the unlearning life
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The Unlearning Life is a collection of insights to help you live a more fulfilling and happy life.
It is about philosophy, business, mindfulness, entrepreneurship, love, and much, much more.
Hello there. My name is Yang Zheng. I am an entrepreneur, investor, mindfulness practitioner, and the founder of The Unlearning Life.
I have always been deeply curious about life. What I have observed across its many facets led me to rethink the things that we take as truths. These observations helped me craft and lead a life that is uniquely mine. It is fulfilling and freeing, and your life can be too.
What I know now (and continue to learn) is that life is simple, but it is not always easy. Much of what we’ve been taught, conditioned to think, compared to, evaluated against, and live by, are so very wrong.
The trick is not to learn the “right” ways. It is actually to strip away the unnecessary. To unlearn.
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
-Michaelangelo
Some of the ideas in The Unlearning Life are ones that I’ve developed, while others I have compiled and distilled. I hope my writing will give you tools to become unstuck, help you grow, inspire you, and enable you to uncover greater clarity, purpose, peace, and joy.
A few additional tidbits about me:
- I start and build biotech companies and invest in multifamily real estate.
- I aim to meditate every morning. I don’t always succeed.
- I studied Business Economics at UCLA and got my MBA at The University of Chicago.
- I have always loved writing.
- I am an obsessive reader and a Duolingo nerd.