From Benjamin Franklin to Charlie Munger to Sam Zell.All talk about frugality, a life where you spend as much as you need. The current world of consumerism and frugality has become a dystopia. Buying on loans and credit cards is a norm.We are in the era of hoarding.Our happiness has transitioned into fast fashion and …
Author Archives: Atul
Practice
Many great authors wrote their stories that later became a masterpiece. It is their personal journey and life experience inside which they live constantly. It results in easy writing for the masses. Another trait that made them all write well is clarity, which comes with lots of practice. We undermine the value of practice and …
Scar
We are all carrying a Scar within us.It is our past.Some of us come out of it and make a new life.Rest others continue the baggage of the past and succumb to it.As a result, they continue to be miserable.They don’t want to live in now.Their past becomes a scar and makes them vulnerable.Every minute …
Pain
We humans become better with pain. The reality of life is that it is full of pain and misery. Most of us surrender to it, become slaves and sick, and continue to accept it as a part of life and die. While pain adds patience and willingness to go against all odds for survival, it …
bored
I keep hearing from friends about being bored now and then. Most of them are earning well and have a lifestyle that less than 1% of the rich in India can afford. How come someone gets bored with all these luxuries in life? Is it because most humans are animals with monkey minds taking over …
Inability
Is it our flaw that we let others take us on a ride? Do we continue being in painful conversation for past sake? We can’t be rude. We cannot say no because something within us is scared or longing for a connection. We are killing ourselves and letting others dictate to us.Our inability to say …
Insane
I am reading The Founders, its story about building PayPal. One thing that stays all across the chapters is insanity. All these founders, be it Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, or early members, were insane. They had a determination and vision of building big. The current x.com domain of Elon Musk has …
trash
Is social media a trash machine? Or a place where we try to showcase how good-looking we are, how amazing our life is to thought leadership? The left and right-centered world will have different ways of seeing the same. I have been observing myself. I realize that most of the time, I get on social …
Choice
We are living in a world full of choices. It confuses us, be it work, relationships, or shopping. We are lost. We are unsure and constantly seeking validation from others. Our life has become a showcase where we are out to delight the spectators. What we want, we have no clue about. We call ourselves …
Emperor Meiji
I was in Tokyo for a week. The country surprised me on many fronts in a good way. The person who gets credit for its modernization is Emperor Meiji The progress of the country in becoming a superpower goes to him. I visited the Meiji Shrine on the last day of my stay. It was in the middle of a city …