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Author Archives: Jane Chin

Jane Y. Chin, Ph.D. grew up in 3 continents spanning the East, Middle East, and the West. Jane is founder of 9Pillars, a consultancy focused on creating personal and social significance. Chin was founder and President of Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Institute, and founding publisher of MSL Quarterly, the first MSL management journal. Jane is creator of “Jane’s Mental Health Source Page”, one of the internet’s oldest personal websites on depression and emotional abuse. Jane has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and a doctorate degree in biochemistry from University of Buffalo at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, New York). She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, son, and an old royal ball python named Budette.

How I Write

Ten minutes lapsed between my typing “How I Write” and this sentence. I was parading with my 3 year old little boy around the office to musical tunes from an educational video. Then little boy wanted a snack from the kitchen downstairs. As we made our way back upstairs I heard the beep of the [...]

Learning to be Human

[A prose poem to Little Boy, originally written May 19, 2011] I love these days when you are young and we dance to the songs you like You want me to shake the music shaker – you hold one while I hold the other We dance to “Lithium Flower”, the ending theme of Ghost in [...]

Write!

Write! Not because you feel like to, or should. Write because you have no option but to write. Write because this is how you breathe. Write because this is how you make sense of yourself and the world. Write because this is how you love. And if you have ever fallen in love… if you [...]

Confetti Days

I am sitting in the dining room at the table cutting square pieces of colored construction paper for Little Boy to glue onto a bigger sheet of paper. I, the adult, capable of analysis, soon figure out that I can stack 3 pieces of paper and with each “Snip! Snip!” generate 3 rectangular pieces for [...]

Don’t Pretend to be Outgoing when You’re an Introvert, Instead, Focus on Why You Connect

Are you an introvert? I am. I’m energized by intense moments of solitude, not by exuberance of crowds. Once upon a time I felt bad that I was “shy”. Other people (parents!) even labeled me “arrogant” as a child because I appeared too aloof. When my mother told me this, I was maybe 5 or [...]