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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
