tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72050677810186346612024-03-13T20:50:17.128+05:30World of Random Thoughts A blog by Ayush JainAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-32696863496279467392018-07-29T22:15:00.001+05:302018-07-29T22:15:54.361+05:30Meaning of Life for Men by Jordan Peterson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is technically Day 3 of the One TED Talk a Day initiative. I started this on 27th July 2018 and today is 29th July 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The series in which the blogs have been published is a littled messed up but this will be on track from tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jordan Peterson is an incredibly knowledgable professor to follow if you have slightest of the flair for human psychology based topics. His lectures can easily be found on Youtube and I haven't used any other platform as yet to follow his lectures and ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this talk he explains about the meaning of life for men. He argues that women in a way, either biologically or psychologically are created in such a way that they don't dwell so much on the meaning of life question as much as men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This sends me down the memory lane and makes me re-connect the ideas I have read so far about the meaning and purpose of life. I have internalized that essentially there is no such holy or eternal purpose of life that you have to hunt for and live. It is in the simple thought of being useful to yourself and for others that you find the meaning of being alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May be that is why a lot of people find ton of happiness and contentment in dedicating their lives towards helping others and that becomes their life mission a.k.a. purpose of life. If you think about it and try to connect this with Jordan's talk, they are taking the responsibility, in this case not just their own and of their family but of a lot more people and that makes them happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, may be what Jordan is saying is right that meaning of life is in finding a responsibility that you deeply care about and then simply working towards it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although I would differ from his idea that this is true only for men. I believe this is true for every human being irrespective of their gender.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-58820395615008467272018-07-29T16:51:00.002+05:302018-07-29T16:51:56.000+05:30If you want to achieve your goals don't focus on them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is Day 2 of the One TED Talk a Day initiative. Today's TED Talk is by Reggie Rivers. The topic of his TED Talk is "If you want to achieve your goals don't focus on them".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He emphasizes that if you want to achieve your goals you should not focus on them. Focusing on the goals makes us focus on everything that is not in our control. The end result or the outcome is not in our control. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's a simple yet effective advice. I would certainly try to inculcate this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The very first TED Talks of this series is on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pq_tCgDkT4">Personality Types and Our Brain</a> by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-primary-text-color));"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scott Schwefel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The central idea of this TED Talk is that every person has a different personality and his or her behavior is largely driven by that. It is of tremendous use for us to know what Personality Type we own. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-6105648425681887032018-07-27T12:36:00.000+05:302018-07-27T12:39:47.079+05:30How I tried to create a system to manage my time better?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Consistency. One word which has a lot of meaning and strength. Those who know me would understand that I have an intense need to plan and organize everything. I am not much of an impromptu person. I am not a person who can think on his feet and come up with ideas. I take time to analyze and then conclude. In spite of all this one thing that I have been struggling with has been consistency, sounds very contradictory perhaps, let me explain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fact is that if we do not assign priorities consciously to whatever we have in front of us, our true nature inherently does that for us. And let me tell you, our true nature does not do a good job at assigning priorities because we as humans never want to eat the bitter pills, even if they are for our own benefits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, we need to be conscious about the choices that we make everyday. Those tiny breaks of 5 or 7 minutes that we take to watch interesting Youtube videos, convert into hours before we know it. Or those incremental professional commitments may take a toll on your personal commitments (family time or self growth) or vice versa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have already admitted that I myself am guilty of such behavior so I am not in a position to tell you how to fix this, but all I can tell is something that I tried and something that seemed to work a bit for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have always had a long Planner sheet at the beginning of the year which sort of has the list of areas (and categories) I would want to work on, the list of things I would want to improve, so on and so forth. I was using this like my North Star (not literally pulling task items from it but just picking the directions). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what was missing was that in the day to day life I tended to go autopilot every now and then and it used to be months before I looked at my Planner sheet and see that I have lost a ton of time and haven't done anything from the sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To fix this what I have tried now is that I take up only a handful of items from the list that I think I can finish or cater to in say one month. This drastically reduces the items I need to spend my time looking at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are from the Software Product Management background, think of the Planner sheet as your Backlog and the shorter list as the Stories you pick up for the Sprint that is supposed to last one month. Towards the middle of the month or say third week if you see items you definitely would not be able to work on, just push them out, don't stress about it. If you push yourself very hard, you would not have enough energy to go on and you may end up breaking the system. Telling you by experience, if you break the system once, it is very tough to get back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, I have better visibility on what needs to be done and if I am able to spend some time on it. So, this in a way was the first solution - having clear visibility (at all times) on what needs to be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know this might sound extreme to a lot of you but trust me, once you get in the habit of using this and can clearly see the Pie Chart of your time spent, slowly and gradually you tend to get better at managing your time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also decide and create some time based goals for yourself and try to get better at achieving them. As you can see, some of the goals that I have created for myself are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As and when you get a hang of this you can add more and more activities that you care about and try to patch it up in goals and try to monitor yourself on a monthly basis if you are improving in those areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To conclude, like any other system this system also is not a full proof solution but this is certainly something worth exploring. If you try this and it works for you even a little bit do let me know.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-39325882215923363552018-03-27T14:47:00.004+05:302018-03-27T14:48:43.876+05:30The Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">So many choices. One life. If you
think about it, perhaps, a very brief, almost negligible bleep on the canvas of
life on Earth. Non-existent in the Earth’s lifetime. But this bleep, is our
life. For most what we know, an opportunity, the only one that we have right
now. The only one we are sure of. Then why are our choices mostly confined,
constrained by factors such as our upbringing, our innate tendencies as humans
(evolved from animals), why do we not realize these barriers being only in our minds,
why are these shackles tough to break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because choosing an offbeat life
is difficult, extreme, disagreeable to society or to the construct of society.
But how do you choose, how do you define the offbeat life you may fantasize
about. Should we give in to this whim to ultimately lose a lot of time, money,
relationships and eventually long for coming back? How do you test the waters
without disrupting your current life? How do you finally take the call and take
the plunge?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is about finding answers,
about the process, of discovery. It may not look like it but perhaps this is a
whole lot internal rather than external. Discovery of ourselves. Realizing what
you truly enjoy. Designing a life, you enjoy. Making it sustainable.
Prioritizing life over traditional way of living. Taking a leap of faith. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The journey eventually may make
you experience immense bliss. You may experience life in its full glory. A tale
to tell, a life truly lived. On the flip side, even if you don’t find what you
longed for. It may take some precious resources, time away, but it would
perhaps still be worth a shot. The traditional life would always be available,
open to embrace. One may fall a step or two backwards in the traditional sense.
But in the larger canvas, in the larger picture of one’s life, this perhaps
would surely be worth. After all, finding oneself is a long pursuit, the
journey like this is going to be the first step. A step in a direction with
some hope of being right should definitely be worth.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-58783861707539916562018-03-15T15:48:00.000+05:302018-03-15T15:48:58.858+05:30Failing to Succeed - Book Summary/Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was randomly browsing the new offers on the Kindle Store
when I came across this book. The title of the book was quite apt and it did
catch my eye. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ever since I have started questioning the fundamentals of
societal structure, one question that has always perplexed me has been the
question of Success. What Success really is? I wrote a <a href="http://ayushjain.blogspot.in/2014/07/your-idea-of-success-is-really-your-idea.html">blog
post</a> about this titled, “Your Idea of Success. Is it really your Idea?”,
way back in 2014. As you can see, it now has been almost 4 years and here we
are, still exploring this concept of Success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, coming back, so I found this book’s title
interesting, read the brief on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35626210-failing-to-succeed">Goodreads</a>
and decided to buy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The book is about the advent, success and shutdown of India’s
first E-commerce start-up Fabmart/Indiaplaza. I am sure people from early days
of Internet (90s) may have heard of those names. I had read some articles about
Mr. Vaithee and hence had an overview about the venture.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fabmart – India’s first E-commerce start-up begins<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This book is narrated and authored by Mr. Vaithee himself
which hence gives you a vivid experience (thanks to his writing style) of everything
that happened. It begins with the author toying with the idea of starting up,
leaving a well cushioned job at Wipro to venture into the world of
entrepreneurship. He was mightily influenced by the experience of amazon.com
which was, in those days, trying to pioneer the e-commerce world and perhaps was
the only reference point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Along with 5 other co-founders the first e-commerce site of
India was born, named Fabmart.com selling audio cassettes and CDs. To give you
a perspective, we are talking about creating an e-commerce company when
internet penetration was extremely low, world-wide-web had recently entered
India and getting connected to Internet was a painful process of using the Dial-up
connection. A lot of us millennials may have never seen internet that slow, you
could literally see the images / content load line by line on the screen in
front of you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up (most of which happen to be same for Product Management).</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What problem are you solving?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you solving it for reasonably large set of
customers?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will these customers be willing to pay for your
solution?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you the first one trying to solve or there
have been others who have attempted?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If others have already solved, are you bringing
something superior or unique?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The author then shares some really amazing learning about <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The concept of Better, Faster, Cheaper to
evaluate start-ups</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Selecting your Co-founders</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deciding Co-founders’ responsibilities and
compensation</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Seed-funding</span> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As is there in any product, while taking the crucial
decisions, the team at Fabmart needed some really important inputs and they
used the concepts of Product Management really well. This just tells me that
the first principles are just timeless. The way they executed in the absence of
all the modern tools we have today is just exemplary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -18pt;">Stalking customers in offline stores to
understand customer buying behavior.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -18pt;">Deciding on whether to sell books or music
online.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -18pt;">Getting the meta-data of the Music labels was a
challenge, then getting it online was another challenge, music companies didn’t
have it in online format.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, so slowly and gradually things started moving and Fabmart
started getting traction. It is not very well known but Fabmart team deserves
the credit for a lot of innovative and first of its kind solutions executed in
E-commerce world which now just seem to be a norm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First PIN based Payment Gateway</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First E-commerce client of Microsoft Azure in
India</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">BlueDart’s first step in E-commerce logistics</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First to execute Omnichannel retail</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First to sign up a celebrity singer to launch a Single
exclusively online</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">India’s first Electronic Gift Certificates</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">India’s first E-wallet</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First Customer Loyalty Program</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">India’s first Online Grocery store</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">First time COD in India</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The book then takes us through some day to day challenges of
deciding the KPIs when you don’t have any reference point, signing up more
music labels, singers to get more traffic and all along sticking to the first
principles of business to ensure that this is a self-sustainable business and
not a VC money driven that now-a-days is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fabmart starts to expand beyond music and gets into books
and jewellery. The author talks about the challenges faced and how they finally
launch these online. In future, books become one of the bestselling categories
for the business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was the time (around 2000) when the Dotcom bubble bust
was happening in US and hence whenever Fabmart team was meeting the investors,
they were interested in valuation more than anything else. The company was able
to raise 25 Crores as Series A in this turbulent time.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fabmart Goes in Offline Retail<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next part of the book is about how Fabmart goes in
offline retail and builds the brand Fabmall. Most of you may not know this but
Fabmall was acquired by Aditya Birla Group in 2006 and re-branded as More
stores, fairly well known now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In spite of the fact that Groceries as a category will be
difficult and low margin venture, Fabmart went ahead and launched India’s first
online grocery, along with selling it offline in Fabmall. Some really creative
warehousing and supply chain strategies had to be executed by the team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was also the time when the team started off COD for
groceries (in 2001) and then extended it to other products such as books,
movies, music, watched etc. But because of all the challenges that COD brings
with itself, the team decided to shut COD down in 2004.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fast forward to Indiaplaza – Cash Crunch Begins – Investor Challenges<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Author then talks about a lot of business challenges that
were being faced because of which finally, the offline business and the online
business were separated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the
recent Dotcom bust, no investors would even want to listen to anything that had
“.com” in it raising funds for the online business was becoming daunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would try to fast forward the summary here. There onwards,
author details about tonnes of challenges that were faced because of the
Investors, Cash Crunch etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is commendable to read in the book is that in spite of
owning around 2% or so of the company Indiaplaza, the author somehow became
responsible for all the troubles that the company faced. The challenges of ever
changing business conditions can be navigated well if there is money available.
The responsibilities of the current investors were not executed and hence
Indiaplaza had to face severe situations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am highly impressed by the way author keeps his morals and
integrity standing strong in spite of the tough, nerve wrecking situations
around him with vendors, creditors, police etc. Reading about all the struggles
that he went through is highly inspirational. It gives a perspective into how
most of the investors focus perhaps on the wrong metrics and how it is
extremely important to be highly selective when choosing where you are taking
the money from.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Overall, the book is really delightful and refreshing to
read. The writing style is simple yet engaging. It provides a lot of ground
reality perspectives about the start-up world. Media selectively glamorizes the
start-up world with less focus on failures and the dark sides. It gives you a
perspective of what all can go wrong in a start-up and can prove to be a
guidepost to learn from the mistakes detailed in the book. I highly recommend
this book to anyone who has interest in start-ups and/or e-commerce in general.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-51768453071679587472018-01-24T23:05:00.002+05:302018-01-24T23:47:44.298+05:30Experiences, Experience and More<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used to think, this is not how I would spend my life. Running around, chasing something which I may or may not want, oppressing myself with day to day grinds, living almost the same day, almost the same place over and over again and calling it life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Long back, when I was young and stupid, I used to think this life is not for me. But, reading a letter I perhaps wrote in 2012 when I started my career, I realize, I am already living the kind of life I was kind of trying to consciously avoid. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't get me wrong, it is not that I am not happy. Perhaps I am. Perhaps I am supposed to be. I have a good job, pays well, I live in the IT capital of the country and I have some skills that can continue to fetch me fairly good life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then, in spite of all that, when I look back at myself; what I used to be 6 years back, I feel this is not what I wanted. I don't know what I did want but I had told myself that I would do something different. I know I am way off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May be that guy at that age did not really understand what to expect from himself or may be I got it all wrong and haven't yet figured out and learnt how to live. Yes, it is possible. There was no lecture on how to live, in my school, college or even my post graduate certificate course. No one really told me because may be there is no single way. Even having a framework around it would have helped but nah, nothing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, let me put on my PM hat now. Yes, we have a problem, but if we really try to put this in the AIPMM new product development framework, we should be able to arrive at a product that should be able to help. I think I need to focus on the problem more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why exactly people like me think that they wanted a different life. If I dig deeper I think I can say that because when one is young, the intensity of hopes and ambitions are high. What one can achieve in life is at Level 8 and one himself is sitting at Level 0. Sure, being at Level 8 sounds so much fun but reaching there has a different path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The path that is difficult, full of rejections and failure and if you look at it, it never looks anything remotely like Level 8. Hence everyone gets deceived and thinks this cannot be it. This can never be the path to where I want to go. Everyone then looks at the path that looks amazing at the moment, we are unable to look ahead and see where this beautiful looking path is going to take us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We start walking on that path and after a while perhaps, we realize, Oh, this is certianly not going to take me to Level 8. We panic, we try to look for other paths. The cycle repeats and then yet again we look for another path and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before you know it, you are done with 5-6 years and you are happy but you are nowhere near to Level 8. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, you may ask yourself, do you still want to go to Level 8, because the path is still dirty and difficult or you would rather stay on the path that you currently are on, which by the way is very comfortable?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everyone has these choices. And most people fantasize about Level 8 but do not prefer to go down that atrocious looking path, they would rather stay on their comfortable Levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What would I do? I don't know. I am scared of losing my current level in pursuit of Level 8 that I may or may not achieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I may change my mind. Well, we will see.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-30119318535830019042016-09-28T11:21:00.006+05:302018-01-24T23:48:02.914+05:30What am I up to?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came across my friend <a href="http://deepak365.in/">Deepak's blog</a> and something interesting caught my attention. He has a specific page that tells about what he is doing now. His inspiration for such a page has been <a href="http://nownownow.com/">http://nownownow.com/</a>. It is interesting and surprising to see that this /now page is a revolution! I went to Deepak's Now page (<a href="http://deepak365.in/now">link here</a>) and decided to write a blog post about it and to also create a similar page for myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, recently I have been tied up and have not been able to manage my time well. But I am slowly getting back on track. I have been using </span><a href="http://www.toggl.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">www.toggl.com</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> to help me track my time and of course </span><a href="http://www.wunderlist.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">www.wunderlist.com</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and </span><a href="http://www.getpocket.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">www.getpocket.com</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> have been my favorite tools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wunderlist is well, a To Do list and Pocket helps you bookmark your links and manage them better to revisit them and hence manage your learning better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I keep myself occupied with Business Analysis, Product Consulting, Product Management and learning about these all the time. Recently I also have found myself interested in knowing about what people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are up to. I am actively following the growth of smart cars, self driven cars etc. I am also blogging at <a href="http://www.faichi.com/blog">Faichi's</a> official website. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh yes, I also have been reading books and happily running <a href="http://www.meetup.com/punebooklovers">Pune Book Lovers Club</a>. I am currently reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Totto Chan - English translation of a Japanese book. This book is very famous though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Thinking Fast and Slow - I am very slow in reading this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Zero to One - Interesting insights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am active on Twitter these days, please follow me <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ayushtweet">@ayushtweet</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cheers till the next time!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-88293486930998614192016-09-28T11:21:00.005+05:302018-01-24T23:48:27.333+05:30My Poetry Sucks!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am totally embarrassed about the stupid poetry I have put on my blog. I haven't written anything good for a long time now. I am requesting you to please don't read any poetry please? I will put a good one as soon as I write, I promise you.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-43268060357796124542016-04-22T22:56:00.001+05:302018-01-24T23:48:15.620+05:30Weekly Habit Experiments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been in Pune since September 2015 now and I got to
know that here Gudi Padwa i.e. Hindi Calendar new year is a grand festival. It
is celebrated with a lot of zeal. I thought I should take this opportunity to
try something new and become a better person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, many of you must be thinking
that this is something we all think of doing in every new year. Yes, that is
true, I have always been making a list of habits I need develop, the
achievements I want to see in the new year, the milestones I want to achieve,
so on and so forth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, yep the only problem was that the list of 2015 looked
a lot like the list of 2014 and so on and hence I thought this is not going to
work at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence, I thought this Hindi New Year can be an opportunity.
I knew I can’t commit for an entire year so decided to try for something really
short a duration and settled for one week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, here it is, my weekly experiments have started from 4<sup>th</sup>
April. Now, I wanted to begin with something really small. I just randomly
thought how it would be like to not speak any cuss words for a week and yep, that
is what I decided for the first week. I had to follow this <i>No Cuss Words </i>rule till 10<sup>th</sup> April i.e. 7 full days. If
you think it is easy you may go ahead and give it a try yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyways, so how was my experience and how did it go? Well,
for firsts, I think the week ended really quickly and I faltered for a total of
5 times. I realized that initially I indeed was, quite frequently saying cuss
words in my mind but wasn’t just speaking them. But over a period of a few days
I realized that I started using some other words to better explain, rather than
the cuss words. I seriously recommend you to give it a try.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was a good experience by the end of the week. I had two
decisions to make now, first, what should be the next experiment and second,
whether or not should I continue with the previous one. I decided to try no
sugar+ green tea daily for the next week and also decided that since it was not
difficult so I would just continue the previous experiment too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, for the next week i.e. 11<sup>th</sup> April to 17<sup>th</sup>
April it had to be <i>No Cuss Words + No
Sugar + Daily Green Tea.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The week obviously has ended so you might be wondering as to
how did it go. Well, No Cuss Words went really good, though I stopped keeping
the count of the faults because I found doing that insignificant. No sugar
regime has been strictly followed and quite easily actually but this Green Tea
Daily has been difficult and I think I could only follow it for 3 days out of
7. I think the reason being that following this involved preparing green tea
and I have been too lazy to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyways, I have continued all three experiments for the
subsequent week too and it has been going well. Though I had to add another
habit and I wanted to try Daily Meditation but I have failed at that too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, for the coming week I have decided not to add any
habits and to carry all four of these habits to this week and see how that
goes. If at all everything goes fine. I will start adding more habits, else I
will drop some of these. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Current habits to pursue in the next week starting next
Monday i.e. 25<sup>th</sup> April 2016 are <b>No Cuss Words + No Sugar + Daily
Green Tea + Daily Meditation</b>. Hoping for the best!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-91580821864531935302016-03-17T04:33:00.000+05:302018-01-24T23:48:56.799+05:30Book Review: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="readable reviewText" style="line-height: 21px;"><br />This book is indeed a short read but it makes you think time and again and hence I would say this is an impacting book to me.<br /><br />Certain sections of the book (some specific conversations) are extremely enjoyable and hence I would surely want to read the book again. I highly appreciate that the author seemed to have ensured that any religion aspect is not touched upon.<br />To conclude, this is a must read book.<br /><br />The book is publicly available online, you can go to </span><a class="linkified" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500" rel="nofollow" style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; color: #8073a7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.670588); line-height: 22.4px;"> to get the book.<br /><br />Also, I am happy to announce that this book is going to be the first specific book being discussed in <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PuneBookLovers/events/229628552/">Pune Book Lovers Club</a>.</span></span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-18084051525702018872015-08-14T23:47:00.000+05:302015-08-14T23:50:20.683+05:30Why make a fuss?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s been a while since I wrote something, elsewhere or on
this blog. It literally feels like the fountain pen being used after years. The
ink has dripped through inside but is unable to dribble through the nib of the
pen, and smoothly on to the paper. As you try to write, you scratch the paper and
mildly damage the nib. Just like the ink, I have thoughts in my mind but am
unable to carve them out into words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why? What happened? Has it not been a good time in the past?
Am I so engrossed in the day to day life that I forgot how to express in words?
No, I did not; well, I hope not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know that the wheels are a little rusty now, but they sure
can still move. It will take a little time, I will need a little inertia to
push myself and that indeed will take some effort and some pain.</span></div>
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something begins (or ends) that little word pain is like the threshold energy
we need, to get started, to begin and to endure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, what is there to exaggerate in this? Why make a fuss? Is this the first time I am experiencing this?
Surely it is not. There is nothing new in this. Also, don’t other people
undergo the same and just still keep going? There is nothing unique about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All you got to do is keep going. Can anything else help? I highly
doubt it. But, given my little experience of life and of people, I might be
wrong. Over time, everything fades away, just like the early morning fog, like
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, the visibility is currently low, it is indeed hazy all
around; there are some things to remember and there are some to forget. But all I
need to remind myself is that; this too shall pass, this too shall pass.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-57274378825389162332015-05-02T17:10:00.000+05:302015-05-02T17:15:59.259+05:30It's easy to feel hopeful during the good times<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hope. It indeed is one of the strongest emotion human beings
can conceive. It defies reasons and logics and keeps our spirits almost
unnaturally and impractically alive when we need it the most. I recently came
across a wonderful graduation speech given by the lead female actor in the
movie “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/">The Amazing Spiderman-2</a>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I know we all think that we are immortal. We are supposed
to feel that way. We are graduating, but like our brief four years of high
school, what makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“What makes it precious is that it ends, we know that now more
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“So, don’t waste it living someone else’s life, make yours
count for something. Fight for what matters to you, no matter what, cause even
if we fall short what better ways is there to live.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like
today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too. There will be days where
you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most. No matter how bad it
gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to hope.
Keep it alive.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“We have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“And even if we fail, what better way is there to live? As
we look around here today, at all of the people who helped make us who we are,
I know it feels like we're saying goodbye, but we will carry a piece of each
other into everything that we do next, to remind us of who we are, and of who
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May we all get the strength to realize and attain hope when
we need it the most because it indeed is something which is deeply imbibed in
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-63927053139533058632015-03-14T10:30:00.002+05:302015-03-14T10:45:14.101+05:30Your personal goals - Shout out loud or keep them to yourself ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The new year 2015. I know it is kind of late to write about the new year but still as the first quarter of the year has ended I realize this indeed is a good time to write about it. As per my opinion, the problem with being too much energetic or enthusiastic at the beginning of the year is that we end up making too many commitments to ourselves and then end up not being able to live up to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, since those commitments had been made to ourselves alone, we fail to monitor ourselves well enough to check our progress time and again and hence we lose the track. The cycle repeats itself over and over again every year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The solution to this, I believe, is to become accountable to someone for your achievements and goals. What I mean here is that we can try to be explicitly vocal about things that we want to achieve in the year to some people we can trust and we know are going to push us when we feel like drifting away. These people can be your best friends, siblings, parents etc. But a minor detail that is important here is that that person(s) should motivate you when you are going off the track and should not rather draw energy out of you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, when we are accountable to others about what we do and do not achieve, we tend to push ourselves in the times of crisis because there is a certain aspect of social reputation that is attached to it. This is something to be tried and tested to see the results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If we do try and implement this, we would not impractically over-commit and would also have a feasible method of going about our goals as we would know that the status of our progress is being monitored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ah well now you may or may not agree with whatever I just said but still you should watch this TED talk below by <a href="http://sivers.org/">Derek Sivers</a> that is completely opposite of what I just discussed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I personally do not agree with Sivers here but you may choose one of the two methods and see the results for yourself. I would love to know which of the two methods you tried; being socially active about your goals or keeping them to yourself and which one worked for you, do let me know in the comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The speaker started with the days of grief that he used to have on the weekends when he was dealing with the career crisis thinking where is his career headed. He talks about how these days snobbery has become a global phenomenon. Snobbery i.e. the practice of observing a part of a human being and assuming and making image of the individual as a whole based on that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This happens a lot in the social settings where "What do you do?" has become the most prominent question and we make the whole image of the person in our mind based on response. So, what is written on your Business Card has become important for the people than the real you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are living in the times where it is a general belief that if you have the right talent, resources and hard work anyone can achieve anything There is nothing particularly wrong with this ideology apart from the fact that this also means that if someone is not very successful then it is because of their own reasons and hence are responsible for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of this, in general, there is more career related anxiety in people these days. Earlier people did not used to expect much from themselves and from their careers but now with "anyone can achieve anything" mentality most of the careers are in grief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In previous days human beings used to centre the life around other forces like God, Universe, Nature etc and used to worship them to find the answers. These days, on the contrary human being believes he doesn't need any of that and can pray to himself and believe in himself to achieve anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Due to this situation, there is a contrary thinking that if I am a failure I am because of my own; which increases the suicide tendencies in humans while the truth is that Success and Failure are just random events and should not be made to be the centre of the human lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of all the media hype, the idea and definition of success for people has not been unique rather, has been dictated by what they consume from the media. It is such an unfortunate moment when you achieve someone else's definition of success and realise; after investing a significant amount of time and energy in it that you did not want it in the first place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To conclude, it is important that we think deeply about what our idea of success really is and then go about achieving it rather than running around the media's or society's idea of success. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-12683110008690497612013-09-18T23:56:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:00:20.494+05:30Let's Write<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This might sound a little odd but I have no clue what I am going to write about in this post. Okay, you may still read it to know what am I going to write about as you and me both get revealed to this together. Oh well, before writing this post, lets just talk. So, I would like to know how are you doing these days, what is going on at your end ? Hmm? Sorry?... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ohh.. How can you answer, this is not voice chat, is it? :P Hmm.. Let me think... how about you leave that as a comment? I will take up from there, thanks. Okay, yep I am doing good too, just that I am still thinking what should I write about? Experience, travel, politics, opinion, festival.... Ahh there are so many topics I can take and get myself started with any one but still I do not know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is weird. :( But, has it never happened to you, that you have to select any one out of so many permutations available and you end up investing so much time in selecting one that you just lose interest in all of them? Well, happens a lot in my case. :-/ I am just afraid that this post might not end up like one of such cases. Ohh no, I will think, choose, decide and select one to get started.. I do not want you to get bored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, how about writing about writing? No really, I mean I am writing this blog post and here you are reading it so why not write about this itself? So, tell me why, according to you, I am writing this blog post? Yep, you can use the comment to answer. I will reply in comment itself. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Actually, well, again it may sound weird, but I just am writing this to make sure that I do write something today. To get better at something, we need to ensure we do it as planned and try to make it a habit, isnt it? Only then we get better at it. Hence, in spite of being confused on the topic, I am just writing it. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do let me know your thoughts about it ? in the comments of course and also give your feedback on this blogpost (only if it is good :P). :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बहुत</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">याद</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">आता</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">है</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गुज़रा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ज़माना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">प्यारा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बचपन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मासूम</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फसाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सुबह</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">रोज़</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">उठकर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">यूनिफॉर्म</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पहनना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">टाई</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">उलझना</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पापा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सिखाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बस</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">स्टॉप</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बस</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">इंतज़ार</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खिड़की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वाली</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सीट</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ख्वाहिश</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">स्कूल</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">प्रेयर</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> "<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">थॉट</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ऑफ</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">द</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">डे</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दिन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">शुरुआत</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> "PHE" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> "<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फ्री</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पीरियड</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">राहें</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ताकना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लंच</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ब्रेक</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पहले</span> "<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बोरिंग</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मेथ्स</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पढ़ना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लंच</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ब्रेक</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सबके</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">टिफिन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">टटोलना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फ्री</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पीरियड</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होमवर्क</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पूरा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">शाम</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">को</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ज़्यादा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खेलने</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">उम्मीद</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हर</span> "<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">आन्सर</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बाद</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लाल</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लाइन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खींचना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">एक</span> "<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">डाइयग्रॅम</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">को</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सुंदर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सजाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">घर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जाके</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सीधा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">टीवी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">चिपकना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मम्मी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">डांटना</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खाने</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लिए</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">शाम</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पहले</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होमवर्क</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जल्दी</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">छत</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फुल</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ऑन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">क्रिकेट</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खेलना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दादा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दादी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">क़िस्से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सुनना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पता</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">है</span>, <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">आप</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सुना</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">चुके</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हो</span>" <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ये</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बार</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बार</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">कहना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मम्मी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हाथों</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गर्मा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गर्म</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पापा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">आने</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> “<span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वेट”</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सब</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">छत</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जाकर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बातें</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">तारों</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सड़क</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गाड़ियों</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गिनती</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पापा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">कहना</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जूते</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पॉलिश</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">करके</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">रखो</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मम्मी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">का</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">समझाना</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">स्कूल</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बैग</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">भी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जमा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">लो</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">और</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">कुछ</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ही</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">देर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जल्दी</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">नया</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दिन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वैसे</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ही</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जीना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दिन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">खुशी</span>, <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दिन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">कुछ</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ख़ास</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हक़ीक़त</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">था</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जो</span>, <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">अब</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हुआ</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">है</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फसाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">हक़ीक़त</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">है</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">जो</span>, <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">होगा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वही</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फिर</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फसाना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बहुत</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">याद</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">आता</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">है</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">गुज़रा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">ज़माना</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">प्यारा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">सा</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">बचपन</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">वो</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मासूम</span> <span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">फसाना</span> |</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-65154738167959512302013-09-10T00:47:00.002+05:302015-03-14T11:00:32.218+05:30Thinking, Planning, Doing - One at a Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In our daily life there are so many chores that demand completion. Some of them require no or little thinking while others may require not just thinking but a session of detailed thinking before we are convinced and are able to complete or rather say start it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amidst all such thoughts and actions cycle what we may tend to forget is about priority. Unfortunately, the systems around us are all architected in such a way that there are so many issues and problems that do not deserve our attention but we tend to scale them at a higher position in the priority list. Consequentially, these no so important issues or tasks or problems start taking a decent amount of our mindshare and concentration while, considering what their actual significance is, it is best to postpone them and not provide our mindshare to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other way round, we also need to identify those tasks, traits that deserve to be on our priority. Some of them are being happy, introspection, knowing one's strengths etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh ok, there is no need to think much about this. Just keep in mind the not so important things in life may actually be very important and those lists you made but did not complete may not be that important that you need to loose the peace of your mind and some time to observe this world.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-36741437385370306432013-02-01T11:18:00.002+05:302015-03-14T11:00:43.842+05:30To Do or Not To Do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No matter what field you are
working in, at some point of time we all use the concept of the To Do List.
This is something that people at times use not only in their professional life
but also in their personal life. It indeed is a very effective method to keep
an eye on all the tasks at once and to ensure that we do not miss on anything.
Though I am not really into such kind of planning etc. but ever since I have been
into the working force I have had to start using it and I have to admit that it
really does helps to complete the tasks in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been using the To Do lists
in diary rather than any electronic form because I was more comfortable with
it. Also, some people who had tried the electronic forms of To Dos recommended
that the hard copy format is effective. Nevertheless, you will find that people
preferring the electronic form are more than that of the hard copy. I
personally believe that writing by hand has its own aura and conjuration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyways, I then started off with
the electronic mediums for the To Do lists. Now, there were ample numbers of
options available, which one to choose? After some basic search around I
started off with Evernote and Wunderlist. Initially, you may take some time in
being familiar with them and being habitual to them but slowly and gradually it
becomes an important component for your day to day activities and also to plan
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taking all your notes, web pages you like, images etc in one place and has
amazing methods to categorize data and retrieve as and when needed with the
help of Tags, Notebooks (and similar jargons) etc. So, this is something you
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For day to day, Wunderlist is an awesome tool or actually not Wunderlist but
Wunderlist 2. It has a very neat interface and is very simple to use with the
options of creating different lists for different tasks, adding notes to
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So, you can use Wunderlist for short term planning and Evernote for long term
planning & single point repository for notes, content and data you would like
to visit time and again.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-2374032945305658552013-01-31T02:41:00.001+05:302015-03-14T11:00:57.247+05:30Go do something wonderful<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Indeed it is very true that it is an innate tendency of every human being "<i>to create</i>". This tendency cannot be denied and is true for every individual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Though, we, as a part of a mechanical society try to fit in, unaware of the fact that this is not an ideal or perfect community of which we intend to be a part of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the process of our aspiration to fit in, our innate creativity, because of not being properly nurtured, slowly yet strongly keeps depleting day after day. Moreover, in general, since we do not take any efforts to replenish those energies, we hence tend to lose this characteristic. Not a good thing to happen, is it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence, the need of the hour is to be more creative, everyday. It may be in any form art, craft, prose, poetry, song, article or any other thing; the primary objective is "<i>to express</i>" in a creative manner irrespective of the medium or method used.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-48841320411534207942012-12-08T14:26:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:01:50.754+05:30Which story do you prefer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This very simple statement "<i>Which story do you prefer?</i>" has left a great impact in the movie "<i>Life of Pi</i>". Primarily because the statement is strong enough to make an adventurous movie a suspense one and more importantly, it makes us "<i>think</i>". Yes, in today's era of smartphones, computers and media, if something is there which we do very less, is thinking. This is because even our thoughts and perceptions are biased due to overdose of information lying anywhere and everywhere. Media such as TV, news, print media have always had an impact on the general public since ages. But, what has now changed is their "<i>reach</i>" to us due to the newly built ocean of information everywhere around us. This reminds me of one of the very well known poems "<i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>" by <i>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</i><i>. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The current situation is no different, we have a huge ocean of information all around us and this can be attributed to the fast pace growth of technologies such as smartphones, internet etc. which have given all that was there in your PC and was there on TV, right into your hands. So, eventually the media and the people who can control the perceptions of the public have become even more strengthened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence, the question "<i>Which story do you prefer?</i>" holds a great value because more than ever before this is the time when your perceptions and preferences need to be your own, you need to think and decide what your preferences are, to do that we really need to "<i>think</i>" and observe the happenings of our surroundings; otherwise as I said it is easy for "<i>those</i>" people to guide your thoughts, your ideas, your perceptions and your preferences as per "<i>their</i>" comfort.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com8Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.877655918.835877699999998 72.5617989 19.3160897 73.193512899999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-77119743960045621412012-10-10T23:09:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:03:00.631+05:30Altered States of Human Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bZ_aBWXGD7c/UHWygWC3RVI/AAAAAAAAAMw/vrCoWOpwgtc/s1600/77543_f496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bZ_aBWXGD7c/UHWygWC3RVI/AAAAAAAAAMw/vrCoWOpwgtc/s320/77543_f496.jpg" height="200" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recently watched a really interesting episode of Strange Rituals on History Channel, about the Altered States of Human Mind. This episode was about the altered states that humans don’t really attain normally, and various cases demonstrating various different methods by which this has been achieved by a very few among mankind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To begin with, this discussion has a lot of scientific research to back and hence it cannot just be related to spirituality and religious thoughts. I will also be giving the names of a few scientists who have worked on various aspects of research work regarding the altered states.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The history is full of instances that reveal the existence of an alternate world which is way beyond our understanding and since ages it has been believed there always has been a gateway of communication between our world and this alternate world. Previous civilizations have referred to it in various different ways but the one whose references have been found quite frequently has been the human mind. It is believed that human mind is indeed the gateway through which the communication is possible and the communication has taken place time and again, in the past. So, the only probable method to attain this is the discipline of mind. This is where meditation comes into the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meditation has been widely accepted by the people to attain a disciplined mind. In some of the tribes, it is believed that people used to have the ability of separating their soul from their body and their soul then could travel at a different place altogether. They could achieve this through a certain level of meditation. This also is been considered a method by which their soul actually used to enter that alternate world while their body used to be in deep state of meditation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another instance that justifies this is the superhuman abilities depicted by Wim Holf who can easily sustain in freezing cold temperatures in which a normal human being can never stay alive. He is a world record holder for this case and hence is known as “ice man”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obviously the scientists have been quite interested in finding the reason for the same and their study revealed that before undergoing any act of facing extreme cold Wim meditates for a while and then when he faces extreme cold, his body produces white blood cells immensely because of which his immune system rapidly increases and eventually his body temperature gradually increases, easily coping with the extreme cold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another phenomenon that aids the existence of altered states of human mind and the alternate world is the phenomenon of “Remote Viewing”. To state it in simple terms, remote viewing is ability to transcend space and time, to view persons, places or things remote in space-time using paranormal means, in particular “extra sensory perception”; to gather and report information on the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There have been claims that during the days of cold war among US and USSR, US defense used “remote viewing” via special spies to get armory and other information about the USSR, they also later on funded this research for a long period. You can find a lot of information about this <a href="http://davidmorehouse.com/remote-viewing/rv-history/">here</a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scientists like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Benson">Herbert Benson</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_freud">Sigmund Freud</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks_Rhine">Joseph Rhine</a> have researched a lot on these topics and hence IMO the existence of the alternate world and the concept of altered states of human mind indeed has a scientific backdrop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In fact I think our scientific community is still too young and naïve to understand these supernatural and paranormal phenomena and it will still take huge amount of time and resources for science to understand these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the contrary, in the spiritual and religious community, the significance of intensive meditation and its effects have been recognized since a long time. They have believed the existence of an alternate world and the reference to this has been found in different religions in different scriptures (not going in detail) but have lacked in reasons and logic. If you follow science religiously, you need not believe this but at least it gives us an insight that such phenomena and incidents that science is not completely able to explain are at least acknowledged by the other community.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The discussion indeed has many perceptions. Anyways, to conclude I would say that in the current age we use a very small fraction of our brain hence, it may be true that these worlds are actually intensely integrated but attributing to our current brain usage, we just don’t have the intellect to understand this and as of now, neither does our science. After all, we are still too young <span style="font-size: large;">i</span>n universe and have a lot to explore. ;) </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-32691210228692417922012-09-18T01:05:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:03:16.542+05:30A Quiet Place<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We all are missing something which used to be quite frequent in olden days. We are missing the silence. We are missing a quiet place where you could brainstorm your ideas to get the best one out. You could utilize this quiet place to simply observe the nature and its marvels. Not only that, you could observe the most marvelous creation of the Almighty, you could observe yourself. At times, it's just vital to observe yourself, your thoughts and your aspirations. Knowingly or unknowingly you did tend to observe the fore said items. It used to lead to better understanding and better clarity. Self worth and self knowledge still are the greatest tools to achieve what you truly desire and a quiet place indeed triggers the environment required for such attainment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Interestingly, we may be missing such silence, but we rarely recognize it, why so? Because the entities that have replaced them, in itself are lucrative enough to keep us engaged. They are called as notifications. We keep getting them, in terms of mails, or comments, or trailers, or promos (refer TV).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Think for a while and look around as an observer, only then you will realize that you really are missing them. Just a few minutes everyday at a fixed time, observe yourself. That is all it takes to fill this void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find here, <a href="http://thequietplaceproject.com/thequietplace" target="_blank">A Quiet Place on Internet</a> . Observe 21 Sep as the Quiet Day. Follow the campaign <a href="http://thequietplaceproject.com/thequietday" target="_blank">here.</a> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-33425600013103254392012-09-05T01:28:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:03:32.599+05:30"Post Traumatic Growth"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Recently while
watching one of the TED-TALKS, I came across this word, “post-traumatic
growth”. This is a talk by Janie McGonigal about "Game that can give you 10 extra years of life". </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">(You may see this video below.)</span></span></span></div>
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reaction was that does something like this even exist? Then after some
initial looking up on the net I found out that it really does. Post traumatic
growth in fact is a very inspiring and interesting concept. As the name
suggests it says that any major roadblock in life, a major setback can actually
be used as a springboard to unleash the best qualities and lead better lives.
If a person has successfully overcome a traumatic event in life then he / she
can see his / her life and its purpose in a better way and with more clarity,
and may be that’s why this newly acquired knowledge brings them eternal peace
and perfect clarity which we mostly miss.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">This indeed is true, how many of us actually take a step back for
a minute just to think where exactly we are headed to. Do we take some minutes
off to plan the week? (Even I myself don’t do it, planning to try it after this
post.) This habit not only helps us to keep a track on ourselves but also keeps
our long term goal in check.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Anyways, umm.. returning back to the topic, well frankly speaking
we all need the positive effects which post traumatic growth brings along but
obviously none of us would be interested in the “trauma” coming along. Hence,
the only solution to this is that we need to acquire these qualities which a
person recovering from “trauma” possesses. We need to have more clarity towards
life. This can come by 2-3 short habits such as planning our day, week etc.,
but more importantly we need have a goal, a destination where every step taken
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away and always ignore the evil twin of our friend, it’s known as </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“post-traumatic
disorder”. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I got the picture and this evil twin concept from <a href="http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/post-traumatic-growth-what-research-says-about-why-some-grow-while-others-break-in-the-face-of-adversity/" target="_blank">this link.</a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350363723700117369noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205067781018634661.post-13451084689042430462012-02-26T22:18:00.000+05:302015-03-14T11:03:47.434+05:30The Road To Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we move on with life, we tend to realise that every moment, every fraction of second it is changing it's course. The course of our lives is decided by numerous factors indeed, but I believe somewhere down the line we do play a major role in it's formation. The fact is that, at times we don't even realise that these changes are what later on go on to define what we are or what we become. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Considering that, the phase of change ie the transition is never easy to handle. The reason being, that we get accustomed to what our traits are or what our situation is, and any change in that puts us out of our comfort zone and hence the transition is not easy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, that being said, it is necessary for the caterpillar to bear with the difficulties of the transition to become a beautiful multi-colored butterfly and it is not it's destiny to stay a caterpillar forever. Also, it is vital to adapt ourselves according to the changing situations only then the transition can be complete and only then it's purpose can be accomplished.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, it's time to welcome every small or big change in life..:)</span></div>
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