Eat More or Eat Slow
In most of the aspects in life, we associate enjoyment with more. In this post, I will discuss that this is seldom true. Take food for example. When we are hungry or really like something, we focus on eating it…
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Two Lessons I Learned from My Father
I am a very different person as compared to my father. We have completely different maps on how the world works and how a beautiful life fits into this picture. However, I have learned two lessons from him which over…
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Extending the Life Spans
In a previous post, I mentioned how there is a time to do more of the useful stuff and after rolling the ball according to an essential roadmap, there is a time to do less of the useless stuff. Then…
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Why We Should Avoid Social Media During a Break
Imagine that you live in a developing country and you earn your income through working as a labourer. Your profession requires you to carry heavy stuff from one place to another. Or you are a construction worker who spends his…
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Finding Extra Hours for Personal Growth
My very first article on this website was about the cost of wasting an hour. It turned out that the cost of wasting just one hour a day is around 2 months of our productive life every year. This is…
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Productivity: Do’s vs Dont’s
Productivity is the elusive golden snitch in today’s world. J. K. Rowling describes a seeker’s job in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as follows. This… is the Golden Snitch, and it’s the most important ball of the lot. It’s…
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In Praise of Wasting Time
In his book In Praise of Wasting Time, author and MIT Professor Alan Lightman emphasizes how important it is to waste time these days in terms of allowing our minds to roam freely in any direction which opens the gates…
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On Learning from a Single Source
Eric Hoffer was a fine American philosopher whose quote below resonates really well with the technological era. In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer…
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Man vs Artificial Intelligence (AI)
A hot topic these days is the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the following decades which I have touched briefly in a previous article. Some believe in a Terminator like scenario where machines will be ruling the world while…
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Forming an Opinion
There is one little error I see in reasoning of so many people that I feel the need to mention it here. In fact, I have heard it from famous and well-established thinkers and read it in their best-selling books….
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