Last year around October, Anurag wrote a post on procrastination and it hit my head like one hits nail with hammer. In his post, he has covered every part of procrastination in details, go ahead and read it. This post is about my procrastination habit and how it has screwed most part of me. I realized i was …
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Random Thoughts: clinging to the past
Why as a humans it is so difficult to let things go? Why can’t we not move on from past, our mistakes, relationships and all that we did which made us weak or smarter? Our human mind is like a google drive, all it does is stores and stores our experiences. I am not sure …
Random Thoughts: Capitalism, Consumerism and social proof
Capitalism has fueled growth, we are more prosperous than before. Capitalism made most of us rich, prosperous. Industrialization resulted in mass production of food, medicines. We are not dying of hunger anymore or of disease like cholera, malaria (most part of the world). Anyone can work hard and build empire out of Ashes. Capitalism also …
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Notes from Reading: Presence by Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy is a well respected social psychologist and a known face in TED talk circle. I got to know about the book of hers from one of my friend. The book starts with her personal encounter where she met with a bad accident and how she recovered fully from it. As book progresses, she …
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Notes from reading: The book of man by Osho
I was advised to read The Book Of Man, Osho by Naval. I grew up with prejudice and bias that Osho is a Sex guru, one who only talks about sexual pleasures. He is destroying our society and playing with our innocent mind by adding all kind of poison. I should totally avoid reading Osho. …
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Random Thoughts: Living in a Matchbox
Matchbox: You are son of a servant, you have to end up doing same like your father. We bought you for few $$ and you will end up working in our sugarcane, corn fields. I want my son to be a cricketer more famous then myself. Since this was never tried it before, you …
Notes from Reading: Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus was one of the famous stoic philosopher. He was born as a slave in current day Turkey. He spent most part of his life in Rome and then later moved to Greece. Enchiridion is modern day notes, so this essentially are contents of Epictetus notebook. These are some of my Kindle notes: Men are disturbed not …
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Random Thoughts: On Trust
So much has been written on Trust by so many scholars that I am not going to write or add anything. But I will request you to ask yourself? Will you be interested in a relationship without trust? Will you be interested in working with someone whom you cannot trust? Will you buy a product …
The ice cream chronicle #1
After over a month I headed to Polar Bear for an ice cream. I was not craving for it but went because during the day I was served with shit load of sugar in my lunch. I thought why not make it a cheat day. I have this tight cheat day eating policy, If I …
Notes from reading: Influence by by Robert Cialdini
Cialdini to me appears to be father of social psychology. The book is one of the best and hugely recommended to anyone who is in selling business. {Are we all not selling business these days? 🙂 }. This book was recommended to me by Anurag I would strongly recommend each and everyone to read this …
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