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Self help literature usually asks you to say No to things by default, to avoid burnout and save your energy for things that really matter. But like any other maxim, it leads itself to over simplification. So I was pleasantly surprised when Atul Gawande (whose book Being Mortal I greatly admire), asked us to say…
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I am currently doing a ten day pack on the meditation app Headspace on being present actively. It asks us to notice the level of focus and alertness we bring in life. Until I began noticing my level of attention, I was just sailing through a lot of times during the day. I believe given…
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When we start doing something new, we often get discouraged pretty soon by the results not being good enough. If we are just starting out on something, it must be expected that it will not be so great in the beginning. For instance, the first couple of months at a gym or a new workout…
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I have always been a walker. I was lucky to attend a college which was within a couple of kilometers from my house. So most days I would walk back home. The pleasant Bangalore weather and walkable roads definitely helped. This habit has stuck along and I take a walk daily now as well. I…
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One rainy evening in Bengaluru, we were in a special English class for GRE preparation, waiting for rains to subside so that we could leave. The English teacher, who we all adored, dusted off the chalk from her notes and sat down on her chair and started speaking casually. Like how a tired mother done…
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So for a lot of things in life, to succeed, you need to build the skill, have perseverance, maybe have some luck as well. But the most important question of all, which will decide the amount of work you are willing to put in is the why. You often see this is in motivational talks…
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One of the many things which has got upended by digitalization is the concept of physical books. In the age of mobile phones and kindles, people still sticking to read from a physical book is dwindling. It might well be on the same path as newspapers. As apps overtake the news market, newspaper which once…
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So the earliest I wanted to join a Yoga class was when I was around 13-14 years old, when Yoga was not as popular as it is today. Well but I didn’t join then, fast forward to almost 15 years later, I stepped into my first yoga class at the gym. And the moment I…
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