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Ming Chen is the Chief Culture Officer at EF Education First<\/a>, an international education company that specializes in language training, educational travel, academic degree programs, and cultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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1) To kick things off, could you tell us a little about your career background and current role?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My honorific is EF’s Chief Culture Officer. EF Education First, a great education and travel company, recruited me directly from business school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I have helped build our multinational, multicultural organization which is found at all corners of the world. We help people learn a language, travel abroad and along the way, discover something about themselves and about different cultures. It’s been very rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) What does a day in the life look like for you? Can you take us through a recent workday?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every day I begin with a run. I am a compulsive and inveterate marathoner so I usually run 5 miles (8 kilometers) before heading into the office with an iced coffee in hand. I work with a team of talented creatives, designers and videographers and producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kick off with a team meeting and then will break into different units to work on our projects whether that’s a recruiting campaign, marketing advertising campaign, rebranding a product line or educational videos for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games (EF is the Official Language Training Partner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes working fun is that it’s always something different and it’s putting ideas into action. I think having highly tangible results that you can look at, and point to, is very fulfilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Does your current role allow for flexible or remote working? If so, how does that fit into your life and routine?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes, since the start of COVID-19 and being based in Hong Kong, we have gone on a rotational basis into the office and are quite flexible about working from home. It’s a strange time and while I personally prefer to see people, it is very much accepted that this may not be possible or wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) What does work-life balance mean to you and how do you work to achieve that goal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I think the dichotomy of work-life balance is a myth and does not help people- particularly women- make the most informed choices. I believe that there is only one thing we can individually control: what we do with our time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can’t control the weather, the world, or the decisions of other people, but we can absolutely control what we choose to spend our time on. I always emphasize that time is the currency of decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of ‘balance’, I would ask people to think in terms of trade offs. A tradeoff is a situational decision which involves diminishing or losing one quality, quantity, or property of a set or design in return for gains in other aspects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In simple terms, a tradeoff is where one thing increases, and another must decrease. This is a fancy way of thinking about what the tradeoffs are when you choose to do one thing versus another with your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have viewed my professional and personal life through this lens of tradeoffs- Do I sleep in or do I go running? Do I choose to work at EF or do I choose to do something else with my time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) In the past 12 months, have you started or stopped any routines or habits to change your life?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, travel has been severely curtailed because of the pandemic. This is one of the biggest consequences of the pandemic. I used to travel at least twice a month but now that is pretty much at zero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve taken to listening more to audiobooks, most recently listening to the investment classic Where Are All The Customers’ Yachts?<\/em> or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street<\/em> by Fred Schwed Jr. and My Year Abroad<\/em> by the talented Chang Rae Lee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also continued old favorite habits which include running, doing virtual races with my running partners, and watching and rewatching Agatha Christie’s movies with my kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6) Do you have any favourite books, podcasts or newsletters that you’d like to recommend?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am big into historical fiction, one of my favorites is The Scarlet Pimpernel<\/em> by Baron Orczy. I have also really enjoyed the authoritative and best-selling book Raising Global Teens<\/em> by Dr Anisha Abraham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, in a shameless plug for my own creative venture, Escape: One Day We Had to Run<\/a><\/em> which is about real episodes of flights to freedom which I co-authored with my identical twin sister. It is being published by Lantana Publishing and out on May 4th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podcasts that I listen to regularly are: Ear Hustle, made by prisoners and ex-prisoners in San Quentin; How I Built This with Guy Raz; Being Patient by Deborah Kan. I highly recommend Beingpatient.com<\/a> which is a brain health newsletter and site created by former Wall Street Journal reporter Deborah Kan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7) Are there any products, gadgets or apps that you can\u2019t live without?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Does iced coffee count?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8) If you could read an interview about work-life balance by anyone, who would that be?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, I would like to know about Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady, and Roger Federer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9) Do you have any last thoughts on work, life or balance that you\u2019d like to share with our readers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As Teddy Roosevelt is credited for saying, “Comparison is the theft of joy.” Good to keep that in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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