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Image source: www.daraz/com   One thing that each of us desires at least once in their life is to find serenity in life, quiet and still moment, or the meaning of life itself. We’ve been constantly asking the questions over our existence, our purpose here on earth, our origin, our ending, and everything looming around it since the dawn of our existence. The answers to these questions are still unclear, vague, exaggeratedly philosophical, and without any concrete evidence to back up. Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed, or any other prophet who has spread their holy words, which they had painstakingly understood through years of constant meditation, is speaking his/her personal experiences only. Our own quest in life must be to learn ourselves: because, what we read is stale knowledge and it can’t give us what we desire. Jiddu Krishnamurti, a widely respected philosopher, has written dozens of books over his life, spoke to thousands of people, and written his personal thoughts in his...

Image Source: www.daraz.com I know, I am right, I’ve set my plans out for the future, I am so glad that I’ve foreclosed my goals so early, and so on. A wunderkind kid might have these kinds of conviction about the life. No wonder people are stressed, and are facing crisis at various stages of life; because, life has a tendency to rock people to the bottom no matter how convinced they are about themselves. The prime thought of having set everything out doesn’t give us space for rethinking our convictions, opinions, and priorities. We are limited to our past convictions, and there is high probability that we might get frustrated at our predicament years after setting out everything out. I, personally, am facing such a dilemma in my life having chosen a preset career path which I am having doubts and concerns over years after such decision. Times are changing rapidly and the decision that we find best might not be so good down the line, and we must revisit our decisions no matter how diff...

Image Source: www.wob.com If one thing that all the religions, that all the philosophers, and that all the great saints teach is that we are the experiencing what we are thinking i.e. the cause of our predicament is no one but ourselves. We are the master of our fate, and we are the captain of our soul. No one ever can dictate us on how to feel, how to act, and how to live. However, we find it difficult to comprehend this basic nature of our being and we get involve in imitating the things people in our surrounding are doing. At the same time, we desire for different result – if we are doing what others are doing, how can we get the different result? Isn’t it funny to even wish for a different result by following the same pattern that everyone is following? David Cameron Gikandi in his book A Happy Pocket Full of Money has tried to provide answers to these questions in great details. Not only he has expressed his opinions and experiences, he has also backed them up by including the ...

  Image Source: www.amazon.com In the present world, where precocious or early bloomers or wunderkind people are revered, it’s getting difficult for rest of the population to cope with the mental stress and higher level of anxiety brought upon by the hype of such early blooming phenomenon. We are in the midst of the chaotic world, over flooded by the information, and living our lives in a rat race which doesn’t seem to end at all. Instead of making up our own mind, knowing ourselves and taking decision solely based on our preferences, we are taking life decisions on the basis of a sense of competition that we experience. This competitive feeling is not our novel feeling; it’s laden upon us by the society and culture that we are living in. We live in the era where people become billionaire even before turning 30, where early achievers are celebrated like they are invincible creatures; magazines and popular cultures focus on 30 under 30 or super teen or similar other taglines. Howeve...

Image Source: www.amazon.com Dictionary defines “Originals” as the earliest form of something, from which copies may be made, or an eccentric or unusual person. We can understand Originals as the person who has characteristics of not – confirming to the crowd. Originals are the persons who think for themselves, and persist on achieving or accomplishing the thing that they have been thinking in ways that seems to be out of the box or not – trending. The most terrifying thing that we ever encounter in our lives is to stand aside from the crowd – to be alone from the crowd. We have a tendency to lean towards the groupthink while solving any problem in a group; however, we might have something radical or out of the norm solution which we vacillate to share with the group out of fear of being marginalized. However simple and uncomplicated it might appear, being Originals is a tough job, and it requires integrity and a culture of constructive criticism. Organizations which foster and encou...

  Image Source: www.amazon.com We have been hearing the following quote all the time, “nobody gives it to you you’ve got to take it”: it has been the favorite Hollywood cliché of all the time and the movies industries have been selling it as the American Dreams. World is mean, we’ve got to be strong and macho, we must avoid having empathy, we need to always act in a tit for tat manner, forgiveness is a weakness, and so on. We have been led to believe that the achievers in every domain of the world are the takers, and or matchers. We must destroy the competition in order to be successful, we must use force to wipe out the competition, and there is no such thing as ‘Win – Win’ negotiation strategy; I strongly believe that these are the vital lies that are prevailing in our world. These are the exact things that might hinder our full fledged success as well. Dr. Adam Grant wrote this book in such a meticulous way that I was actually stunned by the researches he had done in order to ...