's extraordinary journey 🧵: Image Thuan Pham's story begins in 1979, when he fled Vietnam as a 10-year-old refugee.

His escape was harrowing - crammed into a wooden fishing boat with 470 others, described as "sardines in a can."

The conditions were horrific. No sanitation. Constant seasickness.

And a survival rate of just 50%.
Mar 6 20 tweets 6 min read
What's killing the modern family isn't divorce.

It's a silent addiction that society masks as completely normal.

MIT research shows it's destroying emotional parent-child connections.

The generational damage has already begun - but it's not too late to reverse it: Image When we talk about addiction, we think of substances.

Alcohol. Nicotine. Drugs.

But the most pervasive addiction of our time is happening in plain sight.

It's socially acceptable. Culturally encouraged. Even professionally required.

And that's what makes it so dangerous...
Feb 20 17 tweets 5 min read
Your 7-year-old self is controlling your life.

Science shows your emotional patterns were programmed before you could choose them.

It's why billionaires still feel like failures.

Here's why reprogramming your brain is crucial for your success (and how you can do it): Image Your inner voice isn't really yours.

It's a collection of voices from your past - parents, teachers, friends, and experiences that shaped you.

Just like you weren't born speaking English, you weren't born with your inner dialogue.

But here's where it gets fascinating:
Feb 18 19 tweets 6 min read
Soviet coaches discovered the secret to dominating athletics.

It helped their athletes win more medals with less training.

When Western experts discovered the method, they were speechless.

Here's the performance protocol the Soviets were hiding for 80 years: Image Between 1952 and 1988, Soviet athletes dominated track & field.

They won 64 gold medals in Olympic track & field events.

Their method shocked the athletic world:

Their athletes trained significantly less than Western competitors.
Feb 11 20 tweets 6 min read
Your morning routine is killing your productivity.

The first 60 minutes after waking determine your daily energy levels.

But you're making ONE mistake that's destroying everything.

Use this FREE science-backed hack to feel superhuman again: Image Andrew Huberman has been studying sleep and energy optimization for years.

He discovered this disturbing truth:

Most people make a critical mistake in the first hour of waking that destroys their energy levels.

But first, let's understand how your body actually works...
Feb 4 19 tweets 6 min read
72% of founders are suffering in silence.

They're forced to hide the problem.

Because in the startup world, vulnerability is seen as a weakness.

This is the dark side of entrepreneurship that Silicon Valley doesn't want you to know: Image I know this firsthand.

Struggled with chronic anxiety since my teens.

Had my first panic attack at 16.

That's when I learned: mental health support was broken.

But what I discovered next changed everything:
Jan 16 17 tweets 5 min read
This guy grew up with a depressed mother and a struggling father.

By age 12, he noticed something strange about his mind.

This observation led to the greatest breakthrough in psychology.

Carl Jung's incredible story and what it means for you: Image In the late 1800s, Europe was in the middle of a scientific revolution.

Doctors were starting to understand the human body.

But the human mind remained a mystery - a black box that no one couldn't crack.

Until one Swiss boy's personal struggle changed everything...
Jan 7 21 tweets 6 min read
"You're either growing or dying."

- Lou Holtz, who turned losing teams into champions

Science found this happens in our minds:
Before 25: Growth mode
After 25: Survival mode

Here's the psychological shift that changes everything: Image To understand this shift, watch a child learning to walk:

They fall 100 times. Get up 101 times.

No fear of failure. No self-doubt.

Just pure, unfiltered growth mindset.

But something happens as we age that changes everything...
Jan 2 20 tweets 5 min read
This neuroscientist analyzed 18,000 brain scans.

What he discovered about meditation shocked the medical community.

His research at UC San Diego proved something nobody thought possible.

8 insights from Dr. Joe Dispenza's work on rewiring the brain: 🧵 Image In 2010, Dispenza began his research journey.

He proposed that our thoughts could change our biology.

Many were skeptical of his claims.

Years of research and thousands of brain scans later, his findings drew attention from major institutions.
Dec 17, 2024 19 tweets 6 min read
A CEO in Tokyo taught me that success isn't about hustling 24/7.

After spending 6 months in Japan, I learned a different approach to life, work, and health.

It's not just about living longer - it's about living better.

Here are 4 transformative habits that changed everything: Image My day used to look like this:

6am: Rush to gym
8am-10pm: Back-to-back meetings
11pm: Still answering emails before crashing at midnight

I thought this was normal. Even felt proud of it.

Then Japan changed everything...
Dec 11, 2024 15 tweets 5 min read
Imagine turning a poor fishing village into one of the richest nations on Earth.

With no natural resources.

This is the story of how one man did exactly that: Image It's 1965. Singapore is in crisis.

Raw sewage flows through muddy streets. Clean water is scarce. Electricity, a luxury.

Different ethnic groups are at war. Unemployment is at 14%. The average person earns $500/year.

Most predicted collapse.
Dec 10, 2024 14 tweets 5 min read
I'm 28.

At 16, I dropped out of high school while struggling with debilitating anxiety.

Then I discovered Viktor Frankl's work on finding meaning through suffering & built Asia's largest mental health startup.

Here's how Frankl's lessons changed my life: Image At 16 years old, I was having panic attacks in class.

Heart racing. World spinning. I couldn't breathe.

My teachers called it rebellion and my parents thought it was a phase.

But it was the beginning of transformation...
Dec 5, 2024 15 tweets 5 min read
This is Matthew Walker.

Berkeley's top sleep scientist discovered something terrifying:

Just one night of bad sleep rewires your brain to take bigger risks.

Here's what sleep deprivation does to your mind (and how to protect yourself): Image Walker spent 20 years studying sleep at Harvard, Berkeley, and Cambridge.

His research revealed a disturbing truth:

Your brain starts malfunctioning after just ONE night of poor sleep.

And you won't even notice it happening...
Dec 2, 2024 17 tweets 5 min read
I've studied happiness for over 10 years.

The shocking truth?

Everything we know about being happy is wrong.

Here's what ancient cultures knew that modern psychology forgot: Image Modern psychology has spent billions researching happiness.

We've created countless interventions, therapies & frameworks to make people happier.

Yet studies show these interventions are LESS effective than they were 20 years ago.

You might wonder how that's even possible... Image
Nov 27, 2024 17 tweets 5 min read
At Steve Jobs's memorial service, all 500 guests were gifted one book.

Steve read it every year for 38 years.

Here are 5 ideas from the book he used to build his trillion-dollar empire: Image
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The book was "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda.

It wasn't just another self-help book though, it was Steve's guide to:

• Challenging the status quo
• Trusting his intuition
• Building the future

Let's break it down:
Nov 26, 2024 15 tweets 5 min read
Most founders copy Silicon Valley.

I built my startup the Singapore way instead.

Here's how I turned my panic attacks into a 9-figure mental health company: Image At 16, I had my first panic attack.

The same year, I dropped out of Singapore's most prestigious school.

Everyone told me that I needed to follow the traditional path:

Top grades → Top university → Safe career

But I knew I wanted to build things instead.
Oct 29, 2024 17 tweets 5 min read
The man who heals what doctors can't:

Gabor Mate.

He made a shocking discovery on curing trauma after working with 1000 patients.

Here are the methods that led this holocaust survivor to become the most sought after mental health expert ever (and how you can heal yourself): Image First, let's talk about Maté's shocking discovery.

When he worked with thousands of patients, he noticed something the medical system missed:

Most illnesses aren't chemical imbalances.

They're your body's response to unresolved trauma: