Month: November 2021

Money / Wealth

Money is not wealth. Money is a measure of wealth. It is like a ledger that keeps track of one’s wealth. Wealth – is rooted in the concepts of Power & Freedom. Power and control over one’s time. Freedom to choose how and where to live. Freedom to engage with pursuits and passions. Freedom to take a break when one needs to. Power to impact lives and causes. Power and resources to overcome crises. Power of access to scarce resources. Freedom to make some unconstrained choices. Collecting money is like collecting seconds on a watch or inches on a scale. We should also know

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If You Want To See Something New, Walk The Same Path Everyday

We are stuck in the ‘everyday’. Every day looks like every other day; that looks like every other day. And we crave for the new and the exciting. Yet, if we refocus our lens, we can see things that we haven’t seen before – In the same relationship, in the same room, in the same balcony, in the same friend that we talk to every day, in the same bookshelf… Stories lie in the nuances, the edges. The laughter, the smell of fresh laundry, the crust on the cake, the song playing in the neighbours’ house and memories attached to

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Goal-Less

Philosopher Kieran Setiya argues that midlife or any such existential crises can arise because, as we complete our projects, they lose their meaning for us. These projects are telic: they have a goal, and our commitment to this goal makes them meaningful to us. Once we’ve achieved that goal, it loses meaning. We should have goals, as they drive our motivation. But we should also find value in the atelic: activities that don’t have a purpose beyond themselves –going for a run for the sake of it, rather than to win a marathon. Goal works. Goal-Less also works.

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The Shortest Story

You must tell your story. But you have limited real estate. You have been given 140 characters. Yet your story must make sense. Worth an exercise to explore – What’s the shortest set of words that can tell your story? Shorter, Crisper, Clearer. Fewer words. More clarity.

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