“Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded for...” — Mary H.K. Choi Quote

Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different.

Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.

As a consumer, I love superheroes.

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Without judging anyone, communication is so important for a coach.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.