From Tony Robbins’s ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’: “How would you drop an egg thruogh a height of four feet, with a floor of concrete below, and still not have it cracked?”
Trivially, we all begin by thinking how to circumvent the hardness of the concrete, or the weakness of the egg. We do not …
When was the last time you were delighted to get something you were ‘supposed’ to? For instance, how many of us would actually delight in receiving breakfast? Not me!
What we do not struggle for, we take as granted — the most fundamental example being our own existence. Rarely would one find somebody so conscientious, he actually …
It happened. Like, two weeks ago. See — that’s how awesomely fast my life is. Hence, I forgot to tell you about it. Now, I’m pretty officially also called tech.head, while Anurag is called Ac. Head. And I’ve actually abandoned most of my anger at that. Here go my “technical” contributions to this …
Know thyself. — Oracle
‘Nuff Said.
For those of you came here to just know the answer, very bluntly put — I don’t know.
That perhaps why I asked the question in the first place. Also because the question troubles me. When I used to do it, I never even thought about it. Just like I never thought about anything I did at …
Oh yes! Fifteen days ago. And not just a random accident. One in which I was hospitalized for three days! And I got to miss all my half-yearlies. Truth be said, I could’ve given the last two HY exams, but why put the effort when I have the option not to!
It …
An opinion of mine:
All opinions are spurious, and delusory. Believe in this opinion of mine.
Have fun dealing with that one!
It seriously pains me, how every body opinionates on every other thing, person, and activity. The worst part perhaps, is how even I, despite being conscious of this terrible habit, fall prone to it often.
I want to …
I registered for this “blog a Penguin India Classic”, got the book, and didn’t manage to complete it for nearly two months. That goes nowhere to say how good or bad the book was, but does go to say how callous, distracted and shameless a person I am.
Well, I finally managed to read …
July 19, 2009 – 7:26 pm
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By Mystic Ranger
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Posted in Life, Philosophy, personal
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Tagged A.N.D Haksar, Board Marks, chauvinistic, Culture, English, Gaining Friends, Hindu, Hitopadesa, Indian, Mitralabha, Narayana, Panchatantra, Peace, Penguin, Penguin India Classics, Sandhi, Sanskrit, Scholarship, Splitting Partners, translated, Vigraha, War
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A story. Yup. That’s all it is. Minus the adjectives.
Life-changing, memorable, and most influential; unforgettable and really thoroughly awesome. Of course it would only be self-flattering to say any such thing on themselves.
It is about a seagull with the name of Jonathan Livingston. I could go about telling you the whole story, considering its just …
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt the world to himself. All progress in the world, therefore, is dependent on the unreasonable man.
–G.B. Shaw
We Indians (yes, call me a racist here, but I still plod on) are not taught this when we are kids. We are told the story of the king.
Once there …
June 29, 2009 – 9:36 am
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By Mystic Ranger
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Posted in Philosophy, personal
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Tagged adapt, adjusting, arrogant, G.B. Shaw, Indians, kings, luxury, Mathematician's Lament, Mathematics, mentality, Paul Lockhart, preventing rape, progress in world, Reasonable man, unreasonable man
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