How To Increase Your Chances of Success
How To Be Industrious
Do you know what the paradox of productivity is? It’s when, by doing more, you actually get less done. We tend to remain busy all day at work because we associate busyness with productivity. Responding to emails and texts, attending extensive discussions over issues that have been discussed many times in the past, sharing information […]
How To Strengthen Your Willpower
Many of us have desires: to have a startup or a YouTube channel, to get rich by investing money, or to go on a vacation. We think about the desire a lot, but never get around to working on it. Or we start, but stop in almost no time. The reason? Overwhelm. We conduct extensive […]
Why Do You Do What You Do?
When Valmiki heard that Hanuman had written a version of the Ramayana, he went to the forest in search of it. There, beside Hanuman on a banana leaf, the sage found the most beautiful rendition of the epic. “Who will read my Ramayana now?”, he wept. Hearing this, Hanuman popped the banana leaf in his […]
Without Uncertainty There Can Be No Growth
People get diagnosed with clinical conditions like PTSD and ADHD. But lately, a trend has begun where people start applying such terms to themselves without medical proof. We’re anxious about the future because we didn’t do well in our exams, but we call it PTSD. Staring at our phones and a lack of exercise has […]
The Easiest Thing To Do
When the government introduced GST, it was criticized for its slipshod implementing. When a food-delivery app wanted to introduce a new delivery system, it was torn to shreds. When a person wants to try something new, her friends give her one hundred reasons why it won’t work. As soon as we even sniff a problem […]
The Problem With Modern Content
Books and articles that educate us are content. Movies that entertain us are content. Art that moves our soul is content. Then why has a lot of modern content become a problem, especially on social media? Because much of it is created not with the aim to share knowledge, but to harvest clicks. By posting […]
You Can’t Drive While Looking in the Rearview Mirror
Your best friend starts hanging out with a different bunch of people. Strained relations with your manager doesn’t let you get a good rating during your appraisal. The philosophies that made you a ton of money in the stock market fail although the market keeps climbing. The common reaction to this would be to fight […]
Be Sturdy, Not Fragile
One noon, a tired Parshurama asked his disciple Karna to bring him a roll of deerskin that he could use as a pillow to sleep on. Karna offered his thighs instead, which Parshurama accepted. While Parshurama slept, a boar-like insect cut through Karna’s thigh. “If I want to stop it,” he thought, “I will have […]
Write a Story Worth Reading
FOMO. Revenge consumption. Survival mode. Quiet quitting. Languishing. These are terms given to describe the emotions or behavior of most of us at one point or another. It’s acceptable; we’re human beings, after all. The trouble begins when we start using them to justify the unproductive things we do. When we start chasing every shiny […]