When my education began
It wasn’t until I was permitted and encouraged to think for myself that my education truly began. So, my formal education actually began in college when I signed up for English literature.
Fahri Azzat
Abandoning the First
During my time at Bristol University, the first year’s result didn’t count towards the final result. All we had to do was pass. Naturally, I did just that. By the skin of my arse, of course.
The Toilet Paper Audit
In my second year of university, I shared a narrow five-bedroom house with four others at High Kingsdown, Bristol. It had a council housing vibe going.
Behavioural Science Insights and Legal Practice
As a litigator, I have to advocate. To advocate well, I have to be persuasive, and to be persuasive, I need to understand how people think when they make a decision. That led me to explore how we make a good decision and what gets in the way, resulting in a poor decision.
Observations From a Room with an Unchanging View
Any advocacy trainer in Malaysia of my vintage (circa 2011) will know the case of Abdul Rashid v Kenneth Chan.
The Things I Do to Jump Out of a Plane
As an only child with a typical Chinese mom for a mother with a low tolerance for risk, sees certainty in the remotest chance of harm, a powerfully anxious imagination and an iron-clad preference for safety, security and predictability, I knew the answer to asking permission to skydive.
