Enjoy Your Free Time
Recently read this wonderful piece by Morgan Housel, the author of ‘Psychology of Money’ on building slack and free time in your life. “So many people strive for efficient lives, where no hour is wasted. But an overlooked skill that doesn’t get enough attention is the idea that Wasting time can be a great thing. […]
Try it this weekend
A farmer had a dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come. As soon as one came he would run, barking and trying to overtake it. One day a neighbor asked, “Do you think your dog is ever going to catch a car?” The farmer replied, “That is not what […]
THE GIFT
A few years ago, the terrorist organization Hamas, sent a gift to the President of Israel in an elaborate box with a note. After having the box checked for safety reasons, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres, opened the box and saw that the content was feces (shit). He opened the note which said, “For […]
Comparisons
Person ‘A’ covered a distance of 10 km in one hour. Person ‘B’ covered the same distance in one and a half hours. Which of the two is faster and healthier?? Of course, our answer will be A. What if we say that A covered this distance on a prepared track while B did it […]
The Importance Of Failure
I recently came across the J.K. Rowling speech at Harvard in 2008, speaking about the benefits of failure, and how she dealt with them in her own journey from living the life of a young divorced mother near poverty to becoming the creator of a series of books that have sold more than 400 million […]
Let’s Climb The Mountain
If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and […]
This Week For Myself
Bill Gates is known to go for retreats twice a year which he calls Think Weeks, during which he isolates himself to do nothing but reading, do deep work, and think big thoughts. It’s this ability to do ‘Deep Work’ that Cal Newport in his book with the same title, defines as “Professional activities performed […]
MY SOUL HAS A HAT
~ Mario de Andrade ‘I counted my years And realized that I have Less time to live by, Then I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won a pack of candies: at first, he ate them with pleasure, But when he realized that there was little left, he began to taste […]
Life
“Life,” John Lennon said, “is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” We have seen ample proof of this in the last year or so. However, here is a tool, a mental model, a practice that can help us minimize the shocks that the unknowns and unknowables of life render us […]
Struggle
There are days when nothing seems to be working, nothing going your way & life seems an uphill struggle. You just feel, is it really going to be worth it, worth all the trouble, worth all the pain & you feel it is time to quit & move on. Mostly at these times, I always […]