selfdevelopment
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One of the things to think about in life is how much is enough for you? How many friends do you want? How many meaningful friendships you can really maintain? Or how big of a house you need? How many countries do you really want to visit and so on! You need to draw the…
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A random fact about how humans can survive in the harshest climates of the Tundra to the Sahara deserts made me thinking. Though that’s an extreme example, humans are really quite adaptable. Unless we stop being so. Adaptability, resilience, openness to change are all interrelated. You can’t be adaptable unless you are open and willing…
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Being a frequent listener of podcasts, I am both amazed and in awe of how effortlessly articulate few people are. It is a greatly useful skill to be able to clearly and concisely convey your thoughts and ideas and effectively land them. You need to have good ideas, but the aspect of having a great…
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In the current times, it can be so easy to passively live away your life consuming content. There is nothing wrong with this. However to achieve anything worthwhile, you need to assimilate and integrate your learning and lived experience and generate energy, ideas and work from it. Being generative and producing work performs many functions…
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There is the oft quotedFailing to plan is planning to fail So we end up planning our days by the minute with things to do. There are many apps and planners which help you do this (to the extreme sometimes). You are asked at the start of the year/month/week to meticulously plan ahead, tack your…
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A flyer pasted on my dance class notice board had in bold colorful lettering ‘Why do you dance? What do you feel when you dance?’ and the like. It was amusing when I saw it first, but I keep coming back to those questions every now and then. I used to learn dance over the…
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Time feels so real and yet fleeting at the same time. Usually it feels as though we have an unlimited supply of it. However, all of us need to work with this rigid container of twenty four hours in a day. There is a lot of pressure to maximize the output from this container. The…
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Life is hard. Many a times you will get punched in the face when you are least expecting it. But what matters is how you are able to dust off the sand and get back up again. Get back to what you were doing. With better understanding perhaps, but you persist. Much is spoken about…
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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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Having influence in your life is such an important skill. Throughout my growing years I always assumed that I didn’t matter much and hence couldn’t exert any influence whatsoever. However later I realized whether you know it or not, you always have some influence. With that preamble, you can imagine how happy I was to…
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