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We are comfortable in our memories as long as it is satisfying. As a result, we forget the reality that is this present. Many go mad because they never left the past. As a result reality made them crazy. The acceptance is not not easy.
Our life is limited. We have to let go our past for living in now. We cannot mourn for life about someone or some incident in life. With time, everything heals.
Not accepting reality and making peace with past is sign of weakness.
The world is more divided than in the past. A few are making the most of it by becoming wealthy and powerful. The wounds of these divides are still lingering around. Mass killings for power or religion have become a common occurrence.
Living a life on a checklist gives a robotic living vibe. Seeing deep down, we realize it has a positive. You can offload repeat activities to it and save the brain from triggering it.
Benjamin Franklin was a master at it. He had a checklist with vice and virtues. He would follow it religiously and measure it regularly. It was his report card.
In the past few years, I had a checklist for myself. I had my various health-related activities tracked. It was a good indicator of my eating, reading and exercising.
This CNN article talks about the same.https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/01/health/13-virtues-wisdom-project/index.html
Running a startup requires a different mental framework. You have limited resources to make the best out of it. One of the most important virtues that goes a long way is the founder’s belief in the journey. Media glamourizes entrepreneurship without mentioning the grind and time it takes to become successful.
In this painful journey, we need more and more believers as a customer, team members, and stakeholders. You have to be honest, open, and vulnerable with them all. Most people like openness and transparency.
Building a business is a grind you live every second. There is no guarantee of success but the journey and connections.
The early team is a key. Every member is equally responsible for the successes and failures. We all are working together for a common goal. As a founder, your values will transfer to them all. Keep culture above all. Be transparent, open, and honest. Teach them all by doing. Lead it from the front instead of ordering.
We forget our life has enough stations where people meet. We should be nice to people in general. Most times, this does not work. We fight or argue with those we dislike. Or completely ignore them.
I have no answers. I don’t know if it’s the right approach. I feel we should not burn our blood to entertain others.
We have a life ahead of us. We should focus on friendships that keep us sane or people who are part of our journey.
How can you think about the world or its betterment when you yourself are in a mess? It can be student loans, fear of losing a job, or healthcare.
We blame our society for becoming less grateful and inhuman with everyday progress. We miss seeing the new normal of living under debt, suffering from FOMO, and matching up to social needs.
When our new normal is uncertain and disarray, what are we expecting from it, if not the world turning into a mad rush?
Which protest will you participate in? How will you question your managers?
We are getting closer to becoming a civilization competing with robots and animals with consciousness. A world without asking questions, standing against wrongs.
People write poetry, sing praises, and what not call it love. Some show wealth and fake themselves to win over someone.
I realized love is about companionship, integrity, respect, and nakedness. It’s about being true to yourself and enjoying the moment. It’s getting better in life and making the journey better for both.
Love is about being naked, honest, and vulnerable with each other. It’s about knowing a person really well: their pain and anxiety. What makes them feel better and brave to face this mad world? It’s the togetherness which makes life for both.
We are living in a society that accepts your fakery and showmanship. The world expects you to be brave. It is a social construct that has idolized bodies and looks in men and women.
Everything is more of a transition. The interpersonal connection has died, and everything has become a popularity contest. The social media world has a different barometer of success.
To be at peace with yourself means knowing what you don’t want. It is about knowing less is more.
The company of friends around and people to cry and being naked in front of should matter most.
We can’t be friends with people who do not complement our value system. As we age, we learn things. We need to unclutter. We need to get more towards minimalism in making connections.
Our allocated time on this planet is limited. The sooner we realize this, the quicker we will start unfriendling the world around us for sanity.
You want people who accept you for your vulnerability, without judging you, with whom you can be that breakfree little kid.
We live in a world where people get attracted to your wealth and looks. You have judged on your vacation Instagram pics, mobile, laptops, and
whatnot.
That human connection is degrading and feels like we are in a matrix of fluffery.
Some of us live a life where we calculate everything. Everything becomes a transaction for them. It’s like playing some game.
Are we all living in a matrix and some supercomputer running us all? Or we are heartless aliens fighting every second for everything from wealth to attention to relationships.
If we live a life with such a mental model, what is the difference between us and the AI model?