Israa Nasir

Because trying to change the world is a really big ask, but you can try to change your, you can make a small change in your immediate surrounding. So I think it's okay to have livelihood that doesn't include your passion or a service, but try to build that into your life in some way so that you can still get that feeling. And research has shown that

Because trying to change the world is a really big ask, but you can try to change your, you can make a small change in your immediate surrounding. So I think it's okay to have livelihood that doesn't include your passion or a service, but try to build that into your life in some way so that you can still get that feeling. And research has shown that

When we engage in acts of service, when we engage in volunteering or giving back in kind, not just monetarily, it has a very strong impact on our resilience, our hopefulness, optimism, and also physiologically, it helps release stress.

When we engage in acts of service, when we engage in volunteering or giving back in kind, not just monetarily, it has a very strong impact on our resilience, our hopefulness, optimism, and also physiologically, it helps release stress.

When we engage in acts of service, when we engage in volunteering or giving back in kind, not just monetarily, it has a very strong impact on our resilience, our hopefulness, optimism, and also physiologically, it helps release stress.

My family's culture around success is very like hard work driven. So there's a lot of foundational ideas about the importance of hard work, doing things yourself, right? Like being very self-sufficient, thinking about how can you achieve the most that you can within your limitations, constraints, circumstances, whatever it is.

My family's culture around success is very like hard work driven. So there's a lot of foundational ideas about the importance of hard work, doing things yourself, right? Like being very self-sufficient, thinking about how can you achieve the most that you can within your limitations, constraints, circumstances, whatever it is.

My family's culture around success is very like hard work driven. So there's a lot of foundational ideas about the importance of hard work, doing things yourself, right? Like being very self-sufficient, thinking about how can you achieve the most that you can within your limitations, constraints, circumstances, whatever it is.

There was never a pressure on a specific career specifically or an industry to follow, but there was a lot of talk about doing the best, being like more than average. I think that was like a really big part of the way my family's culture operates.

There was never a pressure on a specific career specifically or an industry to follow, but there was a lot of talk about doing the best, being like more than average. I think that was like a really big part of the way my family's culture operates.

There was never a pressure on a specific career specifically or an industry to follow, but there was a lot of talk about doing the best, being like more than average. I think that was like a really big part of the way my family's culture operates.

The turning point for me was around five years ago or something like that, five years ago. I think given the culture that I grew up in, like my family's culture about like hard work and work ethic and doing the best and doing the most and trying to take every opportunity that comes your way, like that kind of stuff.

The turning point for me was around five years ago or something like that, five years ago. I think given the culture that I grew up in, like my family's culture about like hard work and work ethic and doing the best and doing the most and trying to take every opportunity that comes your way, like that kind of stuff.

The turning point for me was around five years ago or something like that, five years ago. I think given the culture that I grew up in, like my family's culture about like hard work and work ethic and doing the best and doing the most and trying to take every opportunity that comes your way, like that kind of stuff.

I think it had created this idea that I have to be doing a lot of things at the same time and that I have to be excelling at all of them and I have to be exceptional in all of them and all of that. And so it was like around a couple of years ago when I started realizing that I had a lot of the things that I was working towards in my 20s, right?

I think it had created this idea that I have to be doing a lot of things at the same time and that I have to be excelling at all of them and I have to be exceptional in all of them and all of that. And so it was like around a couple of years ago when I started realizing that I had a lot of the things that I was working towards in my 20s, right?

I think it had created this idea that I have to be doing a lot of things at the same time and that I have to be excelling at all of them and I have to be exceptional in all of them and all of that. And so it was like around a couple of years ago when I started realizing that I had a lot of the things that I was working towards in my 20s, right?

So I'd achieved the things that I had put my mind towards, and I had ticked off a lot of the checkboxes. But the feelings of something being missing, something not being right, like something feeling really off, like those feelings were still there.

So I'd achieved the things that I had put my mind towards, and I had ticked off a lot of the checkboxes. But the feelings of something being missing, something not being right, like something feeling really off, like those feelings were still there.

So I'd achieved the things that I had put my mind towards, and I had ticked off a lot of the checkboxes. But the feelings of something being missing, something not being right, like something feeling really off, like those feelings were still there.