July 2024
The price you pay for doing what everyone else does is getting what everyone else gets.
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I keep posting updates on Watsapp. I keep track of the same using a post each month just for reference.
These are mostly borrowed from other people, I will try to keep references as much as possible.
May 2024
Try to define yourself by what you love and embrace, rather than what you hate and refuse.
April 2024
“To travel means, ultimately, nothing more than coming back home a different person from the one who left.” — PICO IYER
March 2024
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
February 2024
Those who cannot live in harmony with the world are fools though they may be highly educated.
January 2024
We are who we are when nobody else is watching.
September 2023
Worrying is praying for what you dont want.
August 2023
No one is thinking about you very much. So don’t worry about looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or whatever. No one cares.
July 2023
Don’t define your identity by your beliefs. Define your identity by your willingness to learn.
June 2023
Are those things that keep you busy truly important in your life and career?
May 2023
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possib`le. Instead aim for better tasks that you ne...
April 2023
A simple and easy approach to decision-making that prevents us from manipulating ourselves. First, understand the forces at play. Then, understand how you...
March 2023
Don’t believe everything you think.
February 2023
Most people spend the first half of their lives collecting and the second half choosing what to keep. Which lessons learned and pieces of advice do you...
January 2023
New year, new me? Nah, I’m just going to keep on being fabulous and making mistakes like I always do 😜 Happy New Year everyone!
November 2022
“One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” - Paulo Coelho
October 2022
The person who is consistent outperforms the person who is intermittent every time. While inconsistent effort works for some things, for the things that r...
September 2022
“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” — M...
August 2022
Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it’s possible you’ve only ever seen the crap. Go lo...
July 2022
To improve your outcomes in life, respond to the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.
June 2022
Say no (a lot).
May 2022
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” — John Stuart Mill
April 2022
In turning education into a system of mass production we created a superbly democratic system that made the majority of people, and the world as a whole, ...
March 2022
People are much more honest with their actions than their words.
February 2022
“The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it funct...
January 2022
One simple way to unlock your best self is to shape your environment so that your desired behavior is the path of least resistance.
December 2021
“Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment. The world can never own a man who wants nothing.” — Aphorisms for Thirsty Fish
November 2021
While we tell ourselves that the next level is enough, it never is. The next zero in your bank account won’t satisfy you any more than you are now. The ne...
October 2021
“How we spend our time is how we spend our days. How we spend our days is how our life goes. How our life goes determines whether we thought it was worth ...
September 2021
Nothing will change your future trajectory like your habits. While goals rely on extrinsic motivation, habits, once formed, are automatic. They literally ...
August 2021
We rarely do or say something intentionally that surprises us. That’s because we are in intimate contact with the noise in our heads–we spend our days loo...
July 2021
The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend time thinking. Most of us are too busy to think. We have too many meetings. Too many calls. Too ...
June 2021
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be ...
May 2021
When you care more about getting things right than being right, you get better outcomes and you save time and energy.
April 2021
Happiness is not a consumable product. It is not something you find by searching for it. It is a naturally arising byproduct of a fulfilling, well-lived l...
March 2021
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body, ”- Richard Steele.
February 2021
“If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil.” “Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness. Nature follow...
January 2021
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought—they must be earned.”
December 2020
I am so firmly determined, however, to test the constancy of your mind that, drawing from the teachings of great men, I shall give you also a lesson: Set ...
November 2020
While it’s not a principle, I often think of the parable of the Taoist farmer. The Taoist farmer has one horse, and the horse runs off. The villagers lame...