Do not bury your fears lest they might bury you — One of the best books I read back in 2021, was Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like a Monk’. Ever since I read it, I have been sharing different snippets from different chapters of the book — expanding on the ideas highlighted in them. Coming here now with the third idea, I…

I recall reading about Steve Jobs for the first time when I was 14. …

On New Year’s Eve of 2019, I got a 12-month membership of Audible. I had decided to give myself up to audiobooks after being influenced by my favorite YouTubers then and now (Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, Matt D’Avella, etc) along with the conventional reading I did on my Kindle. …

Recently, I cam across a reference to the book called ‘The Year Of Less’ which helped mentioned a very beautiful idea that could help us take another step towards minimalism in our lives. Lets cut to the chase and discuss it right away. The author mentions the creation of three…

Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like a Monk’ has got me thinking about a lot of things I didn’t care about earlier. Last month’s takeaway helped me broaden my understanding of human values while I was writing the article. There is just so much to process and think about. This time, it’s…

On 29th March 2017, Disney’s Club Penguin servers went offline, 2 months after their excruciating announcement in January about the game being discontinued. …

One of the biggest fears people have, apart from going bankrupt and getting eaten alive by your favourite deadly predator, is the fear of the stage. The fear of public speaking. …

For anyone who has been to amusement parks or huge retail outlets must have experienced the dreaded “waiting queue” where you stand one-behind the other, in anticipation of getting-in and going back to leading your everyday life. …

‘In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.’ — A Hindu Saying that Steve Jobs liked Everything that we are doing at the moment right now or will do in the near future is…

I felt like writing about this as soon as I finished James Clear’s ‘Atomic Habits’. There are some things that you have to write down to remember and I felt this one should be right at the top. …

Most of you might be aware of the difference between appreciation and flattery. Here is a brief description from the book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie: The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from…

2018: When I was working on my 12th Grade CS Project, I was unaware of this term called ‘Premature Optimization’ but I was damn sure of what I was doing with that 1000 line program I had written. I would write each function carefully, then try to run and test…

I finally stumbled upon a technique that can now help you procrastinate less by focusing on what makes you procrastinate in the first place. Quite confusing, but no worries I will explain. I came across this a few days ago in one of Thomas Frank’s YouTube video (by the way…

Try to answer this honestly: the last time you sat down to study or do some work, how many minutes were you able to focus before getting distracted by some external factor (emails, Insta notifications, TV noise, etc)? For most, its somewhere around 15–20 mins. …

It’s not too late, don’t be the Boiling Frog! I came across this term ‘the boiling frog’ (or the boiling frog syndrome) in a book called ‘SuperThinking’. It was quite funny to read about it. …

I first came across these two terms: ‘Novel Upgrades’ and ‘Incremental Upgrades’ in a Tech Review video of the iPhone 11 Pro by one of my favourite YouTubers — Ali Abdaal (You can watch the review on his channel). But we are not here to discuss the iPhone 11 or…

Recently, while I was re-reading Chris Bailey’s ‘The Productivity Project’, I came across this study that felt like a sudden reality check: A recent study from IDC, a U.S. market research company, found that 80 percent of eighteen-to forty-four-year-olds check their smartphones within the first fifteen minutes of waking up. …

From time to time, I have installed (and deleted) Audible on my smartphone and have tried giving audiobooks a try. I have been struggling to listen to some audiobooks but my limited attention span wouldn’t allow me to stay hooked on a book for longer than five minutes! With audiobooks…

So, I recently came across this YouTube video which was titled ‘BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content’. The length of the video made it seem like it was some kind of documentary on books or bookstores and being a book-lover, it didn’t take long…

Now those are really big words in the title up there but their meanings are relatively simpler to understand and I am sure by the end of this post, you might be able to make some really good quick decisions when you have lots of choices in mind. Let’s start…