If you feel like you need to get your life all figured out but haven't, this episode is for you.
In our chat with Ling Ling, we discover:
✅ The balance between having a plan and going with the flow
✅ Being good/average at everything vs being GREAT at ONE thing
✅ What to do when you are at life’s crossroads
☝️‼️We also get an insider view of how to answer this classic question from a job recruiter: Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years' time? ?

About Ling Ling
Ling is a seasoned learning and development professional, a former electronics engineer, and is transitioning into cultural psychology. Ling's career spans a variety of areas including manufacturing, travel, humanitarianism, and education. Since 2005, she has facilitated and delivered programs in 21 countries across four continents. Eventually, she founded Culture Spark Global, a learning and development company focused on developing intercultural skills for an inclusive and equitable world.
Originally from Malaysia, Ling lived in Australia, Canada, the USA, Singapore, the UK, and Serbia and currently resides in Portugal.
Ling has an MSc in Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and currently pursuing an MPsy in Intercultural Relations in Portugal. She is a member of the British Psychology Society, International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and International Council of Psychologists.
Previously, she hosted a popular podcast called Leaders of Learning. Currently, she writes on her personal blog Miss Elle Tea about anything and everything that tickles her curiosity.
Daily, she learns Ashtanga yoga and practices Vipassana.
Connect with her on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Special thanks to our sponsors for this podcast: 
Alvin Chan, Tan Jia Yee, Siau Yan Chen, Tan Key Seng, Ven You Guang.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3UeFvjo

Timestamp: 
(1:26): Ling Ling - An Engineer, a Psychologist, and a Genius?
(2:39): If you choose between planning and being spontaneous, what would you choose?
(3:39): Life doesn’t always work out according to the plan
(4:56): Meeting Vipassana meditation
(9:16): Gradual change to the middle path
(11:36): Serendipity
(11:42): What do you want to do in 5 or 10 years?
(14:41): Courage and necessity
(20:15): The challenges in walking a different path from everyone else
(21:49): The one question to make you certain about your decision
(22:34): Which path should you choose? 
(24:21): Which is better: A jack of all trades or a master of one? 
(25:53): Finding the strengths that you bring to the table
(31:05): What is the one skill everyone should possess?
(32:08): Mindfulness
(35:57): Do you have any advice on how to get unstuck?
(36:29): Contingencies and exit plans
(38:05): Life is really not sure.
(39:47): This one Buddhist philosophy will change your life