I spent a good amount of time reading after quitting my full time job last year. I read on various subjects ranging from food, health, science, literature and philosophy. I found Philosophy the most interesting among them all. Some of my favorites were J Krishnamurti, Epicurus, Seneca, Socrates and Marcus Aurelius. I maintain my reading …
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Monkey Mind & me
Its 12 am and I just returned from Corner House after having Death By Chocolate. I am someone who tries to keep himself away from sugar, but does it always work? I would say NO, the evil side of mind or monkey mind as Naval says, gets its fair share. Isn’t it amazing that even …
Socrates and his questionings
Socrates bought a fresh way of seeing any situation, thinking and responding to any challenge, conversation. Socrates, a famous Greek philosopher and founder of Western Philosophy [Wikipedia]. According to Socrates a truth is always outcome of discussion filled with logic and reason. Like other Stoic philosopher, he too stressed on having a human life filled with …
We are all Epicurus
Epicurus was Greek philosopher and founder of school of philosophy named Epicureanism. Centre of his Philosophy revolved around pleasure. According to Epicurus: “Pleasure is the beginning and the goal of a happy life” The school of philosophy aka Epicureanism was started on donation from wealthy people because they resonated with it. He spent all the money in setting …
Random Thoughts: On my procrastination
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 …
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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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 …
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 …