Category Archives: Philosophy

What gives us more pleasure: the pursuit of of our desires or the attainment of them?

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

Do we value only what we struggle for?

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

Know Thyself

Know thy­self. — Ora­cle
‘Nuff Said.

Why did I learn the Alphabet?

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

The Opinion Paradox

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

Hitopadesa — A Penguin India Classic

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

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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 Art of Adjusting

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

Does History Repeat Itself?

Q. Prompt:
“His­tory repeats itself. This is a tes­ti­mony to the stu­pid­ity of man.”
–Adapted from Edith Hamil­ton
“His­tory does not repeat. It rhymes.”
–Mark Twain
Assign­ment: Does his­tory repeat itself? […] Write an essay.
A. Does His­tory Repeat Itself?
No — in my view, His­tory does not repeat itself. I would con­cur with Mark Twain — ‘It [his­tory] rhymes’.
It has been rec­og­nized since

Find Your Great Work

I believe this goes before the “Eight Irre­sistible Prin­ci­ples of Fun”, but I don’t think it really mat­ters. Its more about what we can imbibe better.

The “Find your Great Work Movie”, again by the same guy who made the last vid — Michael Bun­gay Stainer. Now, ain’t I a fan? Again, the orig­i­nal Flash video